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by smilekzs 1272 days ago
Long time OneNote user (since 2003 debut) chiming in. I have been extensively test-driving Obsidian for 6 months now and couldn't be happpier.

I think both [^1] are opinionated on which layers of organization maps to where.

- OneNote: FS dir -> FS file (database) = OneNote Section (manual ordering) -> OneNote (sub-)Page (manual ordering + level) -> OneNote "note containers" (textboxes; [^2])

- Obsidian: FS dir -> FS file (plain text) = Obsidian Page (automatic ordering) -> headers in the page (manual ordering + level)

While I agree in principle that some non-leaf node should be allowed to have content, really you can see that headers/sections in Obsidian map well to the OneNote page-level organization. I wish I got a choice though...

[^1]: Out of the box. OneNote also has a major plugin bundle known as OneTastic.

[^2]: OneNote has _cosmetic_ headers in textboxes which isn't very useful.