By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator

Box Notes is an easy-to-use document creation tool built natively in Box and available to all Box users With Box Notes, you can quickly take notes, share ideas and collaborate in real-time with your team—all without leaving Box. The notes are web-based documents and do not require any other software in order to create, view or edit.

If you have never created a Box Note before, simply select New Box Note from the initial drop-down menu next to Upload or select the Box Note button (see below).

Box Notes was updated last week to include three new main features:

1) The ability to insert tables into a Boxnote
2) The ability to insert images that are housed outside of Box. Previously you could insert an image that was stored elsewhere in Box. Now if the image is accessible on the Internet, you can insert that image in your Boxnote.

(You’ll find icons for these two features at the top center of each Boxnote)

3) Versioning is now enabled for Boxnotes. New versions are automatically created roughly every five minutes. You can view who has made changes and you can revert to older versions.