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I used orgmode for a while before importing them all into Microsoft OneNote, haven't looked back

by mmel 11y ago

Tomte 11y ago
OneNote is a bit idiosyncratic and I've had problems using it "right" whenever I tried it. But then I finally read some blog posts and documentation and it clicked. I'm not looking back, either. Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me, and the "killer missing feature" is quick entry and editing on my mobile phone. OneNote does that very, very well.
- MandieD 11y ago
  Mind sharing the links or names of what posts or docs helped you the most with OneNote?
  - Tomte 11y ago
    https://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/msonenote13.pdf https://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/m... was pretty helpful. I don't remember the others.
- 392c91e8165b 11y ago
  >Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me I do live in Emacs, but I prefer the mouse to the keyboard for tasks that can be done both ways, and balked at learning the many dozens of keyboard shortcuts ("keys", in Emacs terminology) org mode wanted me to learn.
walkingolof 11y ago
I took my OneNote stuff into OrgMode because I think there is a higher risk of OneNote being an unreadable format in the future and/or the service being turned off.
- preek 11y ago
  This is exactly why I moved from Evernote to org-mode. I've been a paying user for years with thousands of notes - also important legal documents. Right now, the experience was pretty good, but how will it be in 10-40 years? I'm not going to store everything on paper, as well, just to make sure. The org-mode experience is better, yet totally future proof, because it's just flat text files.
  - rys 11y ago
    How did you handle importing binary data you had in Evernote into org-mode? I've got a bunch of PDFs, images and other non-text data in my Evernote workbooks that I'd need to take care of.
    - preek 11y ago
      This is a very good question! When you come up with a great answer, shoot me a mail! I actually moved everything that is important for the very long time by hand and started creating everything that's new in org-mode. So, yeah, there's still thousands of notes in Evernote and sometime I get back to them, but those times will become fewer and fewer in time. I'd pay for a tool that converts the EN XML to a proper org-mode file. Even better if I could do that on a regular basis, because EN still rocks most for capturing paper into an OCR'ed PDF.
    - MarcScott 11y ago
      I used to keep lots of stuff in Evernote, and when I switched to org-mode, I did an HTML export from Evernote and then wrote an awful Python script to convert the HTML to org-mode. I'm pretty sure all the binary data appears as links in the exported html.
      - preek 11y ago
        Would you be so kind as to share this Python script? I'd be happy to give it a shot^^

I used orgmode for a while before importing them all into Microsoft OneNote, haven't looked back

by mmel 11y ago

I used orgmode for a while before importing them all into Microsoft OneNote, haven't looked back

Tomte 11y ago

OneNote is a bit idiosyncratic and I've had problems using it "right" whenever I tried it. But then I finally read some blog posts and documentation and it clicked. I'm not looking back, either. Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me, and the "killer missing feature" is quick entry and editing on my mobile phone. OneNote does that very, very well.

MandieD 11y ago
Mind sharing the links or names of what posts or docs helped you the most with OneNote?
- Tomte 11y ago
  https://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/msonenote13.pdf https://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/m... was pretty helpful. I don't remember the others.
392c91e8165b 11y ago
>Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me I do live in Emacs, but I prefer the mouse to the keyboard for tasks that can be done both ways, and balked at learning the many dozens of keyboard shortcuts ("keys", in Emacs terminology) org mode wanted me to learn.

walkingolof 11y ago

I took my OneNote stuff into OrgMode because I think there is a higher risk of OneNote being an unreadable format in the future and/or the service being turned off.

preek 11y ago
This is exactly why I moved from Evernote to org-mode. I've been a paying user for years with thousands of notes - also important legal documents. Right now, the experience was pretty good, but how will it be in 10-40 years? I'm not going to store everything on paper, as well, just to make sure. The org-mode experience is better, yet totally future proof, because it's just flat text files.
- rys 11y ago
  How did you handle importing binary data you had in Evernote into org-mode? I've got a bunch of PDFs, images and other non-text data in my Evernote workbooks that I'd need to take care of.
  - preek 11y ago
    This is a very good question! When you come up with a great answer, shoot me a mail! I actually moved everything that is important for the very long time by hand and started creating everything that's new in org-mode. So, yeah, there's still thousands of notes in Evernote and sometime I get back to them, but those times will become fewer and fewer in time. I'd pay for a tool that converts the EN XML to a proper org-mode file. Even better if I could do that on a regular basis, because EN still rocks most for capturing paper into an OCR'ed PDF.
  - MarcScott 11y ago
    I used to keep lots of stuff in Evernote, and when I switched to org-mode, I did an HTML export from Evernote and then wrote an awful Python script to convert the HTML to org-mode. I'm pretty sure all the binary data appears as links in the exported html.
    - preek 11y ago
      Would you be so kind as to share this Python script? I'd be happy to give it a shot^^