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(Sorry, this turned into a little bit of a rant) I love OneNote. Big problem though is the organization. Once you get more than, say, 8 tabs (more like 2-3 on
by BinaryIdiot 11y ago
(Sorry, this turned into a little bit of a rant)
I love OneNote. Big problem though is the organization. Once you get more than, say, 8 tabs (more like 2-3 on mobile) it's a pain in the ass to find the others. Sure you can organize them so maybe nest them but eventually you're either going to run into having too many tabs in one place or too many pages in another (on my computer's resolution having about 20 pages under a tab and now I have to scroll which is a huge pain in the ass). Tags are half assed because you can't organize around them only search.
Honestly I tried making Evernote, OneNote and Google Drive my go-to places for notes. But I keep running into two issues:
1. I want my notes and documents to be in the same place. In fact many notes turn into documents and sometimes vice versa. The definition of either one is so blurred to me right now that I end up not doing anything because I can't decide if something is a note or document.
2. Organization is really freaking important. Google Drive can work well for this (to a degree; it takes forever to open something nested though because the UI is far slower than anything native) but OneNote just isn't good enough. Evernote is okay as I would tag everything but even sub tags are wonky; at least last time I used it I couldn't search for a parent tag and get the children. Plus I've lost data with Evernote before so I can't go back to that.
I started picking up writing a little side project and decided to use GitLab + Markdown for this. So far it's actually not that bad but I miss spell checking and easy mobile access. Sure I found an app that let's me edit the markdown on my phone but it's a pain in the ass. Worst I can't embed multimedia and it's not easy to use in this regard anyway.
I need something that's going to be reliable and around for along time too so I usually steer clear of the very new start-ups; I don't want to invest putting my hundreds of notes and documents into the thing only to have them go bankrupt or pivot months later. I'm thinking about trying Microsoft Office 365 next using it in much the same way as Google Drive but this time I can open stuff in the native apps.
- chadgeidel 11y agoI've got multiple notebooks, each with a few tabs (each tab has several pages). I'm not sure if that organizational structure will work for you.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoI've done it but as time goes on too many tabs or the list of pages (which are in the wrong order, in my opinion since they show oldest first) just end up being hard to navigate and I have to figure out a way to reorganize or just deal with it. On mobile, even on my iPhone 6+ more than just a couple of tabs is just annoying to deal with. All in my opinion of course. It's a solid product I just can't organize it well I guess.
- vonklaus 11y agoI just got a laptop that is about 2 years old and upgraded it to windows 10. I primarily use mac, and windows 8 is shit. Windows 10 looks awesome and I am excited to try one note. I didn't even delete internet explorer. Microsoft is competing and the effort shows. Mostly, i have heard awesome stuff about onenote, and notes are the shittiest part of my workflow. Markdown support sounds awesome as a default feature, i hatenot having this in notes.app. Excited
- killerpopiller 11y agoI really like OneNote and use it as professionally but I wish the Mac/iOS-Versions wouldn't be that slimmed down featurewise..The MS Original is so powerfull, it's a pitty we Mac users are kept out. Put your documents in the notes, use the search function and order your tabs and pages. But I apreciate the solid sync that much I trust MS with my files unlike evernote
- rabboRubble 11y agoI got around the tab issue by knowing Chinese. My longest tab name length is 3. Everything else is 2. Doesn't help you much I'm sure (although you could try things like TD for To Do) but I'm quite pleased with the solution! 計畫, 家服, etc.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoThat's quite clever! Yeah doesn't directly help me but I'll think about the abbreviations as that's not a bad idea.
- ng-vu 11y agoHi, we are building an application that do exactly what you said: Writing notes and later turn into documents. It works like Workflowy plus you can write long documents with code and Markdown format. You can share and edit these documents in realtime with others. It also has desktop and mobile apps for offline access.