This always happens when you open a notebook that hasn’t been opened before and as such has not been listed in the notebook navigation.īut instead of holding the note data in RAM memory to let you modify it, something else is happening right after the loading / downloading: OneNote immediately converts this data into a different and very special binary format. This is what happens instead:Īt first OneNote actually does load the note data from the disk or from the cloud (I won’t discuss the exact file format in this article as that’s not relevant here). Most users assume, that OneNote acts like every other windows program: load a data file (a document or notebook in this case) from a storage device (hard drive, cloud storage…) to the computers or mobile device’s RAM, where you edit its content and then save it back to the storage location, overwriting the previous version. If the following appears too detailed for you, simply jump down to the “Summary” section at the end of the article. OneNote’s file handling is very different from Word, Excel or other Windows programs, which explains some peculiarities. In fact, there is a sort of local copy, but it’s very different from a duplicate of the notebook files on OneDrive or OneDrive for Business. This gets often confused with locally stored notebooks being held on every OneNote client and platform. Learn some basics about the cache and editing notes offline.Īs you probably already know, OneNote lets you read and edit notes without an active internet connection, as long as the notebook has been opened before, when you had a connection. Why is it possible to edit OneNote notebooks in the cloud without an active Internet connection? Does this mean that there are local notebooks in all versions of OneNote? Yes and No.
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