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I like the idea of it being non-linear.

In terms of features, being able to paste an image (e.g. like pasting into a github comment, or into a gdoc) would be great. I find I use screenshots into the clipboard more than saving to a file, however I don't know if others do as much nor if Windows / Mac supports that.

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Mac: Ctrl+Cmd+Shift+4 to grab a rectangular selection to the clipboard.

Does windows have something similar? I've been using PrintScrn and Paint but it's comparably very awkward. I know there are apps, but "working in places where I haven't / can't install apps" is a requirement.

Yes Windows have a snipping tool[1]

Although I use it every day, I haven't bothered looking up keyboard shortcuts for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipping_Tool

Win - Shift - S I think

Edit: that might be specific to the OneNote clipping tool though.

It has been promoted to a normal Windows shortcut in one of the recent major updates.

Windows: WIN+SHIFT+S

Mac: CMD+SHIFT+4 (Ctrl not req'd.)

This is the #1 reason I just moved from a big markdown role to using OneNote at work. Screen clips, whiteboards, drawings all things that are quite handy to have next to the indexable typed notes. Quite happy after a couple weeks.

Yeah, other platforms support it. I want to get drag and drop working as well, so that would probably be a good thing to add with that. Thanks for the comments :-)

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