Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>If you're using <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/OneNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneNote</span></a>, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> soon:</p><p>You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft365</span></a> account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: <a href="https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/microsoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m</span><span class="invisible">icrosoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/</span></a></p><p>For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding <a href="https://graz.social/tags/lockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lockin</span></a> effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.</p><p>People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: <a href="https://karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of-OneNote/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of</span><span class="invisible">-OneNote/</span></a></p><p>My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orgmode</span></a> & not yet another hip lock-in monster like <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>, <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Evernote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evernote</span></a> or other closed source <a href="https://graz.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> solutions: <a href="https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c</span><span class="invisible">hoices/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_note-taking_software" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis</span><span class="invisible">on_of_note-taking_software</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/PIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIM</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/notetaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notetaking</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/vendorlockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vendorlockin</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Notion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Notion</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Roam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roam</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>