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I haven't seen anything in the LibreOffice suite but I'd like to see one too. Something like Joplin is the closest I've seen. But I'm on the hunt for something similar for my personal files

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Another alt is Notable. It's just Markdown so it can't do the fancy stuff that OneNote does, but your files are just .mk files that you can sync with whatever device you want.

I'm still having a hard time switching from Evernote, though. It's just got too many years of me jotting things down that I can Ctrl-Q and find. My organization is an absolute mess though and it feels wrong to import all that garbage into one of these more modern apps.

Thanks for suggesting this. Notable's focused feature set and open file format reminds me of the ethos behind NoteWiki, which is an ancient win32 program that is basically a glorified notepad window that converts camelCased words to hyperlinks, and when clicked, creates a new text file with that name and opens the editor page to that file.

I used Zim (https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Notebooks.html) for a while and found it useful.

Thanks for posting this.

Zim looks to be a good self-hosted alternative to my dokuwiki instance, but as it lacks embedding images, file attachments, ink support, it's not quite there.

You can embed images and attach files using the plugins. https://zim-wiki.org/screenshots.html

But yeah, definitely not as feature full as Onenote.

If you're looking for ink support, I've messed with Xournal and it's pen support was good.

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