Evernote captured the lion share of the note-taking market for several years. The first note-taking tool I ever committed to was Evernote back in 2009. My journey with digital note-taking has been a storied one.

My Journey from Evernote to OneNote to Apple Notes I don’t miss all the extra bells and whistles of OneNote. For me, having a simplified interface and reliable syncing between my Apple devices is key. Overall, the move to Apple Notes has been a good one. There’s no way to link between different notes.I wish Apple Notes had smart folders so I could quickly find things like the most recently edited notes across all folders. No back/forward buttons to navigate between notes.2021 update: Apple Notes now supports #tags which is great for more advanced organization.Apple Notes strikes a great blend between simplicity and useful features.Syncing between devices is faster and more reliable.Here are some lessons learned after migrated to Apple Notes. And since Evernote is more flexible in its export process, you can actually use it to convert your OneNote notes to a format (.enex) that Apple Notes can import. However, Evernote has a built in tool to migrate files from OneNote. Unfortunately OneNote doesn’t provide a viable export option that you can use with Apple Notes. Yes, we’re actually using a third tool, Evernote, to make this happen. (In Evernote the equivalent is a “notebook”)

enex files for each previous OneNote section.

Use Evernote to import notes from OneNote, one section at a time.

In summary, the process has three major steps. It’s a fairly tedious process, but it’s doable with a little bit of effort and time! How to migrate from OneNote to Apple Notes In this post I will share how I was able to migrate from OneNote to Apple Notes.

Import onenote to evernote