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urlwolf:
urlwolf, as you wrote earlier Office 2007 can now run via Wine. Here's a thread specifically on Onenote 2007 under Wine in Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=744743 . The core seems ok, but some features do not work. I haven't tried it yet myself, but plan to do so sometime. If it runs well enough, and especially if there are no problems saving/opening Onenote content across the "OS border", then I will probably commit to Onenote as my primary notetaking tool. If you or anyone else here has by now tried it then please post your impressions here.
-Nod5 (July 27, 2008, 06:10 PM)
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Hi Nod5,

That's great to hear. I'll be curious to see how well it works.
Unfortunately I cannot say I'm moving to linux full time.
The main reasons are:
1- PDF display is bad. I spend most of my day looking at pdfs, and this is a showstopper
2- hardware support takes a fight, and sometimes you lose. I got an external USB soundcard (Tascam US122L). There are notes to make it work, but I don't want to risk spending several hours recompiling things and have a half assed solution, if any.
3- Mostly any program for any category is inferior to the windows alternative. This is just normal. But why settle for a worse option? This is painfully evident if, as most of us have, you spent a long time looking for the best of the best under win.

So right now I cannot justify the change. I use Linux for programming, and XP under VMWare for everything else.

urlwolf:
Some findings for linux (all platforms really). Open source as well:
takenote
http://rasm.ods.org/takenote/

Good, if simple. Even spartan. Tab doesn't do indentation (!).

Notecase
same thing (gtk-based). There's a commercial version that adds what everyone would call basic functions in other apps.
http://notecase.sourceforge.net/

Promising?

Still, they both fail at search and highlights. I want all occurrences highlighted. It puzzles me why nobody can simply copy oneNote feature by feature. It's not that hard :)

urlwolf:
Notecase seems very promising BUT:
the free version doesn't keep indentation (!). And the pay version doesn't have any other feature I need. This is silly. Back to searching a half-decent oneNote replacement under linux...

muntealb:
You can ask the developer of NoteCase Pro to include the features that you want. He has a blog where he wrote recently: "Many users are now being more active in sending their improvement ideas, so if you have one, don't hesitate :) ". Any feedback is really welcomed, he answers to e-mails in 1-2 days.

NoteCase blog : http://factoriel.blogspot.com/

urlwolf:
Thanks mintealb!

It seems there's a notecase version that supports syntax highlighting. This is a patched notecase v1.9.5 using GtkSourceView. Great news! I've been looking for this feature for a while.

I contacted the author.

On the other hand, zim is a personal wiki that is very promising too. It's not exactly portable, though (i.e., lots of dependencies to build it, soso support on win, forget about a pen drive)

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