In a Friday announcement, Microsoft announced the launch of the beta version of its OneNote Importer tool. The new migration tool launched by Microsoft for its OneNote note-taking platform basically enables Evernote users to migrate their notebooks to OneNote.

According to the announcement made by Microsoft, Evernote users can switch to the OneNote service simply by installing the new OneNote Importer tool, and selecting the Evernote notebooks they want to migrate to OneNote.

The OneNote Importer tool has the capability to import most of the notes from the Evernote platform. However, the tool lacks the capability to migrate large media attachments and reminders in notes from Evernote to OneNote platform.

Presently, the OneNote Importer tool announced by Microsoft is available is only available for Windows. But, users who transfer their Evernote notes to OneNote will be able to access the notes from any OneNote client --- the Web, Windows Mobile, iOS, Android, or Mac OS.

Meanwhile, with the design of the physical notebook-like OneNote service being vastly different from that of the Evernote service in which notebooks are basically just buckets of files, Darren Austin -- OneNote's director of product management -- said notebook-tab-page design of OneNote can be easily grasped and quickly adopted by new users.