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Onenote alternatives
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Good luck, people are just going to recommend bare bones note apps that use markdown or something and don't allow placing things where you want them.
I've looked and looked and nothing comes close to Onenote.
Obsidian effectively let's you do it through window panes. Literally lay out any content in any fashion. There are trade-offs but the graph view makes up for a good portion I think.
Obsidian supports canvases now, which seems very much like OneNote.
I wouldn't say barebones, but you're right in there is no direct alternative to OneNote I have ever found. It remains the product I haven't been able to directly replace.
A lot of the products people will suggest are very feature rich, just not all the same features as OneNote. For me, the ability to draw on the page freestyle with a stylus is what I love about OneNote. So easy to annotate notes. But linking and plugins are things others have which I love that OneNote lacks.