Macos – how to backup MS OneNote notebooks (on Mac OSX)

NTFS provides a functionality called symbolic link kind of like a hard-link (Not a shortcut) you can place links to your Notebooks folder in your Backup Folder which will then automatically sync. Here's a utility that can create Junctions for you: Junction

To create a junction c:\Skydrive\MyNotes for "c:\My Docs\NyNotes":

Create Directory:

C:\Skydrive>md MyNotes

Create junction:

C:\>junction c:\Skydrive\MyNotes "c:\My Docs\MyNotes"

Now everything in MyDocs\MyNotes is also (technically) in Skydrive\MyNotes - And automatically synced!

Here's a right-key click solution for the problem, no command line required: NTFSLink

As far as I can tell, there is no way to get your notes out of OneNote on a Mac other than printing to PDF.

The Instructions above for emailing notes from OneNote will not work on a Mac. Here is a picture from the instructions on how to email notes from within OneNote:

Here is a screen shot of OneNote on a Mac:

The OneNote documentation seems to be only relevant to the Windows platforms. There are other ways that OneNote for the Mac is a crippled version of the original, but it gets a little better with each release.