When you start the Windows Journal to Microsoft OneNote Converter (BETA), you're presented with the following user interface:
Directly under the title bar and standard window management controls is the Menu with a single item. Clicking the question mark ("
?") will open a shortcut menu with About and Help options. The Help menu item displays this KB article in your default browser (KB3194053). The About menu item displays an About dialog box with the current tool version.
Under the Menu, the File List shows the files that will be converted. There are two ways to add files to this list:
- Click the Add Files button to add small numbers of files from a single folder.
- Click the Add Folder button to add the contents of a whole folder, including all subfolders.
As soon as files are added to the File List, you can press the CTRL key while clicking to select multiple individual files, and the SHIFT key while clicking to select a block of files. When files are selected, you can click
Remove Files to remove them from the list.
As soon as the list of files is complete, click
Convert All to begin the conversion process. The Windows Journal to Microsoft OneNote Converter (BETA) will first ask for a confirmation that you trust the content of the files that you want to convert. Click
Yes to continue converting files, or click
No to return to the application without converting.
Note The trusted notification message box resembles one that's presented in the Windows Journal application (
KB3162655). We strongly recommend that you don't convert files from unknown or untrusted sources.
You will be asked to specify an output OneNote section file for the converted Journal data. All Journal files that are listed will be converted into this single OneNote section. As Journal files are successfully converted, they are removed from the File List.
When conversion is complete, the following conversion summary dialog box is shown:
Conversion Output
The output of the Windows Journal to Microsoft OneNote Converter (BETA) is a single OneNote section file (.ONE) that has the following structure:
- The Section title is the name of the provided OneNote section file (.ONE).
- A single master page is created for each Journal file (.JNT or .JTP) being converted.
- The master page title is the name of the Journal file being converted.
- The master page contains the full path and last modified date of the Journal file being converted.
- Each page within the Journal file is converted into a subpage under the appropriate master page.
The following is a sample of the output of the Windows Journal to Microsoft OneNote Converter (BETA).
Note We strongly recommend that you copy the new section to a cloud-connected OneNote notebook. For more information about organizing notes, including moving sections between notebooks, see
Organize your notes.
