Does OneNote automatically sync to the cloud?

As a popular service provided by Microsoft, OneNote has many valuable features to help you create notes and record something important. All the OneNote data will be saved on local drives.

For a better user experience, you may want to sync OneNote to cloud. There are many cloud services in the market now. After you create a cloud sync task for your OneNote, you can access OneNote files on any device with a network connection.

Can OneNote automatically sync to cloud? Yes, there will be manual methods and automatic methods for OneNote sync in the following part.

How to sync OneNote to cloud: 4 common ways

How to sync OneNote to cloud? As we know, OneNote is compatible perfectly with OneDrive, a cloud drive provided by Microsoft. But in addition to OneDrive, there are some other mainstream cloud storage services in the market like Dropbox, and Google Drive. Thus, here we will introduce how to sync OneNote to different clouds. And one of the methods can help you sync OneNote to any cloud directly.

Option 1. Sync OneNote to OneDrive

First, you can choose to sync OneNote to OneDrive. Without downloading extra software on your computer, OneNote files can be synced to OneDrive in the OneNote Notebook client directly. But you need to perform such a sync task manually and singly:

1. Launch the OneNote Notebook app on your computer. On the left menu, click on Share.

2. Then click on the OneDrive - Personal option.

3. After selecting your OneDrive account, click on the Move Notebook icon to start moving OneNote to OneDrive.

Option 2. Sync OneNote to Dropbox

Among all cloud services, Dropbox is also a widely-used cloud drive. Maybe you want to sync OneNote to Dropbox for its advantages.

Then your OneNote file is located on your computer. Now, you have two choices to upload it to Dropbox.

• Sync OneNote to OneDrive on web page

First, you can upload OneNote to Dropbox on its official website. Log into your Dropbox account. Just click on Upload files or Upload folder to select your OneNote files.

• Sync OneNote to OneDrive on desktop app

If you do not want to open a new website every time you want to sync OneNote to Dropbox, you can download and set up a Dropbox desktop client on your computer. After that, you will have a Dropbox folder on your computer.

Directly drag and drop OneNote files to this folder, then your OneNote files will be synced to Dropbox automatically.

Option 3. Sync OneNote to Google Drive

Likewise, you have two ways to sync OneNote to Google Drive as well: perform it on website or on desktop.

• Sync OneNote to Google Drive on web page

In a browser, head to the Google Drive website and log into your Google account. Then click on My Drive > Upload files or Upload folder. Select your OneNote in the next window to upload.

• Sync OneNote to Google Drive on desktop app

Google Drive also offers a desktop client, named Drive for Desktop. You can download and set up it on your computer. During this process, you can choose the folder containing OneNote files to sync with Google Drive.

Option 4. Sync OneNote to any cloud

We also want to recommend you a professional cloud backup and sync service called CBackup, which can help you sync OneNote to any cloud without switching to different interfaces.

To sync OneNote to cloud, let’s what advantages CBackup has:

In CBackup, there is no limitation on sync speed and file size. The sync speed totally depends on your network connection.

Many mainstream cloud drives are supported in CBackup including OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. You can sync OneNote to them on one interface.

You can set up scheduled sync tasks with the Scheduler feature for free.

Here, let’s see how to sync OneNote to cloud quickly. Here we take OneDrive as an example. The easy guideline is applicable to other clouds as well.

1. Download and set up the CBackup desktop client on your computer. Sign up for a CBackup account and open it to log into your account.

2. Click on the Storage tab. Choose OneDrive > Authorize Now. Please follow the step-by-step guides to let CBackup access to your OneDrive account safely.

3. Click on the Sync tab on the left panel, and click Sync PC to Public Cloud here.

4. Select OneNote files on your PC as sync source. And choose a OneDrive folder as the sync destination. After that, click on Start Sync to sync OneNote to cloud quickly.

★ Notes: CBackup also offers some useful features, which can bring much convenience to you.

Get unlimited cloud storage: The combine cloud storage allows you to merge multiple, or even unlimited cloud drive accounts together. In this way, you can get unlimited cloud backup space for free.

Backup any data to cloud: Any type of data is supported to backup to cloud via CBackup.

Free cloud storage: Once you create a new CBackup account, there will be 5GB of free cloud storage space in CBackup Cloud in your account.

Tip: Sync OneNote from OneDrive to another cloud

Your OneNote will be saved to OneDrive automatically and directly. If you want to sync OneNote from OneDrive to another cloud, you can create a OneDrive cloud transfer task in CBackup using the cloud to cloud sync feature for free.

1. Go to the CBackup website. Log into your CBackup.

2. Go to the My Storage tab, then press the + Add Cloud button to add the cloud drive account you need.

3. Click on Sync Tasks > New Task.

4. Press the Add Source button to choose OneNote files from OneDrive, and press the Add Destination button to choose a folder from the target cloud drive account.

5. After the above, click on the Start Sync button to sync OneNote from OneDrive to another cloud drive account directly.

Written in the end

In this post, you can learn 4 effective ways to sync OneNote to cloud. No matter what cloud drive you use in daily life, you can find a suitable method to sync OneNote to your cloud drive. If you have more than one cloud drive account, or you want to sync files to cloud quickly, please consider using the professional cloud service CBackup. With it, you can also backup files to cloud at a high speed.