OneNote-Blog Tips and News for Microsoft OneNote

OneNote Principal Product Manager Benjamin Hodes presented some upcoming features of the Windows 10 app at Microsoft’s technology conference Ignite 2018.

Why is it possible to edit OneNote notebooks in the cloud without an active Internet connection? Does this mean that there are local notebooks in all versions of OneNote? Yes and No. Learn some basics about the cache and editing notes offline.

There might soon be an option to download and backup your OneNote notebooks from the cloud without using any tricks. The reason is an upcoming EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The March update enables the OneNote app for Windows 10 to transfer locally saved notebook files to OneDrive. This may be bad news for many users.

Almost five years after I launched the German OneNote-Blog here finally comes its English counterpart.

If you click just below an existing OneNote content frame, it will be automatically extended by one or two lines. This tip shows you how to force a new frame instead.

Onenote notebooks take up to four or five times the space of their actual content on your system drive, at least in OneNote 2016. Why is that so and how can you reduce the size?

In OneNote 2013 / 2016 you can use the wiki link function to automatically create a whole swing of new pages from an Excel spreadsheet or another text list.

Many Linux users are craving for a port of OneNote. Microsoft kept quiet about this. Now a OneNote developer has made a more specific statement.

Documents that are embedded in a OneNote page will always open in read-only mode. The only exception is OneNote 2013/2016 for Windows. An explanation.

As for now there are not much areas where the OneNote app for Windows is ahead of OneNote 2016. One of them is related to the search for special chars as prefixes to give you an alternative to the rather weak tagging system.

The Fall Creators update of Windows 10 has brought a change to OneDrive. Files are only downloaded to the local folder on demand. How does this affect OneNote?

Officially you should only be able to open OneNote section (.ONE) files in the Office version of OneNote 2010/2013/2016. Here is how you can to load those files into the OneNote UWP app for Windows 10.

A OneNote developer revealed astonishing information on the common sync error 0xE0000007.

A warning to all those who think that OneNote 2010 could be updated to OneNote 2016 for free without problems: There’s a big trap lurking here.