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The future is in the cloud though, and OneNote has always (for the ~3 years I've been using it) worked this way. Everything is synced with the cloud.


  > The future is in the cloud though, and OneNote has always
  > (for the ~3 years I've been using it) worked this way.
No, it has not always "worked this way" and it still doesn't across the board. I've been using OneNote for ~13 years (since the 2000 version). And in fact, the Windows versions continue to support offline notebooks despite Microsoft's attempts to shoehorn people onto the cloud.

A rather common OneNote usage scenario I see is a OneNote notebook on a company file share, or a shared Dropbox folder. OneNote supports multiple concurrent edits of a single notebook.

Not everyone wants everything in the cloud.


"shared Dropbox folder" is still the cloud, just not Microsoft's.


Which is great! My business is based on cloud computing. I totally see the value of syncing my business notes through the cloud to my other devices. But I need the option of flagging certain notebooks as private and not to be synced. So I guess I'll stick with Yojimbo for personal notes.


Or try Turtl (https://turtl.it). We're early stage, but everything is private by default (client-side encrypted) before syncing to "the cloud." Your data is available everywhere but completely private. This is great for small businesses who don't want to have to worry about whether what they're uploading is sensitive or not.

Disclosure: I'm the one building it =].


So I share my ideas with Microsoft and the NSA?

NO WAY.


Well, if you want cloud sync, the NSA is in no matter what: Dropbox, Evernote, OneNote, you-name-it.


Unless said app uses client-side encryption for everything.




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