NoteCraft

Free clean-room note-taking app that works like OneNote: colored notebooks, sections and pages, a ribbon, tags and to-do boxes, with notes saved as plain files.

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What works the same as OneNote

An Office-style ribbon with Home, Insert and View tabs, and a File screen for your notebooks.
Notebooks, section groups, sections and pages in a tree, each notebook and section in its own color.
Tags like To Do, Important, Question and Idea, drawn as the marks you know.
Write anywhere on the page in boxes you can move, and type equations.
Search across every page of every notebook.

What is missing

There is no Mac version yet: macOS is untested.
OneNote .one files import only with the notecraft-cli command, and ink and password-protected sections aren't read.
No online notebooks.
Text that mixes right-to-left and left-to-right languages isn't fully supported yet.

How to get started

There's no installer yet, so it has to be built from the source code.
Install Rust from rustup.rs.
Download the project and run cargo run --release -p notecraft in its folder. Your notes go to Documents\NoteCraft.

Compatible files

OneNote files (.one) According to the project