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I really liked one-note the last time I used it (> 5 years ago), but until they:

A) open-source it

B) allow me to host the data on my own server and syncing is automatic

C) Make it trivial to open/edit it in a terminal (inbefore "but you won't be able to do pictures!")

I won't be using it myself.

For B, OneNote notebooks are just files, so isn't this as easy as hosting any other file yourself? Just save everything in a folder that you synchronize with Dropbox or rysnc or whatever you want.

And obviously OneNote itself isn't open source, but the file format is, so it's not like your notes are locked into the Microsoft ecosystem.

The problem is integration; if you make offline edits in two places, you'd need to manually merge the files, which is a pain.

No, they sync if you set it up that way (DropBox, Google Sync, etc.) and you get revision history on ON including the name of the person that made the change.

I'm talking about conflicted copies[1]. Since Dropbox et all don't understand OneNote files, you'll have to merge the two copies manually.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/36

You are correct. In my head I had built a weird hosting relationship that doesn't really exist. I'm not proud of who I am before I have coffee.

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