Onenote alternative for mac?

My instructor wants us to use Onenote on the class pc, suggesting after the training is over we can take it anywhere. However I don't want to have to buy this for my macbook. I'd rather have something compatible (and free). It also needs to not depend on the internet (at the school this is unreliable, so online only wiki notes won't do.)

Anyone have any suggestions? I've tried Tomboy but it keeps crashing and losing the notebook. I've also tried Tiddlywicki but I'm not quite sold on that either.

muimi07 said:

I've got two suggestions:

Evernote -- I know it is web-based but you CAN have desktop only notes as well and it is nice to have the backup. If you're looking for something comparable to OneNote this is probably it.

Locally hosted wiki -- If you are tech savvy at all, you can install MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) and then install another Wiki application like DokuWiki. A lot more involved than Tiddlywiki but I personally LOVED this solution for writing a wiki for my WIP.

For Tomboy crashing, have you tried using Dropbox as the sync folder? That way if it does crash, you have an automatic backup.

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I gave up on Tomboy. If it crashes that often, why bother. I'd not heard of the Dokuwiki. I'll have to look into that. Might not do in the short run. But in the long run the class is a Web Applications class and I was looking into installing that kind of stuff anyway (if it's free) or activating it (since some seems to be there already. I'm sure life would be much simpler and better organized with something like this-and then I would actually have time to write instead of just an occasional sticky note here and there.

I get the idea evernotes is moving in the right direction but not sure they are there yet (possibly it's because some features are for the pro version.) I may end up just trying everything!