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On Linux, what's the best way to convert a onenote.zip notebook to markdown or html? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I mainly use trillium and want to import my notes. Unsure how to do it without windows. Even with windows the instructions seem unclear

Edit: Here’s what I did: I got my partner’s windows computer and put my onenote notebook on it via file transfer. Then I made folders for every notebook and subnotebook. Finally I would through each section and exported it as a docx. Then I found an app on fedora that can convert docx to anything, and I chose markdown. Then imported these into Trilium. I could have exported each note but that would have taken 10x as long and the section export feature makes clear new notes.

Final comment: importing markdown into Trilium took one second. For formatting sake, I tried to import html as well and it crash the app.

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[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

The best way i found was obsidians import which was what i was trying to avoid. I was making standalone markdown files and after the import i needed to do some cleaning since obsidian or onenote did OCR on the images to create alt text but quotes in the alt text broke image links.

[–] VE7WYC@lemmy.radio 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obsidian saves in markdown format, and can import your OneNote in one shot.

https://help.obsidian.md/import/onenote

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Obsidian isn't open source, but it's so solid I almost don't care...

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

I did s bit of poking around. It looks like there's a tool on GitHub for this exact purpose, or you can just save to a .docx from OneNote then use pandoc to convert to markdown

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can convert using Evernote as an intermediary: https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Onenote

You'd need to hunt down a copy but there are mirrors since Evernote ended legacy version, and it'd need to be set up in wine to run in linux but it should do the job.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I tried that method with a VM and it got stuck trying to connect to internet even though it had access. Weird…

[–] Dungrad@feddit.org -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe https://duck.ai/? Worth a try.

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This lead to https://github.com/theohbrothers/ConvertOneNote2MarkDown

However, this has some restrictive OS requirements so it may not be applicable.

[–] Dungrad@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

:/ Sad.