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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
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I am having the same issue. Would love to see this fixed. To-Do list sorting would also be extremely useful for our small business
@microsoft - it's about time this is fixed. It's a simple fix and a global problem that many have now commented on and really diminishes the use of desktop OneDrive. I now use Apple reminders instead - I bet others are trying to find alternatives that work.
I raised the initial thread in early 2020 and it's still not closed out... come on - get the job done!
Hi, please see below. It's an old list below but I want the old items to disappear - as they do in iOS app. The tasks with ticks could have been completed months ago but still appear and all I want to see is open tasks - ie ceiling in kitchen (as below)
I am having the same problem and it seems unbelievable that this is hard to understand. Certainly when you make a checklist, there should be some way to get the completed items to be hidden. So basic. I'm using Onenote, not 2016, just Onenote for Windows 10. Three months and no solution? Really?
Hi Bob,
Thanks for your response.
Your response is not technically correct. My Office 365 OneNote does sync over my devices. I use on desktop, laptop and on Iphone app and they sync.
On the Iphone, when I click a To Do task complete, it is then hidden, leaving the balance of tasks To Do visible. On the desktop version the tasks all sit there struck through but visible in a gigantic list and finding the To Do tasks is a hunt through a long list. My query is why isn't this function available as an option on the desktop? I don't want to see all my completed tasks when I have finished them, but would like the facility to find them later to see what date I did complete in the future.
Hope this helps. It's an easy fix for Microsoft with an option in desktop app that isn't currently available. It will improve the desktop One Note app.
Regards
Julian Floyd