That stupid placement thing is the "feature" I hate the most about onenote. Sometimes that is a benefit and the kind of note you'd want to make. But this seems like an easy fix of having two note types and being able to pick a global option of which way to default, and giving a drop-down option of what kind of note you wish to create if you wanted a one-off different than the default . Having it always be up to the user to place text frame objects is annoying when most of the time generic text notes is what you want.

I personally don't care for the skeuomorphic organization of notebooks, tabs, and pages. But maybe that's just me :)

Yes and if you type one backspace too many it will delete the whole box and place it at an off-centre location when you click to make a new one.

There's a workaround though: Click on the title and then press enter and it'll create one again in the right spot :)

But yeah OneNote is bloated, slow, has the typical MS UI boneheadedness... But it's what I have to work with at work :'(

As much as I hate onenote, the ease of just hitting [super]+N to start a quick note is the lowest friction way to go from 'i need to write' to 'i am writing'. I've tried a few of the competitors but I guess I found my killer feature.

exact reason why I moved from Onenote to Typora (for Mac) and Notability (for Ipad)