Connect Wave to OneNote

Save Wave sessions into your Microsoft OneNote notebooks, and pick exactly which notebook and section they land in.

Connect a Microsoft account and Wave can save any session as a OneNote page — summary, action items, and an optional transcript — in whichever notebook and section you choose.

Connect your Microsoft account

Go to Settings → Sharing & Export → Microsoft OneNote Share. You'll see Connect to OneNote — "Connect your Microsoft account to automatically save your Wave sessions to OneNote". Tap Connect with Microsoft and sign in. The screen then reads Connected to OneNote.

Set your default export location

This is the part worth doing. Once a default is set, every export — manual and automatic, from any device — goes straight there.

On the OneNote settings page, under Choose Export Location ("Select where to save your Wave sessions"), tap Load Notebooks. Pick a notebook from NOTEBOOKS, then a section from the list that appears. Wave confirms with "Default export location set to: notebook > section" and shows it at the top of the page under Default Export Location.

Tap Clear Location there to remove it.

Mobile and web share the same default, so setting it in one place sets it everywhere.

If you haven't set one

Wave falls back to your first notebook and a section inside it called Wave Summaries, creating that section if it doesn't exist. Only if your Microsoft account has no notebooks at all does Wave create a notebook called Wave Exports to hold it.

Some of Wave's own copy describes OneNote exports as landing in "Wave Exports → Wave Summaries". That's the empty-account case. If you already have notebooks, your first notebook is used — so set a default export location if you care where pages go.

Send a session

By hand. From a session's Share and Export sheet, tap Export to OneNote. On the web it's OneNote under Integrations in the Share & Export dialog; on desktop it's the OneNote tile under Export destinations.

Automatically. Turn on Auto-share to OneNote, either on the OneNote settings page or on the Auto-share screen. Auto-shared pages respect your default export location exactly like manual ones do.

Disconnect and reconnect

Tap Disconnect from OneNote on the settings page (Disconnect on web and desktop). On mobile and the web app this also switches OneNote auto-share off.

Wave refreshes expired Microsoft tokens on its own. If a refresh fails for good, it clears the connection and shows OneNote Connection Expired — "Your OneNote connection has expired. Please reconnect to continue." Tap Reconnect and sign in again.

If auto-share was on when that happened, Wave also sends a Reconnect OneNote push (at most once every three days) and leaves the auto-share toggle on, so exports resume by themselves the moment you reconnect.

Common failures

OneNote License Required — "Your Microsoft account doesn't have the required OneNote license." Personal Microsoft accounts and most Microsoft 365 plans include OneNote; some work or school accounts don't. Ask your administrator, or connect a personal account instead.
Access Blocked — "Access blocked by your organization's security policies. Check with your IT administrator." Your workplace blocks third-party apps from reaching OneNote.
"No notebooks found. Connect OneNote in Settings." on the web — the connection isn't live. Reconnect from Settings → Integrations.
Pages going to the wrong notebook — you have no default export location set, so Wave is using your first notebook. Set one.