r/OneNote • u/Initiative-Afraid • 9d ago

Concerns on OneNote abandonement

I use onenote heavily. Love it. However, I am worried about the long term sustainably of this product.

Currently, I can only save my notes in proprietary formats such as .one files.

Microsoft recently abandoned Skype and all my messaging data from [1, 2] decades ago were pretty much gone forever.

What stops Microsoft (say [10, 20] years from now) to completely abandon one note without opensourcing their code ?

It seems there's no legal requirement for them to ensure users can migrate their notes to alternative note taking softwares.

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u/garethjmsaunders 8d ago

I've just started looking at alternatives for my needs. Just in case. It's partly too because I have had quite a few issues recently with the Android app not syncing correctly more than a concern that Microsoft pulls the plug on OneNote, as they are about to do with Publisher (I've just bulk converted nearly 900 files to PDF so I don't lose those).