OneNote users forced into fragile nested-table hacks
OneNote users find default styles and table editing frustrating, so some adopt nested tables to represent hierarchical note levels. That workaround helps organization but raises maintenance, mobile usability, and portability concerns. Users (many with long-term OneNote usage) want improved table editing behavior and better mobile/interop support.
“Right, I've been using OneNote for over a decade and never thought about this lol”
view evidence on reddit“Because the default styles have a font and color problem, I’ve come up with this organization method where the level of notes are represented by level of nested tables”
view evidence on reddit“Kind of ironic, this *useful* application of nested tables, as table editing in 1Note is just shit. When cutting pasting content around, I always end up with unwanted nested tables. Table editing sucks IMO”
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“Won't it be too much effort to make them nested and maintain them when tables becomes large and heavy ?”
view evidence on reddit“I've come up with this organization method where the level of notes are represented by level of nested tables”
view evidence on reddit“I've used tables to keep things organized, but never thought of using nested tables. Glad you posted this!”
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“You can add table colors for better appearance/organization as well.”
view evidence on reddit“Won't it be too much effort to make them nested and maintain them when tables becomes large and heavy ?”
view evidence on reddit“How well does this work on mobile devices?”
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“I imagine that would be a hell to copy that to a different text processor”
view evidence on reddit“Table editing sucks IMO, the default behaviour should be to move or copy rows, cells, columns, not to introduced neste...”
view evidence on reddit“How well does this work on mobile devices?”
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