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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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-05T17:34:38+00:00

    We are now at March of 2021 and nothing has changed and Microsoft has not responded to this thread at all. It is a simple programming fix that, obviously, users are begging for. I cannot fathom why this is so difficult. When the check box gets clicked, the item gets deleted.... you can even have a pop up box asking "are you sure?" if you want....

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-05T18:13:00+00:00

    Following up from 6 months ago. Can someone from Microsoft acknowledge this issue?

    Issue:

    We want to be able to hide completed tasks in a Task List on the Desktop OneNote App. Just like we can filter Outlook to see unread emails, we want the ability to view uncompleted tasks in OneNote and for the same rationale: to view only what needs to be done, not what is done.

    Can Microsoft please reply with one of the following:

    1. We hear you but need to understand more about your issue
    2. We hear you and understand your issue, we are evaluating
    3. We heard you and a fix is coming
    4. We heard you and we're not going to add this functionality

    Please and thanks,

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-12T23:07:19+00:00

    Seriously MSFT.  This is needed.  I love OneNote and use it all day, every day.  But just follow the lead of every other note-taking app in the world when it comes to To Do lists.  When a box is checked, move the checked items to the completed section.  Or something. Something different. Anything.

    As a solution - albeit painful, I created a box on the right of my main to do list.  I cut and paste the checked items over on the right hand side while leaving the unchecked on the left.  Which has then turned into more of a Kanban approach.  It works, but it's not ideal. 

    Teams as a ToDo list which sync's into your Outlook to do's, which is nice, but too basic.

    Google Keep's to-do functionality is amazing, but falls behind as a note taking app.  It's more like sticky notes. 

    Would love to see MSFT do something about this.

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  5. 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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