OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.
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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.
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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.
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But I don't need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin
My first thought reading this was, “Why does moving to Joplin, MO have anything to do with note-taking?”
It's a great open source note app! I've been using it a couple years and like it a lot
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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
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i've had a it of trouble figuring out how to move my stuff over and still can't. do you know how?
I didn't attempt to import my onenote notes to Joplin, since they were old class notes and handwritten, which Joplin doesn't handle that well yet (though they do have a new drawing capability). Googling around, it looked like there are some tools, and some that they're actively working on https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/onenote-importer/37720/7
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There are boatloads of various note-taking apps, both open-source and not, that are much better than OneNote. Take a look at https://noteapps.info/features, where you can browse by specific features you're interested in. I've just recently switched from running DokuWiki for my homelab documentation to Joplin and I'm really loving it so far (I've setup sync to Hetzner's S3 service).
The only thing that's been keeping me on OneNote is the handwriting stuff. I keep trying to move to Obsidian cause I like it but I take notes on my iPad constantly. As much or more than on my computer.
And I really like how OneNote will take my chicken scratch and use OCR to turn it into actual text.
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I fucking hate how Microsoft makes several different versions of OneNote, Teams, Outlook, MS accounts, etc. and then gives them the same name, and a very similar icon.
I can't wrap my head around who thought it was a good idea to have two Teams apps installed, with almost identical icons, and if you log into the personal Teams with an enterprise account or vice versa, you just get an error message.Its a pain in the fucking ass when managing Macs on an MDM and you want specific icons in the dock. Teams would update and change the name but the profile would point to the now non existent old name and then there would just be a “?” Users would think they no longer have that application on their device even though you could access perfectly fine from launchpad or through the applications alias
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Sometimes meetings would be on the outlook calendar and not on the teams calendar or vice verse and then theres also shifts which is only viewable through teams and it makes me want to pull my hair out
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Its a pain in the fucking ass when managing Macs on an MDM and you want specific icons in the dock. Teams would update and change the name but the profile would point to the now non existent old name and then there would just be a “?” Users would think they no longer have that application on their device even though you could access perfectly fine from launchpad or through the applications alias
You've regularly got the same issue on Windows, amazingly.
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The only thing that's been keeping me on OneNote is the handwriting stuff. I keep trying to move to Obsidian cause I like it but I take notes on my iPad constantly. As much or more than on my computer.
And I really like how OneNote will take my chicken scratch and use OCR to turn it into actual text.
I can understand that. Maybe check the list I noted above, I’m pretty sure quite a few can do handwriting recognition (doesn’t the iPad’s native handwriting recognition work with Obsidian?). Though I understand the ‘don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’ inclination as well…
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There are boatloads of various note-taking apps, both open-source and not, that are much better than OneNote. Take a look at https://noteapps.info/features, where you can browse by specific features you're interested in. I've just recently switched from running DokuWiki for my homelab documentation to Joplin and I'm really loving it so far (I've setup sync to Hetzner's S3 service).
Thanks for the link.
I just setup joplin and joplin server.I migrated all my old samsung notes to joplin.
Sadly I still can't replace OneNote. There is no open source alternative for an infinite canvas with proper custom server based sync that helps to resolve conflicts. Logseq looks pretty good but the server sync implementation is not open source.
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