Microsoft OneNote
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“once OneNote 2013 hit, I dropped Evernote like a rock in a lake.”
“The OneNote app sync is quick enough that I could type lecture notes on the laptop”
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“I love One Note, use it for work constantly”
“I've tried alternatives, but OneNote has been simple and reliable, it just works everywhere.”
Caveats and dissent
“which is horrible in every other way compared to Obsidian”
“I have tried shared notes in One Note, but as soon as someone else edits something in the same spot, it creates a forked history”
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“OneNote, for instance, has serious delays and glitches when syncing notebooks changed on other machines or web.”
“I really hate onenote”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- How Microsoft Abuses Its Users 2 mentions
- Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor 2 mentions
- Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI 2 mentions
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) 2 mentions
- Show HN: How I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it 1 mention
- Windows 11½ 1 mention
Also written as Microsoft OneNote. Data: microsoft-onenote.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 21
“once even opened Microsoft OneNote”
“my wife refuses to move off of Onenote for our family knowledge management”
“once OneNote 2013 hit, I dropped Evernote like a rock in a lake.”
“I use OneNote on my desktop (copy in the homework problem) and tablet (do the work).”
“I use OneNote and Macromedia Freehand and so forth w/ a stylus”
“which is horrible in every other way compared to Obsidian”
“I don't think it's a drop-in replacement for OneNote”
“OneNote (shared notebook with my non-technical wife that syncs to mobile)”
“it seems to have a bit more learning curve and needs more discipline and structure”
“I have tried shared notes in One Note, but as soon as someone else edits something in the same spot, it creates a forked history”
“OneNote, for instance, has serious delays and glitches when syncing notebooks changed on other machines or web.”
“a simple local only wysiwyg alternative to Onenote”
“The OneNote app sync is quick enough that I could type lecture notes on the laptop”
“OneNote for todos and project planning”
Not only that but Markdown use the conventions people already used in text files (point 3 in the article). People wrote Markdown before Markdown existed, they just formalized it. In fact, I like to write notes and documentation in text form, and then I notice I have been using Markdown all along, so I rename my text file into .md, fix a couple of markers, and now it looks nice on a viewer that supports markdown, and
“I really hate onenote”
“I love One Note, use it for work constantly”
“Onenote is a turd.”
“I've tried alternatives, but OneNote has been simple and reliable, it just works everywhere.”
Weird view on how capitalism works. They raise prices because they (believe they) can and that's all. Prices are not tied to business cost. Even if all datacenters were subsidized by the government, this price rising would still happen. Microsoft is basically a B2B now. Their customers are those who use Team and Exchange. Those customers are locked in and with no real alternative to migrate to.
“none of them are particularly good”