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Show HN: Open OneNote Viewer in Rusthttps://github.com/emsi/OneNoteViewerFor more than 15 years, I accumulated hundreds upon hundreds of notes in OneNote. I loved the application and still consider it one of the best and most distinctive note-taking tools available. Its free-form canvas supports a way of organizing information that Markdown-based tools simply cannot reproduce.The problem was that using OneNote became increasingly inconvenient for me. Microsoft never released a native Linux client, so I kept a Windows VM and later even a separate Windows small PC largely for OneNote. The OneNote Web Clipper for Firefox eventually stopped being supported, removing one of the ways I regularly captured information.The web version did not solve the problem. In particular, it could not search across all my notebooks at once. To find a note, I first had to remember which notebook contained it, which rather defeated the purpose of having a searchable archive. I also found the web application slow and substantially more limited than the desktop client.I looked at alAug 1, 2026 7:57 PM




