HT205793: Import your notes and files to the Notes app
Learn about Import your notes and files to the Notes app
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Sep 14, 2016 7:16 PM in response to notanotheruser2by Skydiver119,I don't have one note so I'm just thinking of options....do you have One Drive or another third party program? Perhaps you could export from One Note to One Drive, or e-mail them to yourself then get them into notes that way.
I can go into my one drive, and open a file and have an option to send it to notes. -
Sep 14, 2016 7:40 PM in response to Skydiver119by ChitlinsCC,Howdy Skydiver
If I read the OPost right, I believe the OP gets that they can do them one by one - looking for a "batch process" of 100+ OneNotes
My research shows OneNote "export" is nothing more than "Save As" a new filetype - one at a time, of course.
How to import and export information in OneNote
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/830047
too bad its not a video... I know of a couple good converters
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Sep 14, 2016 8:04 PM in response to ChitlinsCCby Skydiver119,Very true. However one drive and one note can also run on a PC, which does allow for multi file transfers via windows explorer. If s/he can get the files onto his/her PC then they can do a bulk transfer into one drive. Will probably still have the tedious singular import into Notes. Or may be able to use iCloud for windows to get the one note files into the iCloud notes, which could make them accessible on the iPad.
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Sep 14, 2016 8:21 PM in response to Skydiver119by notanotheruser2,thanks for replies, my challenge is in getting 100+ notes into Apple Notes. For example to migrate from Evernote into OneNote I just exported 1 file from Evernote and imported it into OneNote. That's it, done. All notes were still separated. Now that I used OneNote for a while (and changed a whole bunch of notes) I want to try Apple Notes. But the process of getting all my 100+ notes from OneNote into Apple Notes cannot be found on google. It seems the only way to do it is manually note by note, which is not a good way in my opinion. So if anyone knows a good way of getting 100+ notes from OneNote into Apple Notes, please help.
I have read both articles by microsoft on how to export and articles by apple on how to import. They just use different formats, which is the cause of my issue.
I also don't have any issues of getting files from pc to mac and vice versa. The tedious singular import into Notes (from OneNote) is the challenge here.
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Sep 15, 2016 10:33 AM in response to notanotheruser2by ChitlinsCC,★HelpfulI am happy to say that I understood your problem.
I am sad to say that my (pretty good skills) search found precisely what you did - zip.
I even used " onenote AND libreoffice " - LibreOffice is an open source suite of apps that most folks say kicks a** on almost everything = zip
If I were you, I would next try the Microsoft for Mac forums and ask simply "How do I BATCH EXPORT my OneNote files to another format?" - answer Apple Notes if it really matters to the helpers there
onenote - Microsoft Community
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Sep 15, 2016 10:32 AM in response to ChitlinsCCby notanotheruser2,thanks. Looking at the export part of this migration process, OneNote does export a lot of notes by notebook, or if I select a whole bunch of notes and then press export. It separates them by section names. Maybe somehow else in xms/mht format.
If i knew what Apple Notes expects as a note separator I might be able to do a mass find/replace on the exported file and import it in txt format with those note separators. (tried just blank new lines with mac EOL characters and that didn't work).
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Sep 15, 2016 11:07 AM in response to notanotheruser2by ChitlinsCC,I am basically now a fly on the wall...
It sounds as if your workaround 'ideas' may be on the right track
I still say you should get with the Mac folks over at the Microsoft equivalent of ASC
(the link I posted - it even runs on JiveSoftware like ASC does!)
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Sep 16, 2016 10:20 AM in response to notanotheruser2by notanotheruser2,Since I wasn't able to find a better way nor find what Apple Notes expects as a separator between individual notes, I ended up doing this manually. For anyone else who wants to migrate from OneNote to Apple Notes here are the steps I repeated over and over until all notes were copied. (done on mac)
1. Click the note title you want to copy in OneNote
2. Shift + Command + A (selects everything including title)
3. Command + C (copies to clipboard)
4. Click on desired notebook in Apple Notes
5. Command + N (creates a new note)
6. Command + V (pastes the copied note with title on first line, which makes it title in Apple Notes)
Takes about 5 seconds per note once I got the hang of it. Tedious but a workaround nevertheless. Please post here if you found a better solution.