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How about giving Mac users the option to locally store their notebooks just like PC users get? If not why do you charge the same for a less feature rich product?

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  • bloop commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Do this please. I lost all of my Bachelor's degree notes because I trusted OneNote.

  • Andrew Ballard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I work for a pretty big University and we can't sync anything to the OneDrive cloud due to the policies surrounding sensitive data. I'm the primary MacAdmin and can't open the locally stored OneNote notebook that is shared among my department. This product is useless to me until I can open these OneNote files and remain offline and not synched to the cloud.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The lack of features on macOS from Microsoft almost demand an anti-trust probe. It's ridiculous.

  • Toby commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Offering Mac users different functionality than PC users is just weird and raises questions. It doesn't encourage mac users to purchase Microsoft Software.
    Mac users are just going download alternative software from the App Store and Microsoft will have less market share.
    Frustrating as I am used to using Microsoft Software and don't really want to learn something new, so if I do change I am unlikely to come back.
    We shouldn't need to be here begging for functionality that exists on the PC.
    Please make the software identical.

  • Feedback commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great to have a backup for OneNote. My work is very important - I am a senior doctor working for a large organisation. If I am ever loose my OneNote work due to the absence of a backup, I will remove Microsoft products from our organisation on the grounds of unreliability. Which is a shame because, although we use Apple devices, we prefer Microsoft Office/385 products.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with the rest of these comments - I recently bought a MAC and want to use OneNote to plan my backpacking adventure in NZ where I won't always have wifi access.... so thanks Microsoft for ruining that for me I look forward to spending 5months scrolling through pages on ****** Microsoft Word.

  • Vitaly commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm sure someone already mentioned this (it hard to read all 1014 comments), but there is a solution for this problem. It is called Outline for Mac. It can store your OneNotebooks locally. You can use it instead of OneNote or simultaneously with OneNote.
    I'm from the company who made it. App is paid. We created 33% discount for fellows who need local storage :-) use "localnotebooks" promo code when purchasing from Outline Store.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to save local is vital. I'd rather pay for this than the friggin' cloud. We really dislike it, it's a wrong approach for corporate data and we can't use onenote for our business because of it. So please stop forcing it down our throats.

  • Mark commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have hundreds of OneNote notebooks on local corporate file server. We DO NOT HAVE PLANS to move to Cloud Storage. We have users on Windows PCs who use these notebooks to collaborate on information and we have not been able to find a way for MAC users to do the same as OneNote for Mac version 16 does not allow opening notebooks from a local storage. Can you PLEASE implement this in the product so that we can continue enjoying the benefits of the product while using local document and data file storage? Thank you

    EDIT: Running Windows version of OneNote in Parallels or VMWare is NOT AN OPTION for us due to some constraints and policies I will not explain here, not mentioning the impact to user experience, training and support, etc.

  • Morgan Putnam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    At the very least proactively alert those of us who are switching from a PC to a Mac that we can't store the files locally, instead of letting us flail about trying to get local access through various methods of file sharing and/or export. A simple pop up would go a long way

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I was considering using onenote for a big project, but ruled it out for exactly this reason.

  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I grew increasingly uncomfortable with OneNote and not having local copies and local backup for a myriad of reasons.

    Bought a MacBook Pro and switched over to DEVONthink 3.
    I wished I had found this software sooner its the best information management software available.
    Local databases with many syncing options, its awesome.
    I use it with notability. When I am finished with the hand written note, I export it as pdf to DEVONthink and file accordingly.

    I truly could not be happier!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thanks for missing the point completely - no local notebooks, no point in having the program.

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