Microsoft OneNote

Across 378 comments (top 25 shown, heavily HackerNews/Lemmy tech users), OneNote is framed as 'the least terrible alternative' after Evernote's decline — a daily driver people tolerate rather than love. The single most-upvoted comment (+219, Lemmy) isn't about features at all: it mocks Microsoft for shipping two apps both named OneNote with divergent capabilities. Recurring threads: (1) Format lock-in — multiple HN commenters avoid OneNote because notes live in a 'binary, proprietary format that's not future-proof'; one still reads ASCII files from the early 90s but not old MSWorks/Corel files, and deliberately migrates personal data to plain-text formats. (2) Navigation debt — a self-described OneNote lover (+92, HN) reports that beyond ~8 tabs (2-3 on mobile) finding content becomes 'a pain in the ass', with pages overflowing into scrolling; tags are called half-baked. (3) Forced cloud — on OS X and the Windows 10 'Metro' app you cannot create a local notebook; offline mode writes to an ever-growing temp file; only the full OneNote 2016 via Office 365 could save to a local directory. (4) Sync is split — one user finds notebook sync 'pretty reliable in partially connected scenarios' (phone + laptop edits eventually merging), but the OneNote Clipper experience shows sync 'sometimes does not work and there's no way to see why' on image-heavy pages, and Clipper cannot create new sections. (5) Exit traffic — the +105 Lemmy comment recommends Notesnook specifically because it ships a OneNote importer, framing ten years on OneNote as a search for something better. What keeps people in: Office Lens integration (glare-reduced whiteboard captures saved straight into a notebook page) and Clipper-based bookmark archiving, which is 'in theory awesome'. Net: a power user base that is functionally dependent but ideologically itchy.

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