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Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ... by diffeomorphism on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:15AM (#27810507)
> OneNote has been free for the last few years.

Not in my experience. The online, UWP, feature-reduced version that comes with windows is gratis, but ... .

The proper desktop version requires an office license. It then is "gratis" on top of the cost you already paid for office.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ... by darekkay on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:28AM (#27810637)
> The proper desktop version requires an office license

That's not true in my experience. I'm running a proper "OneNote 2016" version without any license or subscription. This is also stated on a Microsoft support site [0]:

> OneNote (formerly called “OneNote 2016”), the _free_ desktop app which runs on all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and which is part of Office 2019 and Microsoft 365.

Further down, it's stated:

> Download OneNote as a free standalone Windows desktop app (some features may be limited).

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-differ...

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ... by diffeomorphism on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:48AM (#27811482)
The link to the "free standalone app" just gives me OfficeSetup.exe (7.0MB), which did not give me a standalone app when I last tried it, but if that works now. Great!
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ... by whimsicalism on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:45AM (#27811444)
No?
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