onenote-md-exporter VS ConvertOneNote2MarkDown

The situation isn’t as bad as it would be for a cloud only service though. As long as you have backups, you can open the “.one” files with OneNote even if you have no access to OneDrive or sync. You can also use an external tool like the OneNote markdown exporter (https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter) to get a copy that at least has the basic content accessible outside of OneNote.

looks like it was this one: https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

Are you on Windows? I used this to migrate to Joplin before I started using Obsidian. It's a quick way to get your notes into markdown. Did a great job for mine.

By the way, I developed a tool to export OneNote notebook into Joplin export format or markdown format. Maybe it can help you to evaluate the different alternatives : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

For OneNote users wanting to evaluate or migrate to Obsidian, you can give a try to the exporting tool that I have developed. It is available on GitHub : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter . If you encounter any issue or missing feature, you can open an issue on GitHub. Hope it can help some people.

I have just published the 1.0 version which is pretty stable and complete. It is available here: https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter

Not answering any of your questions but If you are looking for a way to migrate your onenote notebooks into Joplin, you may be interested by this tool that I have developed : https://github.com/alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter .

I believe this was the repo I installed and ran. It can be slow depending upon how much OneNote content you have, and it isn’t perfectly clean MD (it generated HTML if it can’t convert it to MD) but most of my notes came through fine: https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2MarkDown

I've been wanting to make the jump from OneNote to Obsidian a few times in the last year. Did make some tryouts three times, each time converting all my OneNote notes to Markdown using this script. But each time I abandonned after a week or two 'cause I had too much of a work to do to get my notes organised, readable etc.

I’ve used this before — https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2MarkDown

https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2MarkDown this tool, using VS code, and quite alot of manual labor, but my autistic self hyper fixated on it so it wasn't a issue

https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2Markdown refs. to https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options which offers a wide range of output options alongside .md, .org and .rst (reStructuredText) f.ex. so that's also useful for some of us

OneWayOut is built on the foundation of ConvertOneNote2Markdown (https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2Markdown), by SjoerdV (https://github.com/SjoerdV), and improved by nixsee (https://github.com/nixsee/) and theohbrothers (https://github.com/theohbrothers).

- Other markup elements such as horizontal lines, custom indentations and formatting, and whatever else you might be able to conjure up with the text in your notes

OneWayOut is built on the foundation of ConvertOneNote2Markdown (https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2Markdown), by SjoerdV (https://github.com/SjoerdV), and improved by nixsee (https://github.com/nixsee/) and theohbrothers (https://github.com/theohbrothers).

Got a lot to learn so all feedback or suggestions are welcome! Thanks for checking it out :)

I've used the 2 window method and dragged and dropped in the past. It's ok for doing relatively small numbers of notes, but still clumsy. With the hundreds of notes I'm looking to sort and organize, looking for something that will speed this up. Currently looking atporting out to markdown, organizing with file organization tools in Windows, and then maybe porting back in.