OneNote Export to Joplin Import results not usable

[CountZero]

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.4.10

What issue do you have?

So I exported my OneNote notebooks to zip files. Imported into Joplin as per your youtube video. The result is a mess. Have uploaded a screenshot, but just in case, instead of a normal view of the pages, I end up with 2 columns, one of raw html, and one the normal looking content of the page. I have been using onenote for several years, manually editing it to be usable would take forever. Please let me know if there is any way for me to import my onenote data without having to manually edit each page. I'm just hoping I made a mistake during the export or import process.

UPDATE TO MY ORIGINAL POST:

OK, so with Joplin, the View settings come out of the box with the raw HTML displayed in a column next to the actual content. Once I started poking stuff in Joplin, I found ‘View/Toggle Editor Layout’ and made the column of HTML go away, and the actual content looks just like my onenote on the web (I haven’t got onenote on my desktop right now). That’s what I get for being so laser-focused (sounds better than Obsessed, right?) on verifying that Joplin could import my onenote data, that I didn’t bother to test-drive Joplin at all first! If I had, I’d have know that what I was seeing was Joplin working exactly as advertised. Which means Joplin’s importing of my OneNote zip files worked just fine!

Despite feeling stupid for pulling a Wilson; instead of deleting this post in shame, I’ll just leave it up here, in case another new Joplin and Ex-Onenote user like me makes the same mistake I did.

TL;DR - I mistook a Joplin feature for a bug, and thought Joplin’s Import OneNote process was broken.

Screenshots

[mrjo118]

If you don’t want it as html, you have a couple of options. Either use the rich text editor to edit the notes (although that has some limitations) or if you see the orange banner at the top, there is an option to convert each note to Markdown instead, which is easier to edit in its raw format

[CountZero]

So this is what the results of importing Onenote zip files always looks like? I have thousands of pages; manually editing each one is not possible. And that’s just the plain old text items. I have probably a couple thousand more that are whole columns of stuff copied from articles and pages on the web. (sigh)

[CountZero]

See my edit to my original post, where I do the Walk Of Shame for mistaking a feature for a bug. On the other hand, I’m also very relieved that importing my OneNote zip files into Joplin seems to work fine. On a totally separate note, if you know where I can find a layout that explains what all the items under File, Edit, View, Go, Notebook, Note, Tools, and Help do - please pass it on. I’ve started poking around in the Help section here, but some of us need pictures and diagrams to find our way.

Edit: Just marking the post as solved, too, since Joplin was supposed to look like that after a successful import of a OneNote zip file.