The future of OneNote

Posted by NickG
Apr 28, 2018 at 07:04 AM

Dellu wrote:
>“Store notebooks on your local hard drive instead of in the cloud
> >What is the point of storing these Onenote files in the local drive in
>the first place?
> >- These notes cannot be opened or searched with another application.
>They cannot be opened with other applications. They have always been
>Onenote databases. If you have onenote installed, you don’t need them;
>if you don’t have onenote installed they have always been useless.
> >
>- the current Onenote also caches similarly. You can use the application
>forever without ever being connected to the Internet. The MS cloud is
>not required. you use it only if you want to access your files across
>across many devises.
> >
>Unless I am missing sth, some of the complains in here don’t make much
>sense.
> >I am one of the people who hates corporate greed and not so much fond of
>the Cloud. But, the points raised in here against the new version of
>Onenote are, I think, based on misunderstandings.
>

The point of storing OneNote files locally is, as I said earlier in the thread, to be able to work when there’s no internet connection, or a very poor one. There may be other uses cases too, but that one is, for me, the deal-breaker.

If you *never* have to work without internet access, it’s not a problem. I f you *never* run into data limits, it’s not a problem.

It’s not a “complaint” - it’s a reason why a cloud-only app is not suitable for some people. Including me.