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Quick Tip Friday: Create Checklists Faster with Auto-Checkboxes

Tips + Guides | By Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Checkboxes in Evernote for Mac

We know a lot of Evernote users love checkboxes for to-dos, grocery lists, and more. Creating checkboxes in Evernote is easy: you can add them to notes from your desktop or mobile device. [Read the detailed post here.] A quick refresher:

  • Find the checkbox feature in Evernote on your iPad, Windows and Mac formatting bar. Tap the checkbox icon to create a new one.
  • To add checkboxes using your iPhone, tap on the note you’re working in and hit the ‘A’ icon in the lower right-hand corner to bring up formatting options. From there, tap the checkbox icon to add a new one.
  • When editing a note using your Android device, swipe the bar above the keyboard to display formatting options and select the checkbox icon.

Turn a list into a checklist in Evernote for Mac

In Evernote for Mac, you can turn a new or existing list into a checklist by simply highlighting the list, then selecting checkbox mode.

As you can see, you can create checkboxes from any version of Evernote, but on your Mac, iPhone, and Android device, you can now create checkboxes faster than ever. When you’ve selected the checkbox option, you’ll notice that when you move to the next line of text, a new checkbox will automatically be added. This feature lets you get into serious list-making mode so you can get more organized in your work and your life.

A number of platforms also support more advanced checkbox options, including indentation. Have you noticed that many versions of Evernote now let you create auto-checkboxes?

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  • Ric

    I find the check boxes as only partially helpful. Before Evernote I was using Voodoo Pad for all note taking and checklists. Its scriptability was fantastic, its sorting and formatting features made running everthing out of it painless. Unfortunately it was Mac only and I needed a solution that was PC, iOS and WebOS compatible as well. So that is when I discovered Evernote. Granted not all of the features from one OS are available on the others but the data is all available and can be added…with the caveat of the limitations and bugs of that version of Evernote for that device.

    For Task Managment I use Toodledo, from Toodledo.com, which is available on all of the OS platforms I work on. I use this as my EXECUTIONERS List, where stuff gets checked off and it appears with a line through it and sorted to the bottom. The calendar feature allows me to schedule the tasks and the history feature tracks everything. I have tried to do something similar with Evernote by creating the following folders
    - Today -
    - Tomorrow -
    - Week Later -
    - Whenever -
    And then I actively move around note tasks I have emailed my self from folder to folder as I beleieve I can get them done. But you must be honest with yourself when doing this. Once sorted, the items in Today get emailed to my Toodledo email, where they are executed. At night I check back to see which of the today notes can be deleted or archived as Toodledo is now tracking them. Hope that helps.

    • DeeDerHDG

      Great idea about the folders, thanks for sharing! This will be really useful for me.

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