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Posted by bartb
Apr 26, 2018 at 09:09 PM
tightbeam wrote:
OneNote for Windows 10 does not have this “legacy” feature from OneNote
>2016:
>
>“Store notebooks on your local hard drive instead of in the cloud,
>including backups”
>
>Until it does - and it’s by no means likely that it ever will - I’m
>hesitant to use it, and I’m sure I am not alone.
>
Agreed ... that why I’m moving over to DEVON Think Pro
Posted by bartb
Apr 26, 2018 at 09:10 PM
NickG wrote:
>
>tightbeam wrote:
>OneNote for Windows 10 does not have this “legacy” feature from OneNote
>>2016:
>>
>>“Store notebooks on your local hard drive instead of in the cloud,
>>including backups”
>>
>>Until it does - and it’s by no means likely that it ever will - I’m
>>hesitant to use it, and I’m sure I am not alone.
>>
>
>I would not expect that functionality to return - It seems to clear to
>me that the direction of travel is to the so-called cloud
Agreed!
Posted by yosemite
Apr 26, 2018 at 10:44 PM
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Good question about search performance from the cloud. I wonder if
>Microsoft follows discussions such as this one, and would be prepared to
>answer your question.
>
>Just out of curiosity, what are you using OneNote for?
>
>Daly
At work I use it as a visual file cabinet, for notes, for miscellaneous, and for some mild project management and team management. Emails are in Outlook and files are in the file system, just about everything else is in either Onenote or workflowy. In Onenote I have notebooks for different work areas, with section groups and sections for projects, and everything related to that project except most of the emails, is either in Onenote or linked from it. Meeting notes, schedules (simple ones), various notes, links to key files, and certain key emails (which are embedded, because unfortunately you can’t reliably link to individual emails in Outlook). Project-related notebooks are shared amongst team members.
I like it because it is fast even now that it’s got tons of stuff in it. It’s quick and easy to get stuff in, and it’s pretty easy to find stuff and get stuff back out.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Apr 26, 2018 at 11:07 PM
I’m pretty sure that with storage in the cloud they don’t mean this will be necessary a web client/server application. They might just use a local cache and sync it with your cloud. At least for the moment. They only need to make sure the cloud must be used to lockin their users to their services. Then they can sell overpriced webspace for your 18 core/20 TB Storage home computer.
Posted by NickG
Apr 27, 2018 at 11:27 AM
tightbeam wrote:
You’re probably right, though if Microsoft is committed to cloud storage
>as the default for OneNote, it’d be nice to have an option for parallel
>local storage.
One of my major objections to cloud-only apps is that, despite what tech companies and commentators might want to be live, internet access is *not* universal and reliable. At the same time as cloud-based apps are being sold as a solution for the mobile, agile worker, they also cripple said worker when they find themselves somewhere where the could isn’t available.
Cloud sync - oh yes, I’ll have that, because then my only issue when I’m “in the dark” is that I might not have the latest update or be able to access additional information. Cloud-only? No thanks - in the dark, I’m crippled.
Of course, there’s cacheing, but that’s only a partial solution and is always at risk from those app or OS functions that might decide that now’s a good time to clean up old cache items