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MS OneNote is popular. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it, it comes standard with office.

OneNote is OK at the note-taking part, but as far as I can tell your information ends up pretty much locked up in OneNote. It can only export in certain circumstances on certain platforms, and even then only as PDF or a proprietary ZIP format. Which is a deal-breaker, for me at least. I'm pretty sure it used to be able to export in a more portable format.

Yes, something they recently (2-3years ago) changed when they merged the Windows Store app and Desktop app.

The problem you are describing is the issue of sharing complete notebooks, but if you share pages it works quite alright.

But yes, its really annoying that most (if not all) note taking apps do not make it easy for you to import/export notes.

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