https://github.com/Ben-Gillman/onenote_to_markdown

Script to convert MS Onenote notebooks to Joplin
https://github.com/Ben-Gillman/onenote_to_markdown

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Script to convert MS Onenote notebooks to Joplin

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Ben-Gillman/onenote_to_markdown
• Owner: Ben-Gillman
• Created: 2021-05-10T19:22:59.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-11T19:36:25.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:40:54.022Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# 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