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Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)
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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm very interested in OneNote alternatives. I've been using OneNote for longer than I've disliked Microsoft... and I still think it's a good app. Pretty much the only thing I don't like about OneNote is the increasingly close integration with Windows accounts. I'd rather my notes were not scanned and uploaded and processed by a US mega-corp...

Anyway, people keep suggesting stuff like Joplin. But that isn't even vaguely close to OneNote in terms of stylus and inking. For me, inking is the main core feature. And so in terms of alternatives, xournal++ is a closer fit. (xournal++ has essentially no organisational structure for notes; but it is really great for inking.)

What I'd really like is basically the organisational structure of Joplin (or whatever other alternative) + the inking power of xournal++. And ideally being able to import my vast amounts of handwritten OneNote work! -- But that last bit is probably too much to ask.

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Until they make a proper upgrade to my surface 10, I will have no other choice but to stay on the windows 10 version.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

clears throat

Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.

Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:

Nobara:

  • Based on fedora
  • Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
  • Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that's the project done, this is not in the Pros section.

BlissOS:

  • for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
  • immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
  • seems fairly mature and robust, I don't know for a fact as I haven't used it

Gentoo Surface:

  • for when you want to put a bit more effort in
  • the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
  • FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN

These were the really easy to find options. There's absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in...but that's not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.

I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don't 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn't like to hibernate, and doesn't have working cameras atm.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't really solve my OneNote problem, as I run it on no fewer than 7 macOS, windows, iOS, and android devices.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It's built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you'd like to fully tell M$ to get fucked....I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I'm fairly fluent in Linux systems....but by no means a "Wizard", and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.

There's other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps....

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[–] bestbry@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Joke is on them, I moved all my notes to Joplin 😎😂

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I use it all the time

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyong recommending Obsidian in the comments, where are Logseq users?

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't you reinstall it? Or install an older version? Obligatory fuck Microsoft.

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