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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The Windows 10 UWP app. The Office 2016 desktop Onenote isn’t going anywhere (yet).
OneNote for office 2016 was a brilliant piece of software (for once). Then they gutted it out, moved it to the cloud and forced you to use the crappy win10 version.
That’s more or less the time I switched my notes to Notion (first), then to Obsidian.
or the MS 365 version for that matter
What’s up Joplin gang!
Joplin is nice and what I use currently. I came across obsidian the other day which I found a plugin that makes it function more like OneNote. Only issue is the sync as far as I can tell is subscriptin based. I imagine a plugin exists for that but haven’t looked yet.
I use both Dropbox and iCloud to sync Obsidian vaults and have no issues. No need to pay their subscription in my experience.
I use syncthing with obsidian, and save my files in a cloud synced folder on my desktop. Free sync across all my devices, plus easy cloud backups.
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)
Its a community plugin called CardNote. You can find it in the settings menu.
OneNote was definitely one of the apps of all time
Oh definitely. It was an app that was installed on my computer.
A long time ago I started a one note.
Then I thought "what happens when they discontinue this? How will I make use of the file?
Idk if you can export one notes and keep the organization, etc intact but I’m glad I didn’t keep using it back then.
I can’t imagine OneNote will ever disappear. It’s ingrained in a lot of businesses. The under-featured UWP app on the other hand is no loss.
Ah, gotcha. I don’t know what UWP means. I only read the headline of this one, I blame that.
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.
No, The OneNote UWP app is going away (“OneNote for Windows 10”), OneNote itself is still a part of office & still maintained
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.
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. Also I wouldn’t mind paying a subscription for syncing, you can’t expect people to keep working on something for free, if I like a tool and I want it to stick around and keep getting updates, I will pay for it. It’s just that bloody apple won’t allow the Obsidian sync to work on the iPhone without moving your entire vault to Apple Icloud and I’m not doing that, once I switch back to android I’ll start paying for the sync subscription
I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.
Frankly they should have nuked “OneNote for Windows 10” long ago and quietly replaced it with the Office version. Or better yet, not launch a separate version to begin with under the same name. But this is Microsoft, having multiple apps with the same name is just the norm.
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?”
It’s a great open source note app! I’ve been using it a couple years and like it a lot
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
Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)
I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.
good
Ha, my former employer stored everything in OneNote. It was a dirty CRM, asset db and documentation system for them.
I told em it was a bad plan. (non-365, too cheap for it)
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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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.
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.
