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I also carry a ton of critical information in notes. I've tried extensively Apple's iCloud-synced notes, Evernote, and Microsoft's OneNote. Apple is poor at solving trivial conflicts. Evernote is even worse, and really unreliable. Microsoft OneNote is great at reliability and syncing (UX is so-so in mobile, that's the only gotcha). I wouldn't have expected so, but they have the upper hand here.

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In my Sisyphean search for an Evernote alternative, I periodically try out OneNote, too. For note-taking on the desktop (including on Mac), it blows the doors off of Evernote.

But, it can't search the contents of attachment files. So you can't just throw everything into OneNote and then count on being able to find it again.

In my view, this makes it a fundamentally different kind of application.

I switched from Evernote to OneNote too, though lately I've been doing all my text-based notes in https://workflowy.com/ (YC '10). It automatically uploads your data to Dropbox if you upgrade, but you can easily export everything as a single file yourself.

I am also relying on OneNote - Do you know if I can export or backup my data, automaticly?

If you save notebooks to Onedrive (default option in latest versions) you can install the Onedrive app and have it sync the documents folder to your machine all the time so you will have a copy on Onedrive, and your machine. Onedrive also backs up your data though you might have to go through Customer support to get to that.

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