onenote

📚 Linux Electron Onenote - A Linux compatible version of OneNote

Project maintained by patrikx3 Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

📚 P3X OneNote Linux v2026.4.114

🌌 Bugs are evident™ - MATRIX️
🚧 This project is under active development!
📢 We welcome your feedback and contributions.

NodeJS LTS is supported

🛠️ Built on NodeJs version

v24.14.1

📝 Description

A Linux compatible version of OneNote.

Screenshot

Features

P3X OneNote Linux is an independent browser window for the online OneNote, so you can use it without cluttering your browser.

Core highlights:

Runs in its own process, independent from any browser
System tray support — close the window and keep it running in the background
Cached data for faster startup compared to opening a new browser tab each time
Supports both corporate and personal Microsoft accounts
Auto-updates when a new version is available
Access other Microsoft online applications as well (dedicated purpose is OneNote)

Detailed Features

User interface:

Press ALT to access the menu
Desktop menu system integration
Window zoom functionality
Dark mode (non-official workaround — may have minor inconsistencies since it is not directly supported by Microsoft)
Launch minimized with the --minimized argument

Navigation and clipboard:

Bottom bar displays the current URL — click it to copy to clipboard
Edit menu includes “Copy this location to the clipboard” option
Remembers the last opened notebook (to the extent permitted by Online OneNote)

Settings (Menu > Settings):

Close to the tray — when checked, minimizes to tray instead of exiting; when unchecked, closes completely on quit
Proxy settings — configurable through the settings menu

Other:

Restart button to clear cache (useful for resolving errors and re-logging in)
Corporate home menu item — note: without a corporate login, debugging this feature is not possible. If issues arise, providing login details may help with troubleshooting.
Language: The language selector in P3X OneNote only controls the Electron app UI (menus, dialogs, buttons). To change the OneNote web content language, you must update your language in your Microsoft account profile. Translations are community-driven:
- Translation resources on GitHub
- Available languages: Afrikaans, العربية (Arabic), বাংলা (Bengali), Català (Catalan), Čeština (Czech), Dansk (Danish), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), English, Español (Spanish), Suomi (Finnish), Français (French), עברית (Hebrew), Magyar (Hungarian), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Norsk (Norwegian), Nederlands (Dutch), Polski (Polish), Português (Portuguese), Română (Romanian), Русский (Russian), Српски (Serbian), Svenska (Swedish), Türkçe (Turkish), Українська (Ukrainian), Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese), 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
Multiple instances are supported with limitations:
- Configure using a single instance first, exit, then launch multiple instances to avoid synchronization issues
- Running multiple instances is possible but not recommended

Installation

All releases are available on the GitHub Releases page.

Snap

Flatpak

Download from the releases page and install:

wget https://github.com/patrikx3/onenote/releases/download/v${VERSION}/P3X-OneNote-${VERSION}-x86_64.flatpak
flatpak install ./P3X-OneNote-${VERSION}-x86_64.flatpak
flatpak run com.patrikx3.onenote

The menu entry is integrated automatically.

AppImage, deb, rpm

AppImage, deb, and rpm packages auto-update themselves.

Setting up AppImage:

mkdir -p $HOME/opt
mv ~/Downloads/p3x-onenote-a.b.c-x86_64.AppImage $HOME/opt/
chmod +x $HOME/opt/p3x-onenote-a.b.c-x86_64.AppImage
# Then you can run it
$HOME/opt/p3x-onenote-a.b.c-x86_64.AppImage &

The app can also be found on ElectronJs Apps — search for P3X.

Windows

Windows builds are available. See Issue #168 for background.

macOS

Builds are available for both Intel and Apple Silicon architectures.

Removing quarantine on downloaded files:

If you download the zip file for the arm64 version, run the following command on the unzipped app to remove the macOS quarantine attribute:

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine P3X-OneNote.app

This allows the application to run without security interruptions from macOS.

NPM (for Node.js users)

Install via NPM

Change Log

Read the change log

Development

Use kebab-case for all file and folder names (not camelCase)
Apply the .editorconfig settings in your IDE
To generate rpm on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install rpm
To build with NPM, move electron from devDependencies to dependencies (the default setup is designed for AppImage distribution, not NPM)