Hi everyone. A few days ago, I posted my project, Spiral, to Reddit, and I received quite a bit of feedback, including a suggestion from one user that I post it here.
A few years ago, I wanted to switch to Linux as my primary OS, but after finding alternatives to almost every other proprietary app I used without native support, I couldn't find anything that accurately replicated OneNote's structure. After learning the basics of Qt and a lot more development time than I initially planned for, I've been using my program, Spiral, as my primary note-taking app for college since last fall, and I thought I'd share it here in case anyone else happens to be looking for this type of program.
One note, though: Although I haven't lost any data while using Spiral, I would strongly advise that you make frequent backups just in case since the amount of testing I've done is probably not exhaustive of everything that could go wrong in a program like this. (Personally, I use abraunegg's OneDrive client for Linux, so OneDrive's revision history is always there for me in case I need it. Git also works very well since spiral notebooks are stored in JSON/HTML.)
Since this is mainly just something I've worked on in my free time (and since I'm still relatively new to this type of software development), I really only focused on implementing the features I needed from OneNote, so if there are any super important features I missed, I welcome any and all feedback.
Anyway, if you're craving this type of program for Linux as much as I was a year and a half ago, you can download Spiral at https://ift.tt/36ZxJTt.
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