OneNote consists of three main hierarchical levels: Notebooks are the holders of all the items you deem worthy as notes. You can store notebooks on the computer (only in OneNote 2016) and OneDrive. Sections provide a level of organization within a notebook that corresponds to individual projects or subjects. Note: Exporting and importing notebooks through OneNote for the web is only available for notebooks stored on personal OneDrive accounts, not for notebooks stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint.For information about exporting notebooks to PDF files from OneNote 2016 for Windows, see Export notes from OneNote as a PDF.

Outline is fully compatible with Microsoft OneNote.
Here are a couple of scenarios of how you can share your notes with your OneNote users.
I. NO SYNC NEEDED:

Importing PDF to OneNote. There are two simple ways to add a PDF file to a OneNote note. OneNote automatically syncs your notes. Alternatively, you can choose to sync notebooks manually. Select the Navigation button in the upper-left corner of the window. Select the arrow next to the name of the current notebook. Right-click the notebook you want to sync. Select Sync and choose Sync This Notebook or Sync All Notebooks. The ‘Paper size’ in OneNote is set to ‘Auto’ by default. So in this type of page, you will not be able to find the end as it keeps on going as long as you type. So, you may change the ‘Paper size’ format like ‘letter’, ‘A4’ etc. Which will give the start and end of the page.

Share the local notebook with Windows OneNote (available for OneNote 2016 only)

Just send your whole Outline notebook to your colleague/friend.

Locate your notebook via Finder, right-click on the folder containing it > compress > send it to the recipient.

Same option is available for separate sections: In your notebook's folder in Finder, right-click on a section you want to send (.one file) and mail it to the recipient.

Note: For a notebook stored on iOS devices, get its folder to Mac/PC through iTunes/third-party cloud storages first.

II. SYNC YOUR NOTES WITH ONE NOTE

Note: MS Cloud services support only OneNote format of the notebook. If you have your notes in oldOutline format, please convert them!

OneNote 2016 allows opening notebooks from third-party cloud storages. Just place the folder of your notebook to your cloud storage folder in Finder and share the folder using storage web client. Learn more about cloud storages here

Later OneNote versions allow only MS cloud synchronisation.

If you want to sync your OneNote notebook to Outline,

1) place it in OneDrive/SharePoint/WebDav cloud storage,

2) Link your cloud storage to Outline in Outline's Preferences

3) open the notebook in Outline via + button.

As Mac OneNote doesn't allow storing the notebooks locally and uploading the local notebooks to OneDrive from Mac, the only way of moving the local Mac Outline notebooks to OneDrive is to create a new notebook on OneDrive (for example, through web OneNote), open it in Outline (via + button) and move all the sections from your Outline notebook to this new OneDrive notebook.

Note: For iOS devices simply change the location of your notebook to the cloud storage of your choice in it's properties. Please mind that once you share your notebook to MS Clouds on iOS devices, it is no longer available for sharing to other services.The only way to get it shared to some other storage is to change the format to Outline's and choose another sharing option.

Migration from OneNote to Outline

In case you want to migrate from OneNote completely and have your data in Outline only, the best way to do this is the following:

1. Place your notebook to OneDrive on your PC or from Web OneNote;

2. On your Mac, in Finder search for Storageone in This Mac

In this folder you shall find the folders with your notebooks.

3. Copy these folders to the storage of your choice and re-open them in Outline.

Note: Outline for iPad doesn't keep copies of local notebooks in its system. If you close a local notebook it will be deleted from your device.

Another way is to send your notebook as a package. Export it as a package in your OneNote, send it via email and open the package in Outline.

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• You can save a OneNote notebook as a PDF, but if you update the notebook, those changes will not be reflected in the PDF.
• To save the OneNote notebook as a PDF, choose 'Print' from the menu at the OneNote window's top right.
• If you have an older version of OneNote, you'll find the PDF option in the Export menu in the left sidebar.
• The process for saving an entire OneNote notebook, section, or page as a PDF is the same.
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Onenote Outlines

OneNote is a convenient tool for doing research, taking notes, and organizing information. Occasionally, you might want to share these notes with someone else, but you don't want the recipient to make changes to your content.

Instead of using OneNote's Share feature, you can save a notebook as a PDF instead. OneNote lets you share the entire notebook as a PDF, just a section, or even a single page.

Keep in mind that if you update a notebook, the changes will not be reflected in the PDF. You should also be careful to select just the part of the notebook you want to save as a PDF – if you only intend to save a page as a PDF but save an entire section, for example, you might share information you didn't mean to with someone.

If you're ready to share your OneNote notebook as a PDF, here's how to do it.

Onenote Outline Template

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How to save a OneNote as a PDF

1. Launch OneNote.

2. Open the notebook you want to share by clicking the currently selected notebook and choosing the correct notebook from the drop-down menu.

Onenote Outline View

3. If you are sharing the entire notebook, go to the next step. Otherwise, navigate to the part of the notebook you want to share.

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4. Click the three dots at the top right of the window and choose 'Print.'

5. In the Print window under the Printer section, click the currently selected printer and then, in the drop-down menu, select 'Microsoft Print to PDF.'

6. In the Pages section, click the menu and choose whether you want to turn the current page, section, or notebook into a PDF.

Onenote Outline Format

7. Click 'Print.'

8. In the Save Print Output As dialog box, choose where to save your new PDF.

How to save OneNote as a PDF if you have an older version of OneNote

If you are using an older version of OneNote, the PDF feature might be located in a different place. If your version of OneNote has the sidebar menu on the left side of the screen with options for Info, New, Open, Print, Share, Export, and Send, click 'Export' and then follow the directions to choose the part of the document and the PDF option.

Onenote Outline Template

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