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Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everythi

Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everything in and forget about it? OneNote does the job. Windows and iOS supported. Plays well with my handwriting. Rest of platforms haven’t checked.

reitanqild 7y ago
> With tagging. Actually, tagging is one of the things OneNote should do better. It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. One of the things that really annoys me about OneNote (I'm a big fan of it though.)
- BlueDingo 7y ago
  Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability. It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.
  - reitanqild 7y ago
    I'll add two more things: - internal links doesn't work on mobile. - local shared folder mode doesn't work in later versions. This was brilliant for places that has restrictions on what they can upload to the cloud. OneNote could often replace internal wikis for smaller companies (in some areas it was even better) but now that becomes less viable as OneNote for desktop gets older.
- reificator 7y ago
  > It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. It does support custom tags. I don't think there's a way to add custom icons, but custom tags are definitely a thing.

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Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everythi

by vmurthy 7y ago

reitanqild 7y ago
> With tagging. Actually, tagging is one of the things OneNote should do better. It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. One of the things that really annoys me about OneNote (I'm a big fan of it though.)
- BlueDingo 7y ago
  Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability. It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.
  - reitanqild 7y ago
    I'll add two more things: - internal links doesn't work on mobile. - local shared folder mode doesn't work in later versions. This was brilliant for places that has restrictions on what they can upload to the cloud. OneNote could often replace internal wikis for smaller companies (in some areas it was even better) but now that becomes less viable as OneNote for desktop gets older.
- reificator 7y ago
  > It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. It does support custom tags. I don't think there's a way to add custom icons, but custom tags are definitely a thing.