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It’s the usual rename and replace that Microsoft love to do.
“OneNote for Windows 10” is going to be replaced by “OneNote for Windows”
Why they always do the kill, rename and replace instead of just replace with an update? Each kill&replace operation leads to lost users…
Because they are too big to make intelligent decisions.
While OneNote for Windows 10 still has roughly half a year, Microsoft will start nagging users with update prompts much earlier. For starters, in June 2025, Microsoft will slow down the app’s sync performance, thus forcing customers to ditch the old app, especially those using OneNote on multiple devices or for real-time collaboration.
Next, in July 2025, banners will make their way to OneNote for Windows 10 to make sure users are aware of the upcoming end of support. Microsoft says these banners “could impact users workflows.” You do not say, Microsoft.
Wait. You’re gonna throttle them and then wait a month to tell them why you’re throttling them? What?
Feature Notion Joplin Obsidian Evernote Zoho Notebook GoodNotes Zim Wiki Standard Notes MyInfo YouTrack Logseq Cloud Sync Yes Yes Optional (via plugins or sync service) Yes Yes Yes Manual Yes Manual Yes / Self-hosted Optional (self-sync) Offline Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Web cache) Yes Handwriting Support No Limited No Yes Yes Excellent No No No No No Encryption No Yes (E2EE) No (unless encrypted drive) Partial No No No Yes (E2EE) No Depends on hosting Partial (local) Hierarchy Support Yes Yes Yes (Folders + Backlinks) Yes Partial Yes Yes No Yes Yes (Wiki, Issues, Projects) Yes (Outline + Backlinks) Free Version Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes Limited Yes Limited No Yes (up to 10 users) Yes Platform Support Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web iOS, iPadOS, macOS Win, Linux Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web Windows Web, Win, macOS, Linux Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android E: I noticed a couple mistakes. Lemme know if you spot others and I can edit (at time of this writing anyways)
So pleased I dumped Windows and moved to Linux recently.
Everyone should look into dumping “big tech” and move away from Microsoft, Apple and Google. It’s great. And the best part of it, no AI in sight.
Obsidian ftw
Neowin is the web site where their writers can stupidly claim that Qt getting an advertisement module means that KDE will have ads in their apps soon.
Stop linking to them.
Well shit. Time to rip my own files because their migration stuff is going to be all Microsoft proprietary.
Joke is on them, I moved all my notes to Joplin 😎😂
Until they make a proper upgrade to my surface 10, I will have no other choice but to stay on the windows 10 version.
I’m very interested in OneNote alternatives. I’ve been using OneNote for longer than I’ve disliked Microsoft… and I still think it’s a good app. Pretty much the only thing I don’t like about OneNote is the increasingly close integration with Windows accounts. I’d rather my notes were not scanned and uploaded and processed by a US mega-corp…
Anyway, people keep suggesting stuff like Joplin. But that isn’t even vaguely close to OneNote in terms of stylus and inking. For me, inking is the main core feature. And so in terms of alternatives, xournal++ is a closer fit. (xournal++ has essentially no organisational structure for notes; but it is really great for inking.)
What I’d really like is basically the organisational structure of Joplin (or whatever other alternative) + the inking power of xournal++. And ideally being able to import my vast amounts of handwritten OneNote work! – But that last bit is probably too much to ask.
I switched from OneNote a couple of years ago.
For hand writing i suggest using Rnote and for normal keyboard writing I suggest Joplin. Keep it synced using cloud provider or using Syncthing for free.
About organizational structure in Rnote I unfortunatelly recommend just saving files in a structure of folders. Rnote is the most polished alternative to hand-writing capabilities of OneNote I’ve found :c
About importing notes. I don’t think that’s possible but you can surely export them all to PDF from OneNote. I did that when I migrated.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check out Rnote sometime soon.
(As I said, I do like the writing & drawing features of xournal++; and so I’ve been doing a bit of basic file / folder organising with that already; but it certainly isn’t as easily browseable as OneNote.)
I’ve been using Any.type for a bit over a year, and am very happy with it, but I don’t believe it has hand writing support.
There is a free tier that includes 1gb synced storage (optional).
It’s open source. Somewhat similar to Obsidian, but no plugin support that I’m aware of.
I use it all the time
This really pisses me off. I have so much shit in OneNote and use it regularly.
I like Joplin, it could work for me but about 6 months ago I had to quit. My use case is against my s3 instance (not amazon) with 3 devices syncing. It became corrupt everytime.
Has this improved?
Can’t you reinstall it? Or install an older version? Obligatory fuck Microsoft.
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