OneNote Template

Question

Hi there,

Is there any way to set up a OneNote Book template. As in, open a new Notebook with the desired sections and pages already there? This would be used on both Mac and Windows 10. 

Kind Regards

Answer 1

Just found a new way. Did not fully test it yet but to my surprise it seems to work:

Create your template notebook on OneDrive

In the Web frontent (using your browser) copy the notebook file to another location or to the same folder (a (1) will be added to the name then)

Although that "file" ist just a symbolic link to hidden real ONE files those seem to be recreated/copied as well

So you can just rename the new copy and get a notebook which structure and content is based on the original one.

As I said: not fully tested yet but i can see no drawbacks up to now.

Answer 2

There is no such option in any OneNote. You can only achieve it using OneNote 2013/2016 from the MS Office suite for Windows (not the free OneNote 2016): Create your notebook structure and export it as ONEPKG file. Every time you need a new notebook with that structure, start the ONEPKG from the Explorer which will open OneNote (2016 for Windows) and ask you for the name of a new notebook where the ONEPKG will be imported into, such recreating the structure of the ONEPKG in a new notebook.

That new notebook may of course be moved to OneDrive or OneDrive for Business to access it with OneNote for macOS, iOS, Android or the Win 10 app.

Note that the original "template notebook" needs to contain at least one page which may be empty. Otherwise the export will not work.

Answer 3

Yeah that seems to work too. Wonderful!! I'll test both out and check which works easier. Thanks a lot for your time spent in helping me :) You're the best!!

Answer 4

That's awesome!! Thank you so much!!