README.md

onenote_to_markdown

Script to convert MS OneNote for Windows 10 notebooks to directories of markdown files. This can be helpful when moving from MS OneNote to Joplin.

How to use

1. Select and copy all the notes in the OneNote notebooks you would like to convert to markdown files
2. Save each notebook in a single directory as its own text file with the notebook name as the name of the text file
3. Make sure Python 3 is installed on your machine
4. Open command prompt and run pip install win32_setctime and pip install pytz
5. run python converter.py '/path/to/your/text/files'
6. Onenote notes are now converted to markdown files in the supplied path
7. To import the files to Joplin. Open Joplin and go to File->Import->MD - Markdown Directory and select the directories you would like to import

Notes

• The modified and created dates of the output markdown files are set as the created date of the OneNote notes
• This script was only tested on Microsoft OneNote for Windows 10 and Python 3.7