Using Evernote as a Todo super application

Something I’ve learned this week, is how to utilise Evernote (what is Evernote ?)as a ToDo list management tool.

It’s quite simple … 

In you note, just hit Ctrl+Shift+C, and voila, a checkbox appears…. which is clickable to change the state of the checkbox.

Where it gets exciting is where you call up all the notes where a checkbox is in (obviously you can build quite complicating queries), and here is a simple example:

Search Queries:

  • todo:false
    • Returns a list of checkboxes where the checkbox is not ticked
  • todo:true
    • Returns a list of checkboxes where the checkbox is ticked
  • todo:*
    • Return all checkboxes of both states

Now you can really get nifty and use Saved Searches to get ToDo lists globally or juse for certain notebooks or sections. A definite win.

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