MicrosoftI try to take the sunny view. Using OneNote for Windows 10 does not cause actual pain, so I take that as a positive. It is getting more capable, gradually. I'm okay with the UI. Not as polished and professional as the Office 2016 version, but okay, fine. Fine. Whatever.
I also have some sympathy for the Windows developers. The vitriol that spills forth on user boards! It's no wonder they keep their distance. I half suspect that some of the stuff posted here gets used at office parties, if only to help them use laughter to cope.
Still, there is an interesting business-guru book to be written about a global tech company prying loose a little-known, less-promoted tool from the hands of a devoted band of power users. Chapter 1 might be: why the company created such a capable, elegant and powerful tool and kept it a secret, then gave it away for free. Chapter 2 might be: Why the company didn't just wrap a new skin on all the underlying functionality and call it good. Chapter 3: Why, you naive simpleton, you have no idea how impossible your selfish wish is to accommodate on a mobile platform. Let us lecture to you why you will love this new version of a multi-functional organizational tool that you will enjoy managing with your greasy, fat thumbs on a 4.5-inch screen, and which will accomplish 1/5 of the tasks the previous version accomplished.
I was an Evernote user before I discovered the unpromoted, hidden-under-the-hood OneNote. OneNote has become the Central Administration Desk of all my work. I have delighted in each new thing I discovered it could do.
Good times, good times.
I'm off to install Joplin. It will run on my Linux machine, too.
