One Note - Hiding completed tasks once completed on Desktop

Anonymous
2020-01-25T07:35:53+00:00

Where in One Note desktop version is the hide completed tasks from To Do lists. On my phone the completed tasks disappear but on the desktop they all remain making this a useless very long To Do list - finding open tasks is awful. Having to fully delete Tasks in To Do lists in Desktop OneNote leaves no record of ever doing the task. Often I want to check when I completed it - particularly with my work account. There should be an option in the ribbon to hide completed To Do's once completed. If it does exist I would love to know how to do it as I can't find it. 

I have started using OneNote at work and on my personal account for organising and recording daily activities and this flaw is making me have to look at alternatives for To Do lists which is a shame, as the mobile version seems to have the functionality. 

Regards

Julian Floyd

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-13T14:08:29+00:00

    I'm not sure if this will help, but I use my to do list on One Note in the "tags summary" option as this will pull my to do's from across the whole notebook, There is an option there to "only show unchecked items" which works well for me.

    I appreciate this is not helpful or anyone who writes a to do list all in one place rather than using the tags summary.

    A work around could be to use the tags summary to generate your to do list --> select "only show unchecked items" and then --> "Create Summary Page". This should create a summary page for you with only the unchecked items. You would, however, have to update this periodically to get rid of the checked items until MS fix this! But it could help in the meantime!

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-23T11:43:44+00:00

    I have the same issue and think this should be straightforward - MS please fix this.

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