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0 pointswolvoleo2mo ago0 comments

You actually like onenote? Note taking is my primary tool at work but I really hate onenote. The web version can't even search properly in all folders. And there's no desktop Linux version.

Privately I use obsidian with self hosted livesync which is amazing. But at work I have to use Copilot. In some ways I don't mind it in onenote because it actually succeeds in finding stuff the search function doesn't. Syncing to mobile often doesn't work right either.

To me it's the worst O365 app and the one I need the most :(

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ethbr12mo ago

> can't even search properly in all folders

I'd be fascinated by anyone from the Office team to tell me why Microsoft can't get global search right in their products.

E.g. SharePoint has had broken search for decades at this point (on multiple entirely different platforms of the product!)

It's a solved technical problem -- it's just like no one at MS cares.

randycupertino2mo ago

Sharepoint's search may be the one search that is actually worse than reddit's search.

randycupertino2mo ago

I do like it! I have been using it since college though so maybe I am just set in my ways and lazy to move to something new.

The way I set it up I don't find myself searching for things much as I know the way it's organized to quickly find things I need.

wolvoleoOP2mo ago

Ah I see. I don't find it very fast and I really need good search because my notes are total chaos like my brain :)

lenkite2mo ago

I have observed that people who are used to Onenote mainly like it for its inline-box style notes which can be inserted at any point in the page. Obsidian due to its markdown backend can't support this. Unless you painfully mess with tables, you have to stick to linear top-down approach and don't have free-form flexibility.

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0 pointswolvoleo2mo ago0 comments

You actually like onenote? Note taking is my primary tool at work but I really hate onenote. The web version can't even search properly in all folders. And there's no desktop Linux version.

To me it's the worst O365 app and the one I need the most :(

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ethbr12mo ago

> can't even search properly in all folders

I'd be fascinated by anyone from the Office team to tell me why Microsoft can't get global search right in their products.

E.g. SharePoint has had broken search for decades at this point (on multiple entirely different platforms of the product!)

It's a solved technical problem -- it's just like no one at MS cares.

randycupertino2mo ago

Sharepoint's search may be the one search that is actually worse than reddit's search.

randycupertino2mo ago

I do like it! I have been using it since college though so maybe I am just set in my ways and lazy to move to something new.

The way I set it up I don't find myself searching for things much as I know the way it's organized to quickly find things I need.

wolvoleoOP2mo ago

Ah I see. I don't find it very fast and I really need good search because my notes are total chaos like my brain :)

lenkite2mo ago

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