Greetings. I admit that I am an addict of Microsoft OneNote. In the office version, the layout of Notebooks, tabs, and pages is perfect for me. At work it pretty much replaced the file cabinet for most of us, because it kept documents so well organized and easy to refer to. I have a huge notebook on my home PC just for Trainz information! When I got my new Windows machine and went to use Windows OneNote, I found out it was tied to OneDrive, and on the PC there was no export or save as function. Everything is kept in a database with the only access being the user interface. To back it up, you have to figure out where the database is stored and back up that folder, but I don't know if it will restore in the event of a failure. Or if for some reason, Microsoft should drop it from Windows. At first, I copied everything to Evernote, which works much the same, but because I keep so much information, I soon hit the limits of EverNote (It is not offline, but online storage), so I had to copy everything back over to OneNote.
I had to disconnect OneDrive because it tried to sync everything up there, and it filled up and started throwing errors because it has a 5GB limit. Deleting stuff from OneDrive is problematic, because I read that if it is sync'd it will also delete it off of your PC. So, I had to back up my PC, delete everything from OneDrive (I had never asked it to sync anything up there, but it did anyway), disconnect OneDrive, then restore my PC.
Sorry for being so long-winded! Anyway, I am still looking for an alternative, but I don't find the Notebook-tab-pages type interface anywhere else. Google Keep is free, but it does not appear to have that easy method of organization. So, I am wondering if anyone out there has a super, duper information storage and organization app that they would recommend. It has to hold a lot of information of every type, be easy to organize, and preferably freeware or open source. If I find something, I am still going to have to manually hand copy everything over from OneNote due to the lack of export or save-as, but I will hopefully have it in something recoverable. Thanks for any recommends!
I had to disconnect OneDrive because it tried to sync everything up there, and it filled up and started throwing errors because it has a 5GB limit. Deleting stuff from OneDrive is problematic, because I read that if it is sync'd it will also delete it off of your PC. So, I had to back up my PC, delete everything from OneDrive (I had never asked it to sync anything up there, but it did anyway), disconnect OneDrive, then restore my PC.
Sorry for being so long-winded! Anyway, I am still looking for an alternative, but I don't find the Notebook-tab-pages type interface anywhere else. Google Keep is free, but it does not appear to have that easy method of organization. So, I am wondering if anyone out there has a super, duper information storage and organization app that they would recommend. It has to hold a lot of information of every type, be easy to organize, and preferably freeware or open source. If I find something, I am still going to have to manually hand copy everything over from OneNote due to the lack of export or save-as, but I will hopefully have it in something recoverable. Thanks for any recommends!