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Droolling

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  1. You don't do the kind of mass renovation they did to ruin a product. You do it to keep it alive and make it better.
  2. They do have a web app, but it's not as strong or snappy as the desktop ones. OneNote's business model is essentially: App is free, but you store the master copy of your notes online, so you need to pay for OneDrive storage space if you exceed the free 5GB limit. If you buy an Office license, you can use the old Windows Office app to store local, unsynchronized notebooks. OneNote started as a local file reader before the cloud was a thing. A OneNote notebook is a folder that contains .one files, each representing a section and its contents. Section Groups, ON's equivalent of stacks, are subfolders inside that main notebook folder. Microsoft tries to present OneNote somewhat like Evernote - you have an account, and an account has notebooks - but it's just OneNote apps, folders and .one files stored on OneDrive, and their sync protocol. OneNote itself does maintain a more complicated, cached version of open notebooks where each paragraph is its own thing, which lets users do collab pretty nicely and enables differential sync well. A downside of the OneNote setup is that it CANNOT do online-only notebooks. If you open a notebook in a local OneNote client, it has to download a cached version of the entire notebook, because that's what it does the edits to. The cache is synced separately. So, full offline, but compulsory offline. There are multiple OneNotes - macOS, iOS, Android all have native, so-called "modern" apps with a fancy new sync engine. All are cloud-only, with no possibility of unsynchronized storage. Their web app obviously reads direct from OneDrive. Windows has two versions - the old Office app, which has all manner of local integrations with other locally installed Office apps, and which (with a paid Office license) can create unsynchronized notebooks. OneNote for Windows 10 from the MS store is an entirely different, more modern codebase written for the UWP user interface system (thus the app is often called UWP) but since it started as a lightweight side thing for tablets, it's not as feature-rich as the Office app. MS had a very similar situation to what Evernote is going on here where they wanted to move away from the old Office codebase and focus on UWP and make it the flagship OneNote client on Windows. Much crying and gnashing of teeth ensued 😁, but they delivered a bunch of updates and UWP is a pretty good app nowadays, still not as 💪as the Office one, but close. They're also in a very Evernote situation in that all the native apps and the web app have pretty different featuresets. Parity is a pipe dream. The Office app and UWP even have different search syntax - now that's fun!
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