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> - good luck to migrate somewhere else (I already experienced it with a colleague that left the company and had his entire knowledge base in there ...) That's

> - good luck to migrate somewhere else (I already experienced it with a colleague that left the company and had his entire knowledge base in there ...) That's not a real problem, you can export onenote to many other doc formats. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/22679/beginner-save-your-onenote-2010-docs-to-different-file-formats/ https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/22679/beginner-save-your-one...

crispinb 9y ago
> That's not a real problem, you can export onenote to many other doc formats Oh it's a real problem alright. Having used many notes apps & formats over the years, I've been burned by this notion too many times to ever fall for it again. Exporting is only a practical means of migrating sizeable note collections if the export and subsequent import into another system can be done with high fidelity for both content and metadata. This is extremely rare. In practice, the exported version nearly always requires an amount of reorganisation work that's impractical if you have years' worth of notes. I'll never again use notes software that uses an opaque storage format. In a way I regret this, as it precludes Onenote, Evernote etc, which do have their advantages (no note app I've tried has ever had as nice a basic canvas as Onenote, for example). But longevity and cross-platform availability are the keys for me.
mickael-kerjean 9y ago
None of the export option are grepable. In 2018, it's a nice touch to be able to export your note making it discoverable and searchable for anybody in the team (even if they don't use your note system). I would have love to put my colleague note on our internal slack, the html export was the closest thing I could use but in practise the generate code is so crapy that it's wasn't possible without spending a lot of time cleaning up the mess and nobody were able to properly find something in his many years worth of internal knowledge base.
- lazyasciiart 9y ago
  Seriously? If you can't do all that with a .docx file then you might want to branch out of your .txt comfort zone a little more often.
  - mickael-kerjean 9y ago
    My colleague many years worth of knowledge base didn't really fit in a .docx that can be shared and used among all the coworkers in something like slack. I'm not talking about just a few pages, but literally book worth of internal knowledge.
    - lazyasciiart 8y ago
      Wow, apparently you really didn't know that you can export from .docx to text or html. Well, the good news is that you could export from OneNote to .docx to text or html, and now you can finally use your colleague's notes again in slack.

crispinb 9y ago

> That's not a real problem, you can export onenote to many other doc formats Oh it's a real problem alright. Having used many notes apps & formats over the years, I've been burned by this notion too many times to ever fall for it again. Exporting is only a practical means of migrating sizeable note collections if the export and subsequent import into another system can be done with high fidelity for both content and metadata. This is extremely rare. In practice, the exported version nearly always requires an amount of reorganisation work that's impractical if you have years' worth of notes. I'll never again use notes software that uses an opaque storage format. In a way I regret this, as it precludes Onenote, Evernote etc, which do have their advantages (no note app I've tried has ever had as nice a basic canvas as Onenote, for example). But longevity and cross-platform availability are the keys for me.

mickael-kerjean 9y ago

None of the export option are grepable. In 2018, it's a nice touch to be able to export your note making it discoverable and searchable for anybody in the team (even if they don't use your note system). I would have love to put my colleague note on our internal slack, the html export was the closest thing I could use but in practise the generate code is so crapy that it's wasn't possible without spending a lot of time cleaning up the mess and nobody were able to properly find something in his many years worth of internal knowledge base.

lazyasciiart 9y ago
Seriously? If you can't do all that with a .docx file then you might want to branch out of your .txt comfort zone a little more often.
- mickael-kerjean 9y ago
  My colleague many years worth of knowledge base didn't really fit in a .docx that can be shared and used among all the coworkers in something like slack. I'm not talking about just a few pages, but literally book worth of internal knowledge.
  - lazyasciiart 8y ago
    Wow, apparently you really didn't know that you can export from .docx to text or html. Well, the good news is that you could export from OneNote to .docx to text or html, and now you can finally use your colleague's notes again in slack.