Hello, from an heavy OneNote user (Italia)

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I’ve been using OneNote since 2007, so my notebooks hold a massive amount of notes. While I still find OneNote to be a powerful tool, it’s missing some key features that have become essential for me, like transclusion, advanced tags, and a more flexible search function. Since I write extensively and frequently, these limitations have started to slow me down, prompting me to try alternative solutions to better organize my notes.

Switching to LogSeq has addressed many of these issues. Admittedly, moving to LogSeq has required some trade-offs. OneNote’s structure is rigid yet intuitive, while LogSeq’s approach is much more flexible. This flexibility can feel a bit overwhelming at first, so I recommend giving yourself a few months to adjust before making a final decision. Now, when I need structure, I use namespaces to recreate a similar organization to my OneNote setup. But I also love LogSeq’s flexibility, like how “tags can tag other tags” because tags are pages in LogSeq. It’s a different—and somewhat mind-bending :laughing: —way of working, but I’m enjoying the shift!

One thing worth mentioning about plugins: while they’re a convenient way to add features, I’ve found that the more plugins I add, the more conflicts arise.

Simplicity is the supreme form of sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

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Sorry for replying four months later, but this is what brought me to LogSeq as well. OneNote was so great for me, I used it at school and work. But Microsoft has been forcing Copilot on me and I cannot escape it even when I turn it off, etc. Seeing that little Copilot icon blinking on every line was so frustrating. Now I’m here and looking to move my note files over!

I understand what you mean by the structure differences and how LogSeq’s flexibility can be overwhelming. That has been a source of struggle for me in the past when trying to find new note apps - I hate feeling coddled with too little freedom, but then too much freedom makes it hard to know how to accomplish what I want. So far (well, one day) LogSeq has been mostly intuitive to me - hoping that continues and/or my ability to learn picks up! :crossed_fingers:

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