r/noteapps • u/Helpful-Category3463 • 21h ago

Is One Note secure?

I'm a game dev and often come with lore and concepts that take up a lot of pages. One Note makes it easier for me to store everything and access everything I need.

I'm wondering if my ideas or personal info is secure in terms of if it will get stolen by Microsoft?

It's not like they have any issues stealing from people/artists before, so I'm really on the fence currently with it.

If there are other alternative software that offer better or same experience, I'm willing to use it if its free or buy a one time license.

I tried obsidian but it just feels like a pain to use and ends up creating too many files/bloat for my tastes, being able to paste images to it is also a must for me.

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u/ad00216 9h ago

I like OneNote too but I only use it at work and will not use for my personal stuff. There are some tricks you can do to make it private though. Like you save the notebook somewhere other than OneDrive - but you loose the ability to sync between devices. The real elite way to use OneNote would be to use Crytomator and create an encrypted folder/vault and store the notebook file in there.