First Eight Months at Microsoft: Loop in OneNote
As you may already know, I’m a software engineer at Microsoft working on the OneNote team. While I don’t typically write about work, I wanted to finally share that for the past eight months, I’ve been working with my crew to integrate Loop components into OneNote Web.
For those unfamiliar, Loop components are collaborative pieces of content that can be used across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to help facilitate ideation, creation, planning, and more. As for how they integrate into OneNote, users can now create them directly in OneNote via the insert ribbon or by pasting in existing ones. If you’re a programmer like me, I’m sure you’ll love the code block component type! For more about Loop in OneNote, do check out this blog post written by my project manager!
As for why I’m sharing this now, we’ve recently rolled our feature out to 100% GA (general audience) which means that you can now start using Loop components in OneNote Web! Refer to this support article for more information, but note that you’ll need to be logged into your work account and that your organizational admin must not have disabled Loop components. The other purpose of this blog post was to share this personal milestone of having my code out in the world! It really is so cool knowing that real users can now use this feature that I’ve been working on for months. As for what comes next, I’ve actually already started working on my next project: Copilot in OneNote. This one is a bit different in that the feature is already publicly available, but it’s still a new and exciting space to be working in. I know this post was pretty high-level and re-directed you to official articles, but if you are curious do check out this post about how I used OneNote as a student. Despite no longer being a student, I do still use OneNote in my personal life and hope to eventually write a post about that.