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The best version of OneNote on Windows

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William Devereux
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Apr 18, 2018
The below article is out of date as of Nov 4 th 2019. Please check out this article for the latest OneNote announcement.   We’re incredibly lucky to have millions of passionate OneNote users aro...
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Doug Walsh"options are slim and we can only hope MS adds features back."

I respect Microsoft's decision.  The loss of the desktop software is really a non-issue.  It is the lack of support for the features we need that is the problem.  This underlines the need for a different software paradigm, with a longer and wider range of support.  Open source provides that.

I'm not talking about switching to Linux or whatever.  Plenty of software is cross platform and includes Windows.  What would be nice is that if Microsoft has committed itself to abandoning the desktop version of OneNote that it consider releasing the source code so that the community could maintain it for its users indefinitely.

Since OneNote essentially functions as a personal note/wiki, we are not without some alternatives. None are quite as convenient for Windows users, as OneNote, but since some are open source, the support is basically indefinite.  I'm looking at Zim for Windows (which I have used on Linux before now).