However, there is something better, and if you can challenge yourself to think a little differently, and appreciate having your ToDo’s in context this might work for you too.Īs it turns out there is an array of Evernote search parameters that you can use from within the Evernote application and on the web interface. While I assumed there must be a way to do accomplish this in Evernote, I was wrong. So I set out for searching for a way to create a dynamic, consolidated list of the items in Evernote that I mark as “ToDo” (by adding the little checkbox) in Evernote, without the need for yet another 3rd party application. Of course some ToDo’s are easy to figure out and don’t need context (“Pick Up Dry Cleaning” for example), but with others, particularly those more business oriented, or associated with on-going projects, it helps to have other information to refer to. Yet there was a problem with those consolidated lists too… a lack of context around that ToDo item. Part of the problem was me, since I was used to a traditional ToDo lists (outside of Evernote) which were all consolidated and orderly. While Evernote has the ability to insert a checkbox ( instructions at the bottom of this post) into your notes to flag something as a “ToDo” item, it still fell a little short of this essential functionality since I now had to go through my notes to find the ToDo’s. I’ve been an Evernote user and big fan of the application for some time now but one thing I’ve struggled with in the application has been the disconnect between my notes and the various ToDo’s associated with them.

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