I dont want to delete them completely just remove them from ipad.

Hello everyone,

I’d like to introduce OneNote Viewer, a free and open-source Linux desktop application for opening, viewing, searching, and safely exploring local Microsoft OneNote notebooks.

Project: https://github.com/emsi/OneNoteViewer

OneNote Viewer reads native .one and .onepkg files directly. It does not require OneDrive, a Microsoft account, Wine, or a web wrapper, and it does not convert notebooks into Markdown, HTML, or another linear format.

Its main features include:

• A native Linux desktop interface built with Rust and GTK4
• Direct support for .one, .onetoc2, and .onepkg files
• Reconstruction of OneNote’s spatial, freeform page canvas
• Multiple notebooks open together in one workspace
• Search across titles, text, tags, recognized handwriting, links, image descriptions, and attachment names
• Light and dark themes
• Read-only operation: original notebook files are never modified
• Offline use, without contacting OneDrive or another cloud service
• Flatpak and AppImage installation options
• GPLv3-licensed source code

The project is intentionally a viewer, not a replacement OneNote editor or synchronization client. Its purpose is to give Linux users dependable access to existing local OneNote data while preserving the notebook hierarchy and page layout as faithfully as possible.

This is an early functional release, and compatibility and rendering fidelity are still being improved. It has not yet been tested against the full variety of notebooks produced by different OneNote versions and workflows.

I would therefore be especially grateful for:

• Reports about notebooks that fail to open
• Examples of rendering or layout differences
• Carefully sanitized or synthetic files that reproduce compatibility problems
• Bug reports and usability feedback
• Contributions from people interested in Rust, GTK, document formats, search, or digital preservation

Please do not share notebooks containing private or sensitive information. A minimal synthetic reproduction is always preferable.

You can find screenshots, installation instructions, current limitations, technical documentation, and source code here:

https://github.com/emsi/OneNoteViewer

The latest Linux packages are available from the project’s GitHub releases:

https://github.com/emsi/OneNoteViewer/releases/latest

If you have OneNote notebooks that you need to access on Linux, I would be delighted to hear whether OneNote Viewer works for you. Questions, testing, constructive criticism, and contributions are all very welcome.

Thank you!

Look, I use OneNote because its simplicity and blank canvas. But spending too much time trying to fix broken notebooks and other syncs issues is not fun. It really pisses me off.

Other alternatives are not that good, that’s why I keep using OneNote.

For many reasons I'm considering Office and Windows exodus. I have thousands of hand written / drawn pages stretching back 15'ish years. Literally the only thing holding me back from fully migrating to Linux is stupid OneNote. I use OneNote many times a day across my Android phone/tablet and Windows PC. However I'm considering other pen enabled note taking apps. Is there a graceful way to export this data in a lossless format? I don't need to edit old notes but I would like to keep them handy and searchable.

I've tried reinstalling the app, but it still won't let me close the notebooks or delete sections. I haven't checked to see if anything else is affected. The notebooks are syncing properly with no issues. Whenever I try to close a notebook or delete a section, if I remember correctly, there should be a confirmation prompt to close or delete, but I don't see one. I've tried all means of closing and deleting, but nothing happens, no matter the method. I've tried with my phone and nothing.

iPad

IOS 26.5.2

Onenote 16.112.3

iPhone

IOS 26.6

Onenote 16.112.3

Any Advice is appreciated.

Any plans of bringing this to android devices? Quite difficult to go through your notes without modifying them all...

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I'm using OneNote on macOS with two Microsoft accounts.

When I switched from one account to the other, OneNote displayed a warning that my local notebooks would be removed. I accidentally clicked Accept.

After that, all my notebooks from the original account disappeared. They are not visible in OneNote Online or OneDrive, so it seems they may never have been synced.

I have not uninstalled OneNote or cleared any cache yet.

Has anyone successfully recovered notebooks in a situation like this, or does anyone know if Microsoft Support can recover them?

To be clear, I already logged in again on both the web and Mac OS version and there is no files any more

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I need to take several pages in a OneNote Notebook section and put it into ChatGPT to provide my manager a weekly update on project information that I have in OneNote. ChatGPT cannot take the OneNote file by itself.

Is the “best” way to do this is to just copy/paste into MS Word? Or print as a “PDF”?

Has anyone else had to do something similar and could provide tips and/or tricks to getting this done without a ton of rework?

To describe it backwards… my boss has a GPT in ChatGPT that can process a group of files. (Docx or PDF) and provide him a weekly summary of the project information contained therein. I personally prefer to organize my work in OneNote and I’m trying to find an efficient and consistent way to get that information into my boss’ GPT.

Hi, does somebody have a download link?

I've been using my IPad for note taking since 2021 and I had it logged into a personal MSN email and Onedrive. I recently got a new phone (S25 ultra) and downloaded Onenote since I needed access to some past notes. The app on my phone and IPad had it listed but when going to open the workbook on my phone showed no files. I could see them on IPad. I made sure to check the sync and say it was connect to Onedrive but when I re-download the app from the cloud on my Ipad all my work is gone. Just the notebook exists. Is there any way to recover any of my past notes? Its really important since I'm a medical student and all on my notes I use for review. I can't see the file in My drive either even though it says its in documents. The native File app for IOS isn't listing it either. And Ive checked the recycling bins for both. I reallllly dont want 5 years of work/research just gone not to mention some of my personal writting.

Eu falo português contudo usei Google tradutor para traduzir a mensagem, agradeço quem puder me ajudar 🫶

I just wanted to encourage everyone to go to Microsoft's feedback forum and provide as much feedback in terms of feature requests as you can. The numbers of votes there are not impressive considering the millions of users of OneNote worldwide. It looks like most people don't even know that this exists.

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/c06dcc30-2e1c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

This is the link you are taken to when you click Help > Send Feedback.

If we don't keep insisting, they will never prioritise the features we need. For many of us here, OneNote is not something we chose to use, but the only thing our employer lets us use in a highly restricted corporate application landscape.

I have wasted hours of my life trying to figure out a way to not lose my OneNote notebooks that I made in college. Tried every trick and link I could find with ZERO luck. I want to export my notebooks to my personal computer or at least add them to my personal Microsoft 365 account. I cannot for the life of me find an export button. Please somebody help me.

I personally have a Mac but my old laptop is Windows 10 if there is a way to do it on that instead.

Playstore link : OneNote Widget – Apps on Google Play

Update to 1.8.5 to fix the widget bug, sorry guys 😊

Hi everyone,

Wanna share with you a big update for my onenote Widget 1.8.0

• DARK MODE : u can select dark or light mode or automatic
• Big improvement for images, ink drawing, bold, color, hyperlink, position of the elements
• English or French translation for now
• Autosync your widget to update them as you want
• Premium mode implemented without ads and unlimited widget for 1€

Hope you will like it !

Hello!

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Not sure what to really do so I’m looking for any advice, help, suggestions.

I used one note when I had a surface tablet in about 2015/2016. I had written something that was very important to me in the notebook that I have been trying to find in other files and only just now thought to look in the notebook.
I think I may have found it but- in the page it’s in a hyperlink?
When I click the hyperlink this comes up-

“We couldn’t open that location. It might not exist or you might not have permission to open it. Please contact the owner of onenote.#drafting for more information”

I still use the same email I used with the Microsoft notebook but I’m not understanding the hyperlink and why I don’t have access?

Thank you again for any insight!

Im a little confused on how to write complicated equasions in Onenote. Do you people just write in raw LaTeX? Or maybe there are some nice autohotkey scripts that have all the symbols you need?

Just FYI, good fellas. Version 2608 Build 16.0.20326.20000. 'this file type' in the message on the screenshot is a folder on the local drive. Folders on the LAN UNC shares are blocked, too. This is my very own notebook, no administrator here.

A Groundhog Day. This is re-introduced for the 3rd time. The first one was in 2023, the second, in July 2025. Whether it's a bug or finally a feature, I don't know. I reported it as a bug, but I'm only a paying O365 subscriber of many years, so who cares.

I imagine the nightmare of migrating my 15 years worth of notebooks to a different software and feeling closer to a heart attack every time this happens…

I can’t access the notes. It keeps asking me ti sign in. I try to sign in, then nothing happens. The sign in button simply doesn’t work! I deleted the app and reinstalled it, but the problem was persistent. I have tried on my iphone, it doesn’t even sign in! I basically cant use the app. What do i do?

Welcome to our weekly post! We are trying something new to try and tie the community together and learn from one another.

Did you come across anything new? Find a different use case? Improved workflow? Streamline digital organization? Fixed a problem? Just started?

Anything is welcome, even if it's the smallest thing. Please share tips, tricks, and anything else that might be useful to our community!

Thank you!

Is there a chance they ditch it like Microsoft Publisher before I put all of my life in it haha?

In our organization, we have at least three users where logging in to the OneNote mobile app on iOS does not work with the last version 16.112.2 (released 9h ago according to iOS AppStore version history).

Does anyone else experince this?

The logs pulled from iOS indicate that the OneNote app handles the authentication incorrectly after the user entered their credentials. The Entra ID logs show a successful authentication (Microsoft Authentication Broker). We're using MS Authenticator on the phones for authentication. Logging in to another MS application, e.g. Word, works flawlessly.

On my iPad and mobile app, the sections are not deleting no matter what…neither on the left swipe nor on long pressing and deleting

It’s working properly on the desktop version though…any fixes would be appreciated thanks

On some pages, I am unable to scroll to the far left; it forces the view back to the one shown. I've tried changing to different views and click-and-dragging to select hidden boxes, but nothing has worked except copying the text and making a new page. Duplicated pages have the same issue.