Symbolab was free up to about four or five years ago, but good things never last.

Wolfram is a lot cheaper. One time payment of like 5 bucks and it's been on my phone for years.

If sky news is your leading source for science facts, I think you may be misled.

Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The operation has failed.

As the de-facto IT admin in a small business, this message haunts my dreams and I hate that I know it by heart. Time to make a new mail profile and configure all the accounts again. Its not like it's the seventh time on this computer. It's not like I've reinstalled Outlook three times already as per Microsoft's "accepted solution".

There's a reason I don't use Microsoft software on my hardware.

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I use Xournal++, too. Note that the original Xournal is no longer maintained, but Xournal++ is.

It's supposed to be a clone of Windows Journal - the precursor to OneNote. It's very good at exporting to and annotating PDFs, and I use it for all my classwork. Windows Journal worked great for me back in the day, and Xournal++ continues to do so today.

All that said, I'm saving this post so I can try out some of the alternatives listed here in the future.

The Whirlpool forums are probably going to meet that requirement, though they're local to Australia. I'm not sure of a global equivalent...

I'm back on internet forums now. Screw the big companies.