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Show HN: owo – OneNote to Plain Text
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- _8j50 4y agoKind Author, this is marvelous and keep up the good work. OneNote manages to terribly botch just about every attempt to export note books in an acceptable format (as in not ugly).
- p2hari 4y agoThanks very much. Will test it out.
- encryptluks2 4y agoThis is great to help get out of OneBloat. I feel bad for the people that seriously committed to it. Hopefully it'll be a good lesson about why the markdown approach is so much smoother than a proprietary format.
- iammjm 4y agoAn unlimited canvas where you can put all sorts of data types such as text, formatted text, handwritten notes, pictures, pdf printouts, tables, lists, links, videos; synced on all of your devices; accessible anywhere, with real-time collaboration for multiple users... truly terrible stuff
- paule89 4y agoTerrible is the following: Syncing performance. It either doesn't or far too late. Although the blank canvas is great, if you want to just add something onto my notes i have to select a specific space instead of just appending at the end. But yes all that supported stuff is great, but man those things at the top. Dealbreakers.
- dotancohen 4y ago"Unlimited" in this sense sounds to me like "Untyped", you can invoke it with unlimited datatypes! That might be nice for read-only notes, but for notes that I'm going to read sometime down the line, I need structure. Org-mode is great that it enables both structure and free form. And once one gets in the habit of enforcing on himself structure, his notes become clearer to himself months or years down the line when he rereads them.
- slightwinder 4y agoStructure is where structure was made. You can easily make a mess in org-mode/markdown too. Structure does not come from the tool in that space.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoVery true. I have been helping others with the philosophy of managing, linking, and thinking in their own ways instead of always hoping that a tool being the solution. Once you are clear with the general idea of how things are, any appropriate tool should be enough or good enough that you are not lost when the tool is taken away. For instance, I have been sent many a Mindmaps for the sake of the name exported from tools but just branches of terms which would have been better off as a list. Recently, I have been teaching my daughter the idea and the art of taking notes. She is allowed to use any tools she like to try out. I have so far told her about Obsidian, VSCode, and Sublime Text. Of course, Apple Notes is there too.
- dotancohen 4y agoHow old is she? I've been considering teaching my 15 year old org-mode.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoShe is 13.
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
- Fnoord 4y agoCould this be added to Pandoc (perhaps export only)?
- anentropic 4y agoDoes anyone know if there's a tool like this that works on macos?
- migro23 4y agoThanks, all my college notes are in onenote and I would love to get them out of there. Ill give it a shot.
- shantnutiwari 4y agoowo -- the naming is a bit unfortunate! (if you dont know, owo is a nsfw term)
- kataklasm 4y agoIt isn't though? It's just another emoticon, like : ) or :D owo is an expression of suprise. o's represent the eyes, w the nose. Nothing nsfw/sexual about it at all.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoLook it up. In the context of sex work, it apparently refers to unsafe oral sex.
- formerly_proven 4y agoHow many uses of OwO are in the context of sex work? 0.001%?
- some_furry 4y agoNo, it's a Furry emote. OwO is a :3 face, with O_O eyes.
- Fnoord 4y agouwu or UwU denotes (AFAIK) the exterior of the human female reproductive system. I didn't know about owo or OwO. Looks like an owl to me. On second thought, so does uwu or UwU.
- NylaTheWolf 4y agoWait what??? uwu is just a cutesy face. It, as well as owo, is mostly associated with furries (and apparently the anime community too).
- Fnoord 4y ago
- Brajeshwar 4y agoDue to anecdotal experience, I will never go back to anything that has their format without the ability to let my notes be or be exported. I was an early Evernote[1] user and Prime/Pro subscribe for quite many years. We even used it for team collaboration on documents. Unfortunately, I had to leave it like everyone else and have gone all plain-text (sometimes, spiced with MarkDown here and there when needed). Now, any tool should be a wrapper on top and should leave no damaging changes -- the best I found so far being Obsidian[2]. I tested/tried OneNote long back and doing a quick search says you can export[3] the whole at one go to a Word format. This should, then work macOS -- export to Word Format and Pandoc. 1. https://evernote.com https://evernote.com 2. https://obsidian.md https://obsidian.md 3. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/export-onenote-files-different-formats https://www.thewindowsclub.com/export-onenote-files-differen...
- pqs 4y ago> Unfortunately, I had to leave it like everyone else I use Evernote, and I guess I'm not the only one, because I'm sure my monthly subscription doesn't pay all the bills of the company. They even ship new features now, like Tasks. It would be curious if I were the only user. ;-)
- Fnoord 4y agoObsidian app seems just an Electron app though. It uses MD (as the domain name suggests), and if you do syncing yourself its free.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoIt isn't "free" for a good chunk of folks. Read the EULA: https://obsidian.md/eula https://obsidian.md/eula
- nittanymount 4y agoagree. moved to obsidian, it is nice and flexible (with a self-cooked bash cli accessing md files from terminal...)
- some_furry 4y agoThis project caught my eye because of its name and the infamous "OwO what's this?" copypasta. I'm not a OneNote user, so I don't have any other immediate feedback to offer, but thanks for contributing to the open source community.
- nittanymount 4y agothis is a nice project! wonder why you started with powershell, not something natively supported on mac and windows... just saw there is a powershell package on homebrew, not sure how good it is on mac... :-)
- random42_ 4y agoPowerShell 7 is cross-platform: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/What-s-New-in-PowerShell-70?view=powershell-7.2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-...
- NylaTheWolf 4y agoThis is actually really neat! I used to use OneNote all the time but I like Obsidian more. That name also makes me laugh haha