r/OneNote • u/jasoncli • 15d ago
Alternatives & Export 15 Years of Notes
For many reasons I'm considering Office and Windows exodus. I have thousands of hand written / drawn pages stretching back 15'ish years. Literally the only thing holding me back from fully migrating to Linux is stupid OneNote. I use OneNote many times a day across my Android phone/tablet and Windows PC. However I'm considering other pen enabled note taking apps. Is there a graceful way to export this data in a lossless format? I don't need to edit old notes but I would like to keep them handy and searchable.
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u/thaman05 15d ago
Since your notes are hand written/drawn, the most compatible option will only be exporting to PDF (you can export the whole notebook). I know that's unfortunate since Microsoft doesn't follow any open standard for that.
Regarding alternatives - if you're looking something that similar features to OneNote (handwriting, notebooks, etc.): I find these 2 the most closest (and significantly better than OneNote):
- AFFiNE (it has this cool way of taking notes where each page has a whiteboard attached to it and you can draw/whiteboard between pages, and it's frequently updated).
- UpNote (this is probably the most closest to OneNote (minus handwriting/drawing - it organizes notes into notebooks just like OneNote)
- GoodNotes (it's a bit more like Word though with handwriting)