Gem Menu is a toolkit (add-on) for Mac OneNote.  7 menus, 70+ features collected now.
Gem Menu is running in Status Menus Area of macOS Menu Bar.



Some features of Gem Menu only work for the notebooks of the Microsoft Personal Account,
which is not valid for OneNote notebooks of the Work or School Account.

P Feature Works for Microsoft Personal Account
S Feature Works for Microsoft School Account
W Feature Works for Microsoft Work Account
USG Feature Works for Microsoft US Government Account
G Feature Works for Microsoft  Germany Account
C Feature Works for Microsoft  Chinese Account
 

Gem Menu

New Page
Create a new page in current page, and set its title as Customize Date format.

Notebook (Confirm Deleted Notebooks) [ P S W ]

View all notebooks in OneDrive.com, include the deleted notebooks
Used to confirm the deleted notebooks and make sure you know which one is the deleted notebook.

Open Local Link
Select a link in OneNote, and use this feature to open the link by default application. This feature can help to open the local link.
If you create a link of local file in OneNote, OneNote cannot open this type links. Gem provide this feature to help you open this type links.

Open Cloud File Attachment
Using Mac local App to open and edit the OneNote Cloud Attachment directly from the OneNote for Mac.
Prerequisites: Use Mac OneDrive.app to sync the "OneNote Uploads" folder under your Microsoft account before using this feature.
How to create Cloud Attachment in OneNote?

Open Picture
Select a picture, then use this feature to open the picture by other app.
If the picture you put in Mac OneNote shrinks and you can't see clearly, you can use the Preview App to open the picture to view the original picture clearly.
Support printout.


Open Notebook by Link
Use the links of the OneNote notebook to open the notebook.
Usage:
1. In OneNote, right-click the notebook and click the "Copy Link to Notebook" menu item in the right-click menu. (This allows you to get links to the notebook)
2. In Gem Menu, open this feature. Paste the notebook links to the input box. Press OK to open the notebook.
Usage Scenarios:
In OneNote, using the feature of share notebook, after sharing a notebook to someone else, send these links of the notebook to these people, who can open the shared notebook through this feature.


Save As - Save as HTML File
Select the page content in OneNote, and use this feature to save as HTML file to local disk.
Don’t support printout.


Cache Folder
Open cache folder of Mac OneNote

Options - Options Window of Gem Menu
The settings of features of Gem Menu.

Auto Backup and Recovery
Backup your Mac OneNote data automatics. It help you recovery your important pages when you lost the pages.

Lost Pages Alert [ P S W ]
Gem Menu is detecting the number of pages in the OneDrive.com, it will be treated as a large batch of lost notes when OneNote delete a certain amount of pages over a period of time.

Save as Word Document
Save selection as Word document.

Export Notebook [ P ] (Abandon)

Export current notebook to a .zip file. (Extract zip file, include: .onetoc2, .one files and subdirectories.)

Import Notebook [ P ] (Abandon)

Select the folder that contains the OneNote notebook from your local drive to import your notebook.

Export Tags to CSV File [ P S W ]

Export tags from the current page to a. csv file that you can use Excel to open.
 
Export Tags to XML File [ P S W ]

Export tags in current page to a .xml file. You can use this data in other app.

Restore .one Section File

Restore .one file to Backup of Mac OneNote.
Choose a .one file, after Gem Menu restore this .one file to Mac OneNote Backup, then Go to Mac OneNote Backup, choose the section in “Gem Restore Sections” to open.
If you can want to edit the section, right click on the section, click “Copy Section to” menu item to copy the section the exists OneNote Notebook, then you can edit the pages of the section.

Restore .onepkg File Backup

Restore .onepkg file to Backup of Mac OneNote.
Choose a .onepkg file, after Gem Menu restore this .onepkg file to Mac OneNote Backup, then Go to Mac OneNote Backup, choose a section in .onepkg to open.
If you want to edit the section, right click on the section, click “Copy Section to” menu item to copy the section the exists OneNote Notebook, then you can edit the pages of the section.
 

Extract .onepkg File

Extract OneNote .onepkg file to

• Open Notebook.onetoc2
• .one files

Package Notebooks to .gempkg Files

Choose and package the OneNote notebooks into .gempkg files. Save them on your local hard drive.
The main thing is to pack the notebook structure and .one files.
 

Restore .gempkg File Backup

Restore the .gempkg file of “Package Notebooks to .gempkg Files” feature.
Choose a .gempkg file, after Gem Menu restore this .gempkg file to Mac OneNote Backup, then Go to Mac OneNote Backup, choose a section in .gempkg to open.
If you want to edit the section, right click on the section, click “Copy Section to” menu item to copy the section the exists OneNote Notebook, then you can edit the pages of the section.

Export Log
Export logs to debug.
In "Options" window, "General" tab -> check "Show "Export Log" menu item.
The "Export Log" menu item will be shown on "Gem" menu -> "Export Import" submenu.

Run OneNote

Run OneNote app from Gem Menu.

 

Edit Menu

Change Case
Lower Case
Change selected text to lower case.
Example TexT -> example text
Upper Case
Change selected text to upper case.
 Example TexT -> EXAMPLE TEXT
Capitalize Each Word
Capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase
Example TexT -> Example Text
Toggle Case
Shift between two case views.
Example TexT -> eXAMPlE tEXT

Set to Page Title (Ctrl + Shilft + Option (Alt) + L)

Replace page title with selected text in current OneNote page.

Phonetics
Insert ruby text after a selected word to clarify its pronunciation. Support word of Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese.

Crop Image
Crop selected image in current OneNote page.
Don’t support printout.

Image OCR Text

Handle the OCR Text of selected image in current page. There are some extra spaces between words after OneNote OCR text from an image. This OCR Text window provide clean these extra spaces feature.
You also can copy text from picture in OneNote, and paste here to clean extra spaces.
“Recovery Paragraph” button: Revert scattered OCR words into paragraphs.

Copy Plain Text (Ctrl + Shilft + Option (Alt) + C)

Copy selected text in current OneNote page as plain text to clipboard. It is ready for paste the plain text to other app.


Word Count
Count selected contents. Count include: Paragraphs, Characters(no spaces), Characters, Words, Non-Asian words, Asian words, Images.

Pages Number [ P S ]

Displays the total number of OneNote pages in a Microsoft account.
You can view the historical changes of the page within a few months.

Find and Replace [ P S W ]

Find and replace in a OneNote page.
Find one by one, Replace one by one, Replace all.

 

Navigation Pane [ P S W ]

List the Heading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the current OneNote page.
Click on each item of list to quickly jump to the corresponding heading. Easy and fast navigation.

 

Table Menu

Table Style - Table Style Window
Apply table style to selected OneNote table.

Image Table
Select images from Mac Finder, create a table into OneNote to list these images with their names.
Insert and range images as horizontal.

Table Information
Display row count, column count of selected table.

Table to Text

Convert selected table to text with customize separator.
 

Text to Table

Convert selected paragraphs to a table by specified separator.
 

Save Table as CSV File

Export selected table to a .csv file.

Draw

Ruler
Provides horizontal and vertical rulers.
Support right-click menu items for ruler:

1. New Ruler: create multiple rulers.
2. Vertical Ruler: convert horizontal ruler to vertical ruler.
3. Hide All: hide all rulers.
4. Show All: show all hided rulers.
5. Close: close current ruler.
6. Close All: close all rulers.
7. Horizontal Ruler: convert current ruler to horizontal from vertical.
8. Scale from Top to Bottom: convert scale from top:0 to bottom:1000
9. Scale from Bottom to Top: convert scale from bottom:0 to top:1000

Open OneMind Addin
When installed OneMind Addin, a “OneMind” menu item appear in “Draw” menu. This help quickly open the OneMind Addin.
 

Favorites Menu

Favorite Current Page
Favorite current OneNote page, and open the OneNote page quickly.

Manage Favorite Pages
Manage the favorite pages, delete favorite pages.

Favorite Current Section
Favorite current OneNote section, and jump to the OneNote section quickly.
 
Manage Favorite Sections
Manage the favorite sections, delete favorite sections.

Documents and Skill

Release and history