Evernote vs Microsoft 365

Before explaining does Evernote sync with Microsoft, let’s first tell the differences between Evernote and Microsoft 365.

1. Core Purpose

  • Evernote: Advanced note-taking, information organization, and task management.
  • Microsoft 365: Comprehensive productivity suite for document creation, collaboration, and email.

2. Key Features

► Evernote

  • Advanced note-taking: templates, tags, and notebook organization.
  • Web clipping: save articles, images, and web pages directly into notes.
  • Powerful search: OCR for images, handwriting recognition, and deep search capabilities.
  • Task management: integrated tasks with reminders.

► Microsoft 365

  • Document creation: Word, Excel, PowerPoint for professional work.
  • Collaboration tools: real-time editing and sharing across Word, Teams, and Excel.
  • Email integration: Outlook for email management and scheduling.
  • OneNote: basic note-taking capabilities integrated within the suite.
  • Task management: Microsoft To-Do and Planner for tasks and project organization.
  • Cloud storage: 1TB of OneDrive storage for premium users.

3. Platforms

Both Evernote and Microsoft 365 are available on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Web.

Offline Access: Evernote (Premium) and Microsoft 365 apps provide offline functionality.

4. Pricing

Evernote

Free: Limited features, 1-device connection, and 250 MB uploads/month.

Premium: Starts at $10.83/month for individuals.

Business: Starts at $20.83/user/month.

Microsoft 365

Free: Basic web versions of Word, Excel, OneDrive, Outlook, etc.

Personal: $6.99/month for 1 user.

Family: $9.99/month for up to 6 users.

Business: Starts at $6/user/month.

5. Ideal Use Cases

► Evernote

  • Best for individuals or teams focused on:
  • Heavy note-taking and research.
  • Saving and organizing web content.
  • Personal productivity with advanced tagging and search.

► Microsoft 365

  • Best for professionals, teams, and families needing:
  • Full document creation and editing capabilities.
  • Collaboration tools (Teams, Word, Excel).
  • Email management with Outlook.
  • Large cloud storage (OneDrive).

Does Evernote Sync with Microsoft?

Generally, Evernote can sync with Microsoft in Outlook. You can use Evernote for Outlook, an add-on, to save emails to Evernote and edit them with Evernote features on your Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android phone, Mac, or the web. Besides, it can be also used to add notes from Evernote to an Outlook email to easily share your notes with others.

To save Outlook emails to Evernote on the web using Evernote for Outlook, you can:

Step 1. Go to the Microsoft AppSource and click "Get it now" to install the Evernote add-on.

Get the Evernote for Microsoft OneDrive Add-on
Get the Evernote for Microsoft OneDrive Add-on

Step 2. After adding Evernote to your Outlook, open the email you want to save to Evernote.

Step 3. Tap the Apps icon and choose Evernote.

Step 4. Log in to your Evernote account in the sidebar and choose a notebook to save this email. Then, you can go to Evernote to check whether this email is sent to your notebook.

Evernote Sync with Outlook
Evernote Sync with Outlook

It is the way to sync Evernote with Microsoft in email saving and attaching. However, if you want to sync Evernote notes with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint, this add-on cannot meet your needs. Luckily, we have MultCloud which can automatically sync all notes from Evernote to the cloud without downloading and uploading, and you can learn more details in the following part.

How to Sync Evernote with Microsoft via MultCloud

How does Evernote sync with Microsoft OneDrive? MultCloud comes to help. It is a reliable cloud file transfer service, trusted by over 3 million users around the world. MultCloud supports 30+ cloud storage services, including Evernote, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online. For each cloud storage service, you are allowed to add unlimited accounts for free.

If you want to backup Evernote notes to OneDrive in the easiest way, MultCloud Cloud Sync is your best choice. It can transfer all your notes to OneDrive in one session with one click. Moreover, if you use the Real Time Sync mode, not only the old notes can be moved to OneDrive but also the new-coming ones can be saved to OneDrive as soon as they are created.

Step 1. Sign up for a MultCloud account on its website by clicking "Get started for free".

Step 2. Click "Add Cloud" and the Evernote icon to add Evernote to MultCloud. Also, add OneDrive to it with the same step.

Add OneDrive and Evernote to MultCloud
Add OneDrive and Evernote to MultCloud

Step 3. Choose the "Cloud Sync" function in the left sidebar and choose Evernote as the sync source while OneDrive as the destination.

How Does Evernote Sync with Microsoft OneDrive on MultCloud
How Does Evernote Sync with Microsoft OneDrive on MultCloud

Step 4. Open "Options" to check the sync settings and tap "Sync Now" to make Evernote sync with OneDrive.

Cloud Sync Options
Cloud Sync Options

When you open "Options", you can find various sync modes that can be added to your task:

  • Mirror Sync: The sync process guarantees the files in the source and destination are always the same without any extra files.
  • Move Sync: When the sync process is finished, all the selected notes in Evernote will be deleted.
  • Cumulative Sync: Even if you delete some notes in Evernote, they will not be deleted in the OneDrive folder after syncing.
  • Update Sync: Before syncing notes to the OneDrive folder, this folder will be cleared up at first to save the new syncing ones.
  • Incremental Sync: After the first syncing, only added or modified notes will be synced to OneDrive.
  • Full Backup Sync: Every time when you start the sync process, there will be a new directory in OneDrive to save all the notes transferred from Evernote.

Bonus Tip: How to Save Outlook Emails to Another Cloud as PDFs

Except for syncing Outlook emails to Evernote, if you want to backup your emails to other clouds like Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, MEGA, Icedrive, or NAS, you can make use of MultCloud Email Migration. It can auto-migrate up to 200 emails from Outlook to a cloud drive as PDF files.

If you are interested in this function, you can refer to the steps for migrating Outlook to Google Drive.

Step 1. Create a MultCloud account and add Google Drive to MultCloud.

Step 2. Click "Add Email" and the Outlook logo to add it to MultCloud.

Add Outlook to MultCloud
Add Outlook to MultCloud

Step 3. Choose "Email Migration" and select Outlook in the FROM box while Google Drive in the TO box.

Migrate Outlook Emails to Google Drive
Migrate Outlook Emails to Google Drive

Step 4. Tap "Migrate Now" to directly convert Outlook emails into PDF files and save them to Google Drive.

Conclusion

Does Evernote sync with Microsoft? Actually, there is no direct way to connect these 2 services but you can take advantage of some tools to make some integrations. If you want to sync Evernote with Outlook, you can use the Evernote for Outlook add-on to save emails to Evernote and attach notes to emails. Besides, if you want to sync notes to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online, you can use MultCloud Cloud Sync to real-time sync notes from Evernote to the cloud in an automatic process.

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