Tried to convert from Evernote - What am I doing wrong?
After Evernote's new pricing scheme, I decided to give OneNote a go. I ran the MS supplied converter as a start. That placed every single individual notebook in its own file in OneDrive. Is this intentional?
The main point (for me) withh Evernote is that I can see all Notebooks I have on the left hand side of the screen. Switching between them is a single click and takes less than a second.
In OneNote, I do the following (NB! I use a non-English version of OneNote, so the terms may not be exactly the ones I list below):
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Click File
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Click Open
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Click Open from other location - OneDrive
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Scroll down to Notebooks folder, double click on that
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Scroll down to the correct Notebook (as only 11 are shown on screen, even though there is easily room for 50), double click that
It then takes a few seconds to open. In total, this takes 15-20 seconds and gives me zero overview of my Notebooks.
Clearly I am missing something here. What? How is this supposed to work? I'm using OneNote 2016 on Win 10.
Edit: formatting
Posted Jul 29, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC
Once you open a notebook in OneNote 2016 it should just appear on the navigation pane on the left side without having to be re-opened.
By default the notebook navigation pane is collapsed but you can expand it and click the push-pin to pin it open. That may give you more of the experience you're hoping for.
Thanks! That did improve things quite a bit. I still like Evernote's idea of having everything in a single file, but I can see how that becomes an issue for collaboration and sharing. (Something I never do with my notes, but I do get that everything must be "social" these days.)
Once you've got the notes into OneNote you could always move them around and consolidate a bit. They don't have to stay in multiple notebooks necessarily. Right-click the section tab at the top and choose "Move or Copy" and you can move sections into other notebooks to consolidate.
Splitting it in several files has benefits when you use onedrive to sync the Notebooks, too - if your Notebooks get too large, syncing takes ages. Smaller notebooks are much snappier when syncing.
This, and also it allows you to control what data you want to store offline on your mobile device. Any notebook you open on iPad is locally stored, so if you have 20GB worth of data, you will run out of space in no time. When you close the notebook, that space gets released. I keep all of my non-essential, historic stuff in a few "Archive" files so I only open them when needed. Evernote, AFAIK, had the same level of offline control for Premium accounts - you put whatever you wanted to store locally in a separate notebook.