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I've been tempted by this, but I have some reservations: 1. Does it work under less-used OSs? Linux/BSD..? 2. Is it a proprietary format? Will you be able to
by howeyc 11y ago
I've been tempted by this, but I have some reservations:
1. Does it work under less-used OSs? Linux/BSD..?
2. Is it a proprietary format? Will you be able to open the file in a decade? My text files will be able to be opened, I'm not sure anyone can still open their MSWorks files.
Maybe I'm crazy to worry about opening these files after a decade since using them probably isn't worth while unless you keep up with it. However, I've got files from the 90's that I've been transitioning from machine-to-machine since storage costs keeps getting cheaper.
- eeZi 11y agoNo, and yes. It's proprietary and Windows/Android/iOS-only.
- falcolas 11y agoToss Mac in there as well: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id784801555?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id78480155...
- PaulHoule 11y agoThat's false, you can download documentation for the OneNote file format here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.1... it is only about 5% of the size of the Adobe PDF specification and I am sure there are corner cases, but it is not too bad.
- eeZi 11y agoI admittedly did not know that they published a specification . It's still a proprietary file format though. Proprietary does not mean "binary and undocumented", it means that it's not an open standard.
- electroly 11y agoWord can still open Works files to this day.