https://petemahon.net/tags/joplin/Recent content in Joplin on PeteMahon.netHugoen-us<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0400https://petemahon.net/posts/migrating-onenote-to-joplin/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0400https://petemahon.net/posts/migrating-onenote-to-joplin/<h2 id="getting-your-notes-out-of-onenote">Getting your notes out of OneNote</h2> <p>Getting data out of OneNote is the part of this migration where Microsoft makes you work for it. Unlike OneDrive - where the desktop client will happily sync the entire tree to disk on demand - OneNote has no equivalent &ldquo;export everything&rdquo; command. The native export options are notebook-by-notebook, section-by-section, and the formats they offer (<code>.one</code> proprietary, <code>.docx</code>, <code>.pdf</code>, <code>.mht</code>) are either useless to Joplin or lossy on the way through. The route I took was OneNote desktop on Windows exporting to <code>.one</code> files, then Joplin&rsquo;s native OneNote import on the other side.</p>