UPDATED (5/9/19) - Outlook for Mac now supports sending items to OneNote in Insider Fast

[Faisal Jeelani]

UPDATE 5/9/2019
Outlook for Mac has been working closely with the OneNote for Mac team to move to the new OneNote add-in that is based on the Office add-ins framework. Over this quarter, this add-in will roll out to customers in Production! This feature will allow you to send your mails and meetings to OneNote. 

With this new add-in rolling out, the existing functionality in Insider Fast, that this article talks about, will be replaced. The new add-in will appear in the ribbon, grouped with the rest of the add-ins that you use today.

Thanks!

The Outlook for Mac team

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With the release of 16.7 (171029), we are finally addressing one of the top requested features in our UserVoice site - Mac users are getting the ability to send their emails and meetings to OneNote! The Send to OneNote button allows you to select any notebook/section across all your accounts, allowing you to archive and access your Outlook content where and when you want it.

We are really excited to release this feature to our loyal fans in Insider Fast, and plan on rolling it out to everyone soon.

Importantly, this feature will be available to Office 365 subscribers only.

How do I use this feature?

1. When viewing an email or meeting, click on the OneNote icon in the ribbon to get started -
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Sign in to OneNote using your work or Microsoft account or select the account you would like to use -
   
3. Select the notebook and section you want to send your Outlook item to -
   
   (NOTE: you can also change the account that you would like to send to in this dialog)
4. And voila! Your item has now been sent to OneNote. You can use the link in this dialog to open it up in OneNote.
   

Known Issues

• The sent date may not respect your current time zone
• Plain text emails may have missing / malformed characters
• Sending an email or meeting to a password protected section is not currently supported
• ‘To’ and ‘From’ email addresses in the page header may include a leading ‘<’ character

Problems or Suggestions?

We value your feedback, if you have any issues or bugs to report, please do so by contacting our in-app support (Help > Contact Support)

If you would like to see enhancements and additions to this feature, (or Mac Outlook as a whole), please vote for the idea on our UserVoice site (Help > Suggest a Feature)

[Neil Palludan]

While I really wanted this feature and was delighted to get it I obviously do not use it everyday as I just noticed that I'm currently using Insider Slow 16.27 (19070800) and the Send to OneNote button has gone missing again...

[Curtis Gilbert]

Who is the Product Manager for OneNote for Mac.  After years of observing a yo yo of working and then not working?  Maybe its time to replace the Product Manager.   How hard can it be to listen to your User community and fix this OneNote issue that seems to lose functionality at a greater rate then gain.  OneNote from Calendar doesn't work.  OneNote Drag and Drop feature doesn't work anymore.  When we we have one fix that really fixes the same reported issues for not months but years!?

[MD_Vienna]

Hi,

I am using 16.27 and have 4 different email accounts running with it. 1 IMAP, 2 exchange (not hosted/provided by MS), 1 Exchange (provided by MS ... onmicrosoft).

OneNote-Integration in Windows used to be a client topic, so no matter which account one used, the email or appointment could be forwarded to OneNote. Now after years of missing functionality on the Mac it has now been established recently (for a broader public aka general availability) but it seems that only the onmicrosoft-account can use the "Send to OneNote" feature.

Hopefully it is simply a configuration topic that I missed and it is not a conceptual design topic - the later would be a pain in the neck - I would go as far as to call it useless - if one can't integrate all messages/appointments handled with outlook to OneNote, OneNote can't be the single source of note taking and another tool might be needed.

Please advise on how to get it up and running as I am still hoping, it is not a design flaw.

br

Markus

[PP_WW]

... I'm on v16.28 insider fast office 365, and strangely enough it depends on the account type

• works in company business exchange environment
• works with personal gmail account
• does NOT work with outlook.com account ?!?
• does not work personal IMAP account

Any idea on the rationale behind? What type of accounts are expected to work?

Many thanks,

Peter.

[PASS-MR]

I have the option to "Send to OneNote" in my outlook email (MAC version) but when the box opens, I can only see the first layer of folders in one note. I cannot see the many subfolders I have underneath the main folder to move the email into the correct folder. Is there a setting I need to change to allow me to open up the complete listing of one note folders so I can move emails to the correct folder? 

[Olea20]

I am in version 16.33 (insider slow). I have an (institutional) subscription to office 365 and yet I cannot see the send to OneNote button.

I truly miss this button (before I worked with a Win10 machine) and I wonder if anyone at MS could indicate when this functionality will be operational again... Thanks!

[ChoquetteCo]

We are using Outlook for Mac version 16.34 (20011502) and OneNote for Mac version 16.34 (20011502) and we first make sure that within the OneNote for Mac is logged into work account and has the desired OneNote notebook open (on the same work account). When we try to send an email to this desired OneNote notebook it does not first show up in the side window but it does seem that after a period of time (hours) it does eventually appear in the list of available OneNote Notebooks. Our only solutions so far is to either: 1. Flag or move the Email to a Outlook folder (we named _1 OneNote to be Saved) and wait for the notebook to appear in the SendToOneNote side window or; 2. Print the email to a PDF (saving it to our Mac) and then dragging the PDF to a new OneNote page (which of course does not include any email attachments). Please help! And would love to see a search field in the Send to OneNote side window as in our case we have a large number of OneNote Notebooks as we utilize the Office Planner

[LPRocker83]

@PASS-MR I too am having this issue both in Outlook for Mac and iOS. It appears you can't send the email from Outlook to a "page" within the "section"--you can only save it to a section as a brand new page. Very frustrating. Works as you describe, though, in Windows. 

[Ian_Sterling]

Is the OneNote add-in available via the version of Outlook available via the Mac App Store? Or does it have to be the manually installed version and still only available via the Insider Track option? Is there an update on this? Running version 16.45 and still unable to see the OneNote plug-in. Thank you. 

[Greg816]

@LPRocker83and @PASS-MR, were you able to resolve this issue? I too am unable to navigate to pages/sections I've created in OneNote when sending items from Outlook. 

[0x321c]

Hi there,

Any update about the availability of this add-in/plug-in on the current M365 version in 2021?

Thanks.