OneNote for Windows 10 will lose support on October 14, 2025. Users are urged to switch to OneNote on Microsoft 365 as soon as possible. A delayed switchover can lead to slower synchronization and regular notifications from Microsoft.
The Windows 10 UWP app. The Office 2016 desktop Onenote isn’t going anywhere (yet).
OneNote for office 2016 was a brilliant piece of software (for once). Then they gutted it out, moved it to the cloud and forced you to use the crappy win10 version.
That’s more or less the time I switched my notes to Notion (first), then to Obsidian.
OneNote was definitely one of the apps of all time
What’s up Joplin gang!
I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.
Do what I did a few months back and switch to Obsidian.
Especially if you write any code. It’s way better for that.
You will need to either
- Pay for their sync at $5/m (hugely overpriced imo)
- Use your own sync solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, Resilio Sync or Syncthing.
This. Your data is stored in .md text files so even if Obidian somehow stopped being the best your data is so easy to move around.
Also add to your list mega.nz works for syncing Obsidian across many systems.
Or just push your entire vault to github or some other git host and then push and pull commits using the Git plug-in from the Obsidian community store. Also I wouldn’t mind paying a subscription for syncing, you can’t expect people to keep working on something for free, if I like a tool and I want it to stick around and keep getting updates, I will pay for it. It’s just that bloody apple won’t allow the Obsidian sync to work on the iPhone without moving your entire vault to Apple Icloud and I’m not doing that, once I switch back to android I’ll start paying for the sync subscription
I loved OneNote as a student. It still is pretty unmatched if you want to take pen enabled notes IMO. I would download lecture slides and annotate them, also recording the prof. So I could highlight my annotations later and see what the professor said! Pretty slick and haven’t found anything comparable since. But I don’t need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin
No, The OneNote UWP app is going away (“OneNote for Windows 10”), OneNote itself is still a part of office & still maintained
Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)
I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.
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If there’s one type of app with no shortage of options, it’s notes apps. Just look at the other responses here I’m sure there are dozens being evangelized already.
I very much doubt that this alone will push users onto Microsoft 365, like MS seems to be hoping it will.
Would you like to die in the app? How about the desktop? In a browser? In teams? In that other shit website Microsoft has …SharePoint! How about saving into one drive??? Nah! Close biatch! Choose!
Frankly they should have nuked “OneNote for Windows 10” long ago and quietly replaced it with the Office version. Or better yet, not launch a separate version to begin with under the same name. But this is Microsoft, having multiple apps with the same name is just the norm.
