Close all notebooks that you DON’T want to export.

Open OneNote as Admin (right-click on the OneNote icon in startmenu, choose ‘Run as Administrator’).

You will probably need to tweak the export some times before you’re satisfied and thus you might need to re-type the path.

Unzip the downloaded ConvertOneNote2MarkDown4Obsidian-zip in a folder with an ‘easy to remember’-path.

Create a clean, short, absolute file path for the script to work in, in root.

Get ConvertOneNote2MarkDown4Obsidian - rab-bit fork.

(relevant macro to run is attached in Convert…4Obsidian-package below) Install stand-alone desktop OneNote, NOT web version: Free of charge.Windows PowerShell (Core functionality on win10-machines).Basic commandline proficiency (ie know how to navigate to/run a specific folder/program in a PowerShell/command line environment (cd /cd… ).I’ve incorporated those I found was vital in the instructions below. Huge thanks to the creators of the assorted scripts, details of functionality and further installation instructions can be read on the respective resource pages.

md notes… you’re not starting from scratch!

You WILL have to clean up a bit inside Obsidian after the export, but at least the note file structure and data are freed up into. This exact workflow exported my 2000-ish OneNotes and embedded files, with retained structure links (phew!). … but all my notes are locked up in M$ jail and there are NO way I’m gonna manually export those, one by one… HAAAALP!įear not, the Obsidian community to the rescue! How to migrate many OneNotes to Obsidian from scratch (2k+ files)Īn avid OneNoter for years that just found Obsidian and finally found THE(?) tool to actually see/connect what you did before?

Export onenote notebook