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OneNote vs Foam: What are the differences?
Developers describe OneNote as "A digital notebook for capturing and organizing everything". Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. With easy navigation and search, you’ll always find your notes right where you left them. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. On the other hand, Foam is detailed as "A personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub". It is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub It allows you to own your data while being free, open source, and extensible to suit your personal workflow..
OneNote and Foam can be primarily classified as "Task Management" tools.
Foam is an open source tool with 3.46K GitHub stars and 90 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Foam's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Foam
Pros of OneNote
- Works great with OneDrive1
- Syncs quickly1
- Dark mode1
- Search text in images (OCR)1