One Note For Mac El Capitan

Introduced in OS X version 10.8 (or as it’s more commonly called, “OS X Mountain Lion”), the Notes app was almost laughably bad. With one of the most ridiculous skeuomorphic user interfaces of all time, I hazard to guess no one used that app on a regular basis.

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  2. Oct 12, 2015  Microsoft's OneNote 2016 is one of the top-drawer note-taking apps for OS X.Pros Available everywhere: Well, not quite everywhere. Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. OS X El Capitan.

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Fast forward 4 years and 3 OS versions later, and the Notes app has become much more respectable. Today Notes can proudly face-off against strong third-party options like Microsoft OneNote or Evernote. Now, that isn’t to say that Notes does everything you could ever dream of in a notes app, but it does enough to be useful to a large majority of people out there.

If you’re curious to know if Notes in OS X El Capitan is the notes app you’ve always been looking for, let me walk you through some of its features.

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The Writing Environment

Notes in OS X El Capitan has a very straight-forward user interface. The 3-column UI design is found across a wide variety of apps on OS X, so it gives the app some intuitive properties that previous skeuomorphic designs lacked. Moving across the UI, I’ll explain the various sections and buttons:

  1. Folder List — This view allows you to choose between your various folders. Selecting a folder changes what appears in the Note List. From the Folder List you can do a lot which we’ll cover in more detail in a moment.
  2. Note List — This lists out whatever notes are within the selected folder.
  3. Note View — This shows the currently selected note, and is the area where you can actually write.
  4. Folder List Toggle — This button toggles the visibility of the Folder List if you’re interested in a more distraction-free writing environment.
  5. Attachment View Toggle — This button toggles the Attachment View, which we’ll talk about more in a bit.
  6. Delete Note — Sends the currently selected note into the trash.
  7. New Note — Creates a new note within the currently selected folder.
  8. Insert Checkbox — This is a new feature of Notes in OS X El Capitan, and it allows you to insert a checkbox. That checkbox can then be toggled back and forth as much as you’d like. It’s a faster and more useful way to create a quick to-do list on the fly.
  9. Heading Selector — Another new feature of Notes, this lets you assign pre-designed headings to the content in your note. There’s just enough options here to be useful, but not so many that it gets confusing.
  10. Insert Attachment — This button opens up a floating window which gives you access to images found in either the Photos app or the Photo Booth app.
  11. Share Sheet — Found across both iOS and OS X these days, this share sheet behaves as expected, giving you a list of options where you can “share” your note.

Organizing Your Notes

The Folder List view actually allows for a lot of different things. You can create new folders, re-arrange the order in which they’re listed, or rename pre-existing ones. In fact, you can take things one step further, and drag folders inside other folders to create a nested structure.

This sort of customizable folder structure really elevates Notes and lets you reasonably store a whole lot more notes than you might otherwise.

Attachments and Notes

The Attachment View is another new feature that really increases the utility of Notes. You can attach a wide variety of different file types to your notes. The easiest way to do this is by dragging and dropping the files from a Finder window into the Note View.

From the Attachment View you can get a feel for all the different attachments you have across your library of notes.

I really think that the new Notes app released in OS X El Capitan is a significant improvement. It elevates what seemed at first to be a purposeless app designed to simulate parity with iOS into a full-featured digital notebook capable of meeting the note-taking needs of most people.

Obsessed with tech since the early arrival of A/UX on Apple, Sudz (SK) is responsible for the editorial direction of AppleToolBox. He is based out of Los Angeles, CA.

Sudz specializes in covering all things macOS, having reviewed dozens of OS X and macOS developments over the years.

In a former life, Sudz worked helping Fortune 100 companies with their technology and business transformation aspirations.

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Note: The importer software described on this page is still available for you to download and use, but we’re no longer actively developing or supporting this tool.

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This article outlines the steps required to import your notes from Evernote to OneNote for Mac and offers answers to questions you might have about transferring your content.

The OneNote Importer finds any Evernote content on your Mac and sends it to OneNote. You can choose any Microsoft Account to use with OneNote, no matter if it’s a personal Hotmail, Live.com, or Outlook.com account, or a Microsoft Account given to you by your work or your school. You likely already have such an account, but you can just as easily create a new one for free.

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If you only ever use Evernote on the Web, we recommend exporting your notes from Evernote for Mac or Windows to an Evernote export (.enex) file.

Before you begin

Here is what you’ll need to import your Evernote notes into OneNote for Mac:

  • Any Mac running OS X El Capitan version 10.11 or later (required).

  • Evernote for Mac (optional, but this speeds up the migration process).
    If you have Evernote for Mac installed, sign in with your Evernote account, and then make sure that your latest notes are completely synced before you begin importing to OneNote.

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How to use the OneNote Importer

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When you’re ready to import your notes from Evernote to OneNote, do the following:

  1. On your Mac that has Evernote installed, visit https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote and then click Download the Importer. Your download of the OneNote Importer should start automatically.

    Note: If you get an alert that the OneNote Importer is from an unidentified developer, navigate to your Mac’s System Preferences > Security and Privacy, and then select the option to open the Importer from there.

  2. When the OneNote Importer has finished downloading, double-click the installer file on your Mac, and then follow the prompts:

    • Accept the End User License Agreement.

    • If you have Evernote for Mac installed and you have all of your notes synced locally, then the OneNote Importer will automatically discover your Evernote notebooks. From the list that is displayed, select the Evernote notebooks that you want to import into OneNote.

      Important: The OneNote Importer won’t be able to automatically locate your notes if you originally installed Evernote from the Mac App Store. You’ll need to download and install Evernote for Mac directly from the Evernote website for the OneNote Importer to successfully find and import your notes. Alternately, you can import notes from an Evernote export (.enex) file that you can create with your current version of Evernote (see the FAQ below if you need help with creating this file). To start importing, click Import a file instead in the OneNote Importer, and then select the .enex file that contains your Evernote notes.

      Tip: To speed up the migration process, we recommend splitting up any Evernote notebook that’s bigger than 1GB into smaller notebooks before importing.

    • Select the Microsoft Account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com) that you want to use with OneNote, or an account given to you by your work or your school.

  3. Click Import. As soon as the process is complete, you can view your notes in OneNote for Mac (you can download it here if you don’t already have it).

  4. When you start OneNote after importing notes, your most recent Evernote notebook will be displayed. You can manually open other notebooks to see the rest of your notes.

As soon as you finish importing notes into OneNote, you can easily access them on the Web as well as Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to install OneNote on all of your devices.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Below are answers to some common questions about the OneNote Importer. If your question isn’t listed here, please leave it in the “Was this information helpful?” feedback form at the end of this article.

  • Does Evernote need to be installed?
    No, Evernote does not need to be installed if you already have an exported Evernote file (.enex) of your notes. However, importing notes is a bit faster on a Mac that has Evernote installed because you won’t need to first export your notes to a file.

  • What happens if Evernote isn’t installed?
    You can import notes with an exported Evernote (.enex) file.

  • My Evernote notebooks weren’t detected automatically. What happened?
    Try the following:

    • Be sure that you have downloaded and installed Evernote from the Evernote website (not the Mac App Store version) for the importer to automatically detect your notes. If you previously downloaded Evernote from the Mac App Store, uninstall the Mac App Store version, and then install Evernote for Mac from the Evernote website. Sign in, sync your notes, and then try running the OneNote Importer again.

    • OneNote can’t detect Evernote notebooks if a dialog box is open in Evernote. Check to see if any dialog boxes or screen prompts are open in Evernote and then close them before running the OneNote Importer again.

    If you’re still having issues, try quitting Evernote and then running the OneNote Importer again.

  • How do I generate an exported Evernote file?
    From any Mac or Windows PC that has Evernote installed, start Evernote, select the notes you want to export, and then click File > Export to to save them to an .enex file. Transfer this file to the Mac on which you want to run the OneNote Importer.

  • Are any file types other than .enex files supported for import?
    No, not at this time.

  • Does this work for Evernote Plus and Evernote Premium?
    Yes, you can use notes from either version of Evernote.

  • Does OneNote need to be installed?
    No, we’ll do the import through cloud magic. However, you can choose to install OneNote at any time from https://www.onenote.com/download.

  • Can I import notes to OneNote and have them stored locally on my Mac?
    No, you’ll need to use a free Microsoft Account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com) to import and use your notes.

  • What account types are supported for storing notes in OneNote?
    You can sign in with a free personal Microsoft Account or an account given to you by your work or your school.

  • What will my notes look like in OneNote?
    We’ll create a new OneNote notebook for each Evernote notebook. Each Evernote page will be a page in OneNote. Optionally, you can also use Evernote tags to organize your notes within your notebook. Each tag will become a section in OneNote that contains the pages that are tagged with that term.

  • What happens if I have Evernote pages with multiple tags? Will I get duplicate pages in OneNote?
    No, we’ll only look at the first tag to determine where we place that page. To make things easy to find, we’ll write every tag that you had in Evernote on the OneNote page so you can find everything easily through OneNote’s instant search.

  • Will attachments like PDF files and JPG images get imported?
    Yes, attachments like PDF files and images will be imported along with your notes.

  • Is there anything that won’t get imported?
    Some things like ink, encrypted text, background colors, and reminders will not show up in OneNote.

  • How long will the import take?
    Depending on how much content is being imported and the speed of your Internet connection, importing your notes may take just a few minutes to several hours. You’ll be shown a progress indicator during the import to give you an idea of the estimated amount of time remaining.

  • Why am I seeing a blank screen after I sign in?
    This is a known issue with low network connectivity. Please check your network connection and then try again.

  • How do I find my imported notebooks in OneNote?
    If you imported multiple notebooks , we will open one of your notebooks in OneNote. Follow these steps to open your other notebooks:

    OneNote for Mac — Click File > Open Notebook or press Command-O.

    OneNote for the web — Click the Notebooks button at the top of the left pane to see all of your notebooks.

  • What platforms is the OneNote Importer supported on?
    You can run the importer on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 or higher, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Stay tuned for news about support for additional platforms.

  • Do you have a converter for other note-taking applications?
    No, not at this time. Stay tuned for news about support for additional apps.

  • I’m getting the Error Code 10008 when using the OneNote Importer. How can I troubleshoot?
    This error occurs when your OneDrive, Group, or Document Library contains more than 5,000 items. Consider deleting some files you may no longer need and then try importing again. For more information about this error condition, see our related post on the OneNote Dev Blog.

  • Where can I learn more about OneNote?
    Head on over to http://www.onenote.com for more information about OneNote and to download any of the OneNote desktop and mobile apps.

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