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Try the OneNote from the Windows App Store. Far more simple then the full office version. I prefer to use the App Store Version.

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> Try the OneNote from the Windows App Store

Which, like the OneNote version in Office on OS X, can only sync to a Microsoft account through OneDrive and can not even create local notebooks.

That may be a show stopper.

ON can sync off of a regular old file share. I've been using it for years. A copy on our server and one on each of my computers (desktop, laptop, Mac) and they all happily sync up. Granted, the iPhone app works best with OneDrive. I'm not a fan of OneDrive and use DropBox instead for a smaller ON notebook that I share with my wife for things like handy pictures of our insurance cards, grocery lists, travel information, etc. Works great for us at work (documentation and pictures) and at home.

Microsoft documents that on OS X OneNote can not. OneNote (Metro) on Windows 10 also can not.

Now on OS X it will go into offline mode and save to an ever growing local temporary file, but you can't choose to create a local notebook.

I had to use the full version of 2016 that I could get with Office 365 on my Surface to save to a local directory.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Frequently-Asked-Qu...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wi...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/new-free-onenote-for-os...

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