A few weeks ago, an email landed in my inbox letting me know that Evernote was going to be increasing their prices from December 2025. I didn’t think too much of it as many of the software companies I have subscriptions with are increasing their fees. However, as I read the email further, my mouth dropped open in shock at by just how much by subscription was going to increase – by just under £75.00! I couldn’t believe the price was going up by so much. I’m sure I stared at that email with my mouth wide open in shock for several minutes before I fully registered what it was saying.
As a small business, I try to keep my own fees as low as possible so that I can help my clients to grow their business. If I were to renew my Evernote subscription this year, I would have to increase my prices by a significant amount, as other pieces of software I use have also gone up (though not by anywhere near that amount). Given the current economic climate, I didn’t want to cause my clients such a financial burden, as they wouldn’t then be able to grow their own business and achieve their goals.
The first thing I did was tell my husband and daughter about the completely insane amount of the increase – which left both of them rather shocked. I started to look for software that I could use to replace Evernote with. I didn’t use all of Evernotes features, but it was handy to have on my phone and my laptop and to be able to access it from anywhere. I used it to keep notes for clients to pass onto their accountants, to draft emails, checklists, draft a blog post – so I thought about what other software could do the same thing.
I already use Microsoft 365, meaning I already had access to OneNote, but it wasn’t a piece of software I used. The next step was to see if I could export everything from Evernote and import it into One Note – why pay for a new piece of software, when I had access to software that could continue to do what I needed it to. A quick Google and I found the answer; yes, I could export the various Notebooks on Evernote and then import them into OneNote. All I needed to do was download a free piece of software – Evernote2Onenote – which I was able to download it from https://tools.stefankueng.com/Evernote2Onenote.html.
Once that handy little tool was downloaded, I opened up Evernote and started. It was actually a very quick process and was not complicated at all. When you go into Evernote, you simply right click on the Notebook you want to export and save it as a .enex file. You then open up Evernote2Onenote, browse to where you exported your Notebook to, and follow the prompts. After it’s finished running, your Notebook will be in your OneNote program – it literally does all the work for you!
To ensure that everything was syncing properly in OneNote, I had to ensure that the imported Notebooks were appearing in the correct OneNote folder so that they were able to be synced. To move the files, I browsed to the OneNote folder on my OneDrive and then moved them to the OneNote Notebooks folder on the OneDrive. This then allowed them to be able to be synced properly.
I did go through the Evernote account and compared most of the files to the freshly imported notes on OneNote, just to ensure everything was copied over. It did also copy over files that I had inserted into a note on Evernote, which I wasn’t expecting. The only things it did not transfer, were where notes on Evernote were shared with me by someone else from their own Evernote account.
Once I was assured that everything had copied over correctly, I went into my Evernote settings, and cancelled my subscription, so now I just have a free plan, but I will not be using Evernote and just continue to use OneNote going forwards.