OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.
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But how? And why? Where’s the profit in that?
You have to have redundant software in order to operate. More versions is more purchase transactions. End user hostile garbage.
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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.
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Every time I talk to my mom about her work with Microsoft products I'm dumbfounded "you have 3 tools from the same author and none of them interact with each other in any meaningful way but you have to use all 3 to get anything done?"
In order to resolve a concern, she has to check teams for the message to check her outlook for the email which will link to the ticket on Azure... And this isn't even an uncommon workflow lmao
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What plugin is it? Been using Obsidian as well since it's the best replacement I've found that also has easy self hosted syncing (Remotely plugin via WebDAV)
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Eww no, Teams is a Slack like work chat app, Outlook is an email client and email is the worst thing to happen to corporate communication, email is only good for company wide announcements. The threaded view of a email chat looks idiotic, I've never met someone over the age of 40 who knows how to find an old email with attachments, so they keep asking you to email them the same files as attachments over and over again, it's slow as he'll, nothings more excruciating than the silence where you are on a meeting someone sends a email to someone else and now everyone has to wait for the email to arrive in the inbox. If it's not instant messaging I dont want it, "Yours sincerely" has no place in 2025 for me
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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.
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
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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.Also it seems like every one note version is good at some task or aähas access to formatting/organization options that others can only view.
I wish there was an open source solution in a similar manner to immich (quality and organization) wise.
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I can't imagine OneNote will ever disappear. It's ingrained in a lot of businesses. The under-featured UWP on the other hand is no loss.
Yeah but I think the UWP version was the only version that didn't have the stupid bug where your handwritten notes would move around randomly after you exited the notebook sometimes. Idk if they fixed that but last time I checked it was a very old bug known to exist in the other version and only work in that version.
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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.
I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.
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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.
OneNote was definitely one of the apps of all time
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OneNote was definitely one of the apps of all time
Oh definitely. It was an app that was installed on my computer.
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Every time I talk to my mom about her work with Microsoft products I'm dumbfounded "you have 3 tools from the same author and none of them interact with each other in any meaningful way but you have to use all 3 to get anything done?"
In order to resolve a concern, she has to check teams for the message to check her outlook for the email which will link to the ticket on Azure... And this isn't even an uncommon workflow lmao
Oh it gets better than that.
There are two calendars, one in outlook and another one in teams. They don't work the same way. If you have a teams meeting you need to attend you have to open that meeting in the teams calendar. Opening it up in the outlook calendar will just show the time but won't connect you to the call.
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Eww no, Teams is a Slack like work chat app, Outlook is an email client and email is the worst thing to happen to corporate communication, email is only good for company wide announcements. The threaded view of a email chat looks idiotic, I've never met someone over the age of 40 who knows how to find an old email with attachments, so they keep asking you to email them the same files as attachments over and over again, it's slow as he'll, nothings more excruciating than the silence where you are on a meeting someone sends a email to someone else and now everyone has to wait for the email to arrive in the inbox. If it's not instant messaging I dont want it, "Yours sincerely" has no place in 2025 for me
It's often the only way for intercompany communication. Even if both companies use teams the various it departments have to do some incantation in order to make them talk to each other.
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Oh it gets better than that.
There are two calendars, one in outlook and another one in teams. They don't work the same way. If you have a teams meeting you need to attend you have to open that meeting in the teams calendar. Opening it up in the outlook calendar will just show the time but won't connect you to the call.
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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.
Good. My ex-boss had one Gigabytes sized OneNote file, where all team-meetings got noted down and kept there forever. I hope it has finally flown around his ears since i left.
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Also it seems like every one note version is good at some task or aähas access to formatting/organization options that others can only view.
I wish there was an open source solution in a similar manner to immich (quality and organization) wise.
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).
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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.
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!
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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.
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 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
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?”
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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.
