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1. #Add google drive to onenote for mac cloud service update#
2. #Add google drive to onenote for mac cloud service windows 10#
3. #Add google drive to onenote for mac cloud service Offline#

Or completely remove the desktop version of OneNote (with Office 2019?), only leaving the Windows 10 app. Who can say that? And if they will, will they change it in the “right” direction or maybe also remove the option to store notebooks locally from OneNote for Windows. And given the first reason, it is very unlikely that Microsoft would put any effort in it. I bet this could not be easily reproduced on the MacOS or iOS file systems. Even locally stored notebooks (with OneNote for Windows/desktop only) are handled in a way that is close to that COBALT protocol. This is called COBALT or MS-FSHTTP by Microsoft and is only supported by Sharepoint and OneDrive. Because of the way how OneNote synchronizes data (only updating changes to single objects inside a file instead of the whole file), a special protocol is needed. The second reason is of a technical nature. Forcing OneNote users to the Microsoft cloud services is just a consequence of this new directive. In 2014 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared a change of course and that the future of Microsoft (products) would now lie in “Cloud first, mobile first”. But I am sure that there are two real reasons. I consider that half of the truth at best and mostly marketing twaddle. Well, if you ask any Microsoft representative, the usual answer is: “Because the cloud is better, safer and more reliable than any local drive”. So the point is: If you want to use OneNote on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows 10 mobile or the Windows 10 UWP app, you have to store your notebooks on OneDrive or OneDrive for Business.

#Add google drive to onenote for mac cloud service update#

Closing a notebook, resetting your OneNote settings or probably an upcoming app update will erase the local cache and delete all your notes without any recovery options. But I strongly advise against that method, because that cached copy is rather fragile. Yes, you could do that and the only obvious drawback would be a constant sync error that you could just ignore. Now it could come to your mind to create a notebook on OneDrive (notebooks can’t be created on your device while it is offline), open it on your Mac or iPad, delete the original file from OneDrive using your browser and from then on only work in that cached local copy.

#Add google drive to onenote for mac cloud service Offline#

But this offline cache is in a special format (binary files, all very split up) and only used by OneNote to temporary work with a copy to synchronize the content with the actual storage location later, when an internet connection is re-established. So the notes must be stored on the device, right? Yes, they are. But what about all OneNote apps being able to work offline?Īpparently, you can edit existing notes or add new ones without an active internet connection on any OneNote app and system.

I wrote this mainly to confirm that there is absolutely no way around these prerequisites. So if you are reading this article hoping for a workaround to use any OneNote app without a Microsoft account, an Office 365 subscription and OneDrive, I am sorry to disappoint you. You can’t even switch to another cloud service like Dropbox or Google Drive, because those don’t support the protocol needed for a correct note synchronization.

This can be OneDrive (personal) or OneDrive for business (aka Sharepoint Online, part of some Office 365 subscriptions). All other OneNote versions, so OneNote for MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows 8/10 mobile, OneNote Online and the Windows 10 app, require your notebooks to be stored on a cloud service by Microsoft. You can even share those notes with other users or devices (as long as they run the Office version of OneNote for Windows) if you set the proper access rights to the SharePoint library or network share. An alternative would be an on-premise Sharepoint server, which also works rather well at least with OneNote 2016 for Windows and OneNote Online (in the browser). So you can keep them on a local drive or a network share inside your organization. Let me start with the good one: The OneNote version for Windows that is installed with MS Office (2010, 2013, 2016) lets you freely choose the storage location for your notebook files. If you do not want to (or are not allowed to) store your OneNote notebooks in a public cloud service, I have a lot of bad and only one good news for you. Is there a way to bypass that restriction? Almost all existing OneNote versions require your notebooks to be stored in a Microsoft cloud service, namely OneDrive or OneDrive for Business.