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Moving from Evernote to Onenote - it seems like I really need to put everything in one huge Onenote
If it helps, I wrote a series of blog posts about my experience making the move:
https://paulzimmer.dreamhosters.com/blog/2018/01/07/evernote-to-onenote-why/
Bottom line: I'm very happy I made the switch. I find the essentially-unlimited hierarchy in Onenote to be a big advantage. The search is better as well. I never miss Evernote.
Did Evernote for Windows ever get dark mode?
Paul_Zimmer Interesting blog. The dark mode never made my top 500 so, sorry, I never noticed as whether it was an option on EN version 10 - in my truly short and disastrous experience. I am working with EN's tech team to see if they can locate my missing notes. They asked for the log files, and after looking at the errors listed, I feel that I may have more problem than my missing 33 notes!
My problem moving to ON is what am I going to do about the EN tags - I have around 12,000 notes in a genealogy notebook with maybe 20 to 30,000 tags. Example a UK 1911 census where everyone in the family is tagged - tags of each person - maybe a dozen in a family - a tag for 1911 census.
As I typed this, I received a reply from EN technical team regarding my missing notes- in short another reason to move!
It sounds like you're really using the tags. Tags are more flexible than hierarchy, but most people never use the flexibility. It sounds like you do.
I know there's been talk about Onenote getting genuine tags, but I'm not sure what the status is.
BTW, MS's workaround is to translate the tags to hash strings ("#foobar") when it imports from EN. A bit clumsy, but you can search by the hash name like a tag. It would be more difficult to maintain, of course (you'd probably end up maintaining a separate list-of-tags to keep track of them), but it could work for you.