Tip: Make a Packing List in Evernote

Tips and Stories | 03 Sep 201003 Sep 10 | By Ron Toledo

59 comments

Have a big trip coming up? Heading off to school? Planning a blowout BBQ? Make sure that you don’t forget anything by creating a packing list in Evernote.

You can create a checklist by simply clicking on the checkbox button in the note formatting bar from Evernote on your Mac, Windows, Android phone or Tablet. In the time leading up to your event, add new items as you think of them, then check them off from any device where you have Evernote installed. Forgetting to take that power cord or tub of potato salad will be a thing of the past.

Have you ever tried using Evernote for this? Tell us.

John

I agree with the @kannan – it’s a big pain that you have to add checkboxes manually – they should just work like bullet points in edit mode.

I like to make grocery lists with checkboxes but I hate adding the boxes one at a time.

@ricardo – they do sync, you just have to save/sync from mobile again after you have checked some of the boxes.
Tom

How do you actually create a ToDo List or any kind of list in evernote – anytime I create a new note or any kind of new list – when I click on the format link at the top – the Insert Todo is grayed out – I am stumped on how to actually create a todo list
http://pixelwavedesign.com Brad C.

Nice idea but having to manually create the boxes is frustrating – too much friction. Like John said, they should function like bullet points in a list.
Zakor

I don’t know where to make a feature request but I wish you could make checklists from iPad and iPhone. That is the number one thing I want to use. I’ll have to look for another solution.
Martin

+1 for checkboxes on iPad/iPhone feature…
Mark

Much of my work gets delegated through email. I need the ability to not only send an email to my predefined Evernote address with folder and tags identified using The @and # keys but I also need to be able to add To Do’s in this same shorthand method. In this way Egretlist would have my lists ready for me. This is a big “hole” for me. Now I have to leave email and think about the last 5 things I sent over to Evernote and create To Do’s.
kim

Many times I’m not near my computer and I would like to create lists on the fly on my android. Can you please make this possible?

Thank you.
Howard B

It is a bit tiresome having to manually put the checklist box in each time. It would be nice to have it as a format template.
- http://ColRD Danie Christopher
  
  Yeah, I’m very disappointing with how clunky the to-do list functionality is. Having to manually add a new checkbox for every row is pretty lame!
Adam

What is the hold up Evernote dudes?! Let me create checklists with my iPad! Aren’t you hearing us?!
Rob r

Need to be able to create checklists on iPad. What is best Evernote integrated tool???
Jacob Tewes

For some reason that didn’t show up correctly. There should be five spaces before the middle three line items, indenting them like a normal bulleted list.

Evernote Logo

The Evernote Blog

The Evernote Blog