No local file storage for OneNote on Mac version?

...Keep this up and more folks will jump ship.  A shame, since OneNote was that good.

I started jumping ship with Win8... moved to Mac.

Then with OneNote for Mac I moved to Outline.

Now I use OpenOffice instead of Ms Office.

Couldn't be happier to be free of all Ms apps.

Next step is to cut ties with Adobe and their subscription only apps.

OneNote for Mac is basically an OS X port of the Universal OneNote App.  That's why it's feature set is more in line with the iOS, WinRT, or Android OneNote client than the Win32 OneNote Client.  That's why it doesn't allow you to save Notebooks offline.  It will never let you do that, so stop asking for it.  Microsoft does not, and never, intended for that app to be used completely offline - only in a cached mode.

They want to lock you into their ecosystem, and step one to doing that is to tie you to a Microsoft Account.

...Keep this up and more folks will jump ship.  A shame, since OneNote was that good.

I started jumping ship with Win8... moved to Mac.

Then with OneNote for Mac I moved to Outline.

Now I use OpenOffice instead of Ms Office.

Couldn't be happier to be free of all Ms apps.

Next step is to cut ties with Adobe and their subscription only apps.

Thanks for the feedback and in the free version of OneNote for Mac it only syncs to the cloud as you see.  Why don't you have your files in the cloud?  Without doing this you all cannot use your notes on other devices.  And the team is looking to add Office 365 & SharePoint sync for work users who cannot sync to OneDrive; right now it was more consumer focused.

As for local files there isn't yet a way to upload them to OneDrive yet, do you have a bunch of old files that you don't have open in OneNote that you can't upload?  

Thanks for this feedback we are listening

Bet you learned how to phrase things differently in the future!

I downloaded Mac Office 2016 via my subscription and it still wants to do everything through OneDrive.  Other folks have voiced their reasons for not being limited to a *single* cloud service better than I could, though I have the same concerns (confidential Info, HIPAA, etc.).  MS needs to fix this, especially for the paying customers.  Word and Access teams also deserve a flogging for the damage they are doing to their products as well.  Keep this up and more folks will jump ship.  A shame, since OneNote was that good.

We need local and better SharePoint support....  I wonder what it would take for Microsoft to build OneNote and the rest of their Office Suite so that is forward consistent across both OS's.

It's unfortunate that Microsoft cannot understand that there are circumstances which a person or company will not risk saving documents to the cloud, such as, research, competitive data, etc. I use Office365 for the PC at work and I've needed IT support almost everyday. It' nothing to look forward to.