Open OneDrive homepage and in the Documents or Notebooks folder, you shall find OneNote notebooks, sections, and notes. Under the History tab, you will notice the Notebook Recycle Bin button.Īll deleted pages and notes will appear there. You will find the deleted notes under View tab upon clicking the Deleted Notes button. Steps are a little different for both versions of OneNote. Post that, the app will delete it completely. Check Recycle Bin for Deleted NotesĪny note that you delete is moved to the OneNote Recycle, where it will stay for 60 days. Step 2: Select a Notebook and click on Open or you can drill further to find sections inside a notebook. That will open a local folder on your computer where you will notice a separate folder for each notebook you created. Step 1: Open File > Info and click on Open Backups. However, OneNote still allows you to store notes both locally and in the cloud, and when you delete them, there is a way to recover the same. There is no way to store notes locally in OneNote for Windows as of yet. You can also find it under File > Sync Status. You have more control here and can sync individual notebooks. The checkmark indicates that the sync is complete.įor OneNote (2016), click the sync icon that is integrated inside the notebook button to reveal a pop-up. You can sync manually by clicking on the cloud icon. OneNote initiates the sync every time you open the app. Microsoft relies on OneDrive to save and sync OneNote notebooks, sections, and notes, across devices. This is for OneNote for Windows version, but the UI is slightly different for OneNote (previously known as OneNote 2016). It may take a few moments to download and sync data, but you don’t lose any data if you can view the notebook. Step 3: Select the notebook that you want to open and then click on Open button at the bottom. Step 2: Click on More Notebooks to find the ones that are closed. Step 1: Click on the downward-facing arrow in the left window pane to reveal a list of currently open notebooks. Closed notebooks disappear from view, not existence, and maybe that’s why you cannot view them. You can close a notebook in OneNote to declutter the interface.

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