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Applies to: Consumer notebooks on OneDrive | Enterprise notebooks on Office 365

OneNote is a popular note-taking tool that's available online and on many mobile and tablet platforms. By integrating your apps with OneNote, it's easier than ever to create empowering apps on your favorite platforms and reach millions of users worldwide.

Take advantage of OneNote's notebook, section, and page hierarchy and easy-to-use API to help your users plan and organize ideas and information.

Note

When you use the OneNote API, you agree to the Microsoft API terms of use.

Platform overview

The OneNote service runs on the Microsoft cloud and provides a RESTful interface for programmatic access to OneNote content. The OneNote API is lightweight and simple—it's built on JSON, HTML, and OData, so you can use it with any language or platform that supports HTTP requests.

Here's a simple view of the OneNote API development stack.

First, your user must be authenticated and grant access to your app. Then you get an access token that you use to interact with OneNote content. In addition to CRUD support for OneNote resources, the API also provides capabilities such as optical character recognition (OCR), full-text search, and business card extractions.

Using the OneNote API

To use the OneNote API, you send HTTP requests to specific endpoints off OneNote's service root URL:

https://www.onenote.com/api/{version}/{location}/notes/...

You can use the OneNote API to do things like create, view, and manage pages in personal, site, and group notebooks. To give you an idea of how the API works, here's a simple POST request that creates a page in the current user's default notebook.

If successful, the request returns the following response—in this case an OData representation of the new page in JSON format.

See Create pages for a closer look at POST pages requests.

Why create OneNote apps?

Integrate OneNote to create apps that people will love. You can use the OneNote API to create and manage notes, lists, pictures, files, and more in OneNote notebooks.

Collect and organize notes and ideas

Use OneNote as a canvas where users can add and arrange their content. The OneNote API makes it easy to write apps so students can take notes and do research, families share plans and ideas, shoppers share pictures—all the things that interest people most. Your app can grab the information people want, send it to OneNote, and then help them organize it.

Capture information in many formats

Capture HTML, embed images (sourced locally or at a public URL), video, audio, email messages, and other common file types. OneNote can even render webpages and PDF files as snapshots. The OneNote API supports a set of standard HTML and CSS for OneNote page layout, so you can use tables, inline images, and basic formatting to get the look you want.

Use the OneNote ecosystem to enhance your core scenarios

Tap into other powerful OneNote API features. The API runs OCR on images, supports full-text search, auto-syncs clients, processes images, and extracts business card captures and online product and recipe listings. Use OneNote as your digital memory store in the cloud for notes and lightweight media, or as a data feed for domain-specific data.

Reach millions of OneNote users on all major platforms

Use OneNote to increase your app usage. Pre-installed on new Windows devices, available for popular platforms, on the web as OneNote Online, and part of Office 365—100+ million people worldwide actively use OneNote. When you publish apps that leverage the feature-rich OneNote environment, the cross-platform market potential is simply too big to ignore.

Get started with the OneNote API

Use samples and tutorials to start coding fast, try out our interactive consoles, or dive deeper with our documentation.

OneNote samples and tutorials

These samples and tutorials show the basics of using the OneNote API on different platforms (see all our samples on GitHub).

*MSA = Microsoft account authentication, Azure AD = Azure Active Directory authentication

How-to and conceptual articles

When you're ready to dig deeper, browse our how-to and conceptual articles to learn more about what you can do with OneNote.

SDKs for OneNote development

OneNote apps can use the OneDrive API SDK to get the access tokens that are required for all requests to the OneNote API. The SDK makes authentication easier for you. You just provide your identity information and integrate a few calls, and the SDK handles everything from sign in and consent to getting, storing, and refreshing tokens. Then, you can make REST calls to the OneNote API. Our iOS tutorial shows how you can use the SDK in a OneNote app.

All versions of the SDK support Microsoft account authentication (for consumer notebooks), and some also support Azure Active Directory (for enterprise notebooks). See the OneDrive documentation for the current list of supported platforms.

Note

The OneDrive API SDK replaces the Live SDK. The Live SDK is deprecated but will continue to support existing OneNote applications that use it. For new development, use the OneDrive API SDK.

At some point, we may provide libraries that both handle authentication and support native calls to the OneNote API, but for now you can use the OneDrive API SDK.

Alternatively, enterprise apps can use the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to access Office 365 and SharePoint-hosted notebooks. You might consider using ADAL directly if there's no SDK available for your platform or if you want more control over the auth process. Our ASP.NET MVC tutorial shows how you can use ADAL in a OneNote app.

Important

To interact with OneNote content and resources, you should always use the OneNote API. Don't use the OneDrive API.

For more information, see OneNote resources.

Connect with us

Stay tuned as we expand and improve. We always want to hear your questions and comments, help you figure things out, and keep you up-to-date. Here's how you can connect with us:

• Read the OneNote Developer Blog for news and helpful tips.
• Get expert answers on Stack Overflow.
• Follow us on Twitter: @onenotedev.
• Send us your ideas and comments on UserVoice.

What's changed

The following entries highlight changes made to the OneNote API and documentation during the past year:

July 2016

• Added the Work with staff notebooks topic.
• Documented support for embedded videos.

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May 2016

• Added page preview support. Use the ../pages/{id}/preview endpoint to get text and image preview content for a page. Read the Page preview API blog post to learn more.
• Documented support for the ../users/{id}/notes/ location, which enables access to OneNote content that the specified user (in the URL) has shared with the current user. Enterprise notebooks only.
• Added permission management APIs that allow you to set access permissions on a notebook, section group, or section. Enterprise notebooks only.
• Added new class notebook operations: Insert sections from other notebooks, add a Teacher Only section group, delete class notebooks, create class notebooks in a specified language, send an email notification for a new class notebook. Enterprise notebooks only.
• Added support for the <pre> element in page HTML content. Now, content captured from sites like MSDN and StackOverflow renders with proper code formatting.

March 2016

• Released GET /pages/{id}/content?preAuthenticated=true to production. When the preAuthenticated=true query string option is used to retrieve page content, the output HTML includes public URLs to the image resources on the page. These pre-authenticated URLs are valid for one hour. See One time Authentication for Public Resource.
• Released PATCH /sections/{id} to production. This lets you rename a section by sending an application/json content type in the message body, like this: { 'name': 'New section name' }

February 2016

• Added the Subscribe for webhooks and Work with class notebooks topics. Webhooks is currently supported only for consumer notebooks on OneDrive.

January 2016

• Turned on throttling. Learn more about OneNote API throttling and best practices to avoid it.
• Added the Supported REST operations and Copy notebooks, sections, and pages topics. Copy functionality is currently available only for Office 365 notebooks.

November 2015

• Support for Office 365 notebooks moved from preview to production. Includes support for notebooks on SharePoint sites and Office 365 groups, and the Notes.Read.All and Notes.ReadWrite.All permissions that are required to access these organization-level notebooks.
• Released POST /sectiongroups/{id}/sections, POST /notebooks/{id}/sectiongroups, and POST /sectiongroups/{id}/sectiongroups to production.
• Released CopyNotebook, CopyToNotebook, CopyToSectionGroup, CopyToSection to production for Office 365 notebooks.
• Added the parentSection and parentNotebook navigation properties to pages. The default GET pages query expands parentSection and selects the section's name, id, and self properties.
• Added the level and order properties to pages. To retrieve these properties, include the pagelevel parameter in a query for the pages collection in a section or for a specific page. Example: GET ../sections/{id}/pages?pagelevel=true or GET ../pages/{id}?pagelevel=true
• The maximum number of characters in a notebook name changed from 50 to 128.
• Moved the how-to and conceptual documentation. The new documentation covers both consumer and enterprise OneNote APIs.

September 2015

• The maximum number of pages returned in a GET pages request using the top query string option changed from 500 to 100.

July 2015

• Released two OneNote REST API explorer sample apps:
  - iOS REST API Explorer
  - Android REST API Explorer
• Released DELETE pages to production.
• Updated the root service URL in the how-to topics to use the new, recommended /me/notes/ route: https://www.onenote.com/api/v1.0/me/notes/

June 2015

• Published the Use note tags topic.

See also

Having spent 15+ years in IT project management, I have an appreciation for the tools out there that make Project Management simpler and efficient. OneNote (yes, OneNote!) is such a tool. Today, I want to highlight the ways a project manager and project team members might use and adopt OneNote when managing projects within an organization.

It is important to note that OneNote by itself does not constitute a project management software. OneNote, in combination with SharePoint Site or Office 365 Group or Planner – will though. So when I talk about OneNote features below, the software is more of “assisting/facilitating” tool that complements the other tools in Office 365 eco-system.

1. Storing and sharing Agendas

OneNote can be great for storing Agendas for meetings. You can create a page for each meeting and name it accordingly.

Moreover, since OneNote, by default is part of all SharePoint sites and Office 365 Groups, you can use it to collaborate and co-author and easily ask your team members with adding items to an agenda for example.

2. Keeping Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes are another great piece of content belonging in OneNote. You can use the same OneNote page where you stored Agenda items above and record Meeting Notes, action items and other outcomes from the meetings keeping everything organized in one place. Alternatively, you can create another page for Meeting Minutes and organize it together with Agenda page above into a section.

If you are managing your projects using the Agile methodology, OneNote can become a great tool to keep track of these daily Scrum Meetings. I documented it in this post.

3. Storing Lessons Learned

Another great way to use OneNote is to capture Lessons Learned on a project. When I managed projects in the corporate world, I used to hold Lessons Learned sessions for every project that I managed. It helped me avoid mistakes in future projects.

And then you can allow users to co-author and contribute to the document – essentially building a Lessons Learned database.

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4. Organizing Risks in a Risk Register

Another cool way to use OneNote is to capture project risks. Typically, Risk Register is built in Excel, I also advocate for using a SharePoint custom list for this, but you can also use OneNote and either embed a table or Excel document right on the page.

5. Project Wiki

What really makes OneNote great – is that it can become an easy dumping ground (repository) for any content (images, audio, video, tables, hand-written notes, etc.) that otherwise would not be stored in any SharePoint document library. You can use OneNote’s sections and pages to create a nice project Wiki! OneNote is fully searchable, so you can always search and find what you are looking for.

6. Links

Related to the Wiki above, you can use OneNote to organize and store various links (bookmarks, URLs). Alternatively, SharePoint is also a great place by itself to organize links too – so if that is of interest to you – click here.

7. Business Requirements

I have seen organizations use OneNote for business requirements gathering. Co-authoring capabilities would allow your team member to collaborate and gather requirements all in one place. Speaking of which, if you are thinking of gathering business requirements on SharePoint, you might want to read this.

8. Status Reports

Oh yes, Status Reports! Who does not like them? Well, the truth of the matter is – nobody does, other than senior management. I remember when I managed projects in the corporate world, I absolutely hated putting them together. You spend hours on something that would take senior execs 1 min to read, only for them to make some stupid and unreasonable decision. Sorry, I digressed here. In any case, OneNote can become a great tool to expedite the development of those weekly Status Reports.

9. Action Items List

Action Items is another piece of content that might be perfect for OneNote. Could be great for quick To-Do Lists that do not belong in the formal task list/schedule. The checklist (To Do functionality in OneNote) is amazing!

10. Emails

Did you receive an important email you want to become part of a project record? You can copy the whole email to any OneNote notebook with a click of a button.