onenote-md-exporter VS Notepads

The situation isn’t as bad as it would be for a cloud only service though. As long as you have backups, you can open the “.one” files with OneNote even if you have no access to OneDrive or sync. You can also use an external tool like the OneNote markdown exporter (https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter) to get a copy that at least has the basic content accessible outside of OneNote.

looks like it was this one: https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

Are you on Windows? I used this to migrate to Joplin before I started using Obsidian. It's a quick way to get your notes into markdown. Did a great job for mine.

By the way, I developed a tool to export OneNote notebook into Joplin export format or markdown format. Maybe it can help you to evaluate the different alternatives : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

For OneNote users wanting to evaluate or migrate to Obsidian, you can give a try to the exporting tool that I have developed. It is available on GitHub : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter . If you encounter any issue or missing feature, you can open an issue on GitHub. Hope it can help some people.

I have just published the 1.0 version which is pretty stable and complete. It is available here: https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

Not answering any of your questions but If you are looking for a way to migrate your onenote notebooks into Joplin, you may be interested by this tool that I have developed : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter .

As far as I could tell it's a UWP app specific issue (ie calculator, file explorer, paint3D). Nothing happens in these apps when i try to paste something, calculator even crashes if i try to copy, and I know nothing gets put into the clipboard as the last thing i copied from a non-UWP app is still possible to paste in other non-UWP apps. I verified this using powershell with the Get-Clipboard command. Notepad works fine, but afaik it's not UWP. I do have a custom UWP notepad installed (https://github.com/0x7c13/Notepads) which DOES have this issue.

Notpads maybe work for you. It keeps everything saved automatically.

You make a good few points, though the base already exists, and is open source! You can contribute here and bring the few features you think the Notepads app currently lacks.

Notepads is a good FOSS alternative to the default windows notepad. That said, stop storing your passwords in a text file. Consider using a password manager like Bitwarden and KeepassXC instead.

If you're doing research, you should learn to use Zotero too and search the right tool for you. There are a lot of options, the best -to me- are Obsidian, Zettlr (before 2.0.0), Joplin and Vim (haven´t tried emacs enough to say anything). I also use a simple text editor like Notepads (Windows) or Nano for quick notes ([espanso](espanso.org) can be useful if you want to use quick templates too).

but the problems is not native software really, it's Microsoft software. their modern TEXT EDITOR breaks on large text files because their fucking RichTextEditor component can't fucking handle pagination https://github.com/JasonStein/Notepads/issues/10

That's not the default windows notepad. It's an app called Notepads. It is free and open-source, and it is very fast too. It is also available on the Microsoft store here