• Onenote To Do List Template
• To Do List In Onenote 2016

Admittedly, until recently, something I’ve struggled with is using OneNote for my Todo lists.

Until recently I still typed “notepad” into a command line to quick jot ideas down. It was easy to get things I needed to remember down in text this way. The problem is that I’d often forget about the notes and if I rebooted my laptop or closed the notepad window, I’d lose everything with no hope of data recovery, since Notepad doesn’t autosave. OneNote seemed like the perfect solution but frequently getting to a Todo list in OneNote amongst all my pages was laborious & frustrating.

THE SOLUTION: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TO ONENOTE PAGES
I learned how to create shortcuts into specific OneNote pages and that has revolutionized my life. Anywhere in Windows, I now use “CTRL-ALT-X” and it immediately takes me to my Todo list in OneNote – the same Todo list that’s synced across my tablet, my PC and my phone.

Here’s how I did it:

Onenote To Do List Template

1. Open OneNote. Select a page you want to link to.
2. Right click the page tab and select the “Copy link to page” menu item.
1. If your Notebook is synced to OneDrive, what you just copied is a bunch of text representing two links:
   One for the ONLINE OneDrive version of your OneNote page (which begins with https:)…
   the other for the LOCAL OneNote page (which begins with onenote:) Paste the link into NotePad and you’ll see something like this:
   
   https://skydrive.live.com/edit.aspx/Documents/Personal%20^5Web^6?cid=0000000c7f7e038d&id=documents?&wd=target%28DDDDDD.one%7c3B150456-0000-AAAA-CCCC-0CFDA610DEF4%2fTodo%7cA6C6B3E3-6E7F-4B51-ZZZZ-A699E861FA01%2f%29
   onenote:https://d.docs.live.net/00da410c7f7e038d/Documents/
   Personal%20(Web)/DDDDDD.one#Todo&section-id={3B150456-DA48-48FE-A2C2-0CFDA610DEF4}&page-id={A6C6B3E3-0000-0000-AAAA-A699E861FA01}&end
   
2. Copy the section that begins with “onenote:”, as underlined above. Do not copy the “&end”.
3. Switch to your desktop.
4. Create a shortcut & paste the OneNote page hyperlink into it. Name the shortcut something like “Todo list”. Click Finish.
5. Right click on the Shortcut icon you just created. Choose properties.
6. Click the “Shortcut key” textbox. Press the keyboard shortcut you’d like such as “CTRL-ALT-X”.
7. Click Ok.

That’s it. From now on, anytime you need to enter a Todo item, you can hit CTRL-ALT-X and it will take you to your OneNote Todo page.

To Do List In Onenote 2016

My work to-do list is in OneNote mostly because the linking is indispensable. The Today / Next / Completed sections work great for me, and I spend the day shifting things from Next to Today based on priority. (At the end of the month, the page is copied into an archive, and on the original page the completed tasks are cleared out. Creating checklists is a built-in capability of OneNote that you can use for all sorts of different things. Perhaps the most obvious use is a to do list, and in fact, the checkbox is actually called a To Do tag in OneNote. You can use this tag throughout a OneNote page; it doesn’t have to be used only in a. Track action items in your notes by tagging them as to-do items. Then easily manage that list by reviewing all of your tags on the Tags Summary pane. Take notes by typing text on a OneNote page. Select the text that you want to mark as a to-do item, click the Home tab, then click To Do Tag.