Quick Tip Friday: Create Checklists Faster with Auto-Checkboxes

Tips + Guides | 14 Sep 201214 Sep 12 | By Kasey Fleisher Hickey

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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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jwhiteman

Are others having issues with making a check list note – and then trying to copy and paste the checklist into another note – if you paste it without formatting all checkboxes are lost – very frustrating – any advice would be appreciated .
Dechen

It would be awesome it due dates were associated to the checklists that would function with iCal or reminders!
http://www.photosbyphoenix.com Phoenix

I’m a pro Evernote user, utilising it on Mac, Windows XP, iPhone and until recently Android. Not only does it work very well on all platforms, but it’s the ability to be up to date with my writing on whatever platform I’m using that day which is priceless. So few applications do this as well.

But to the guys who feel that the development is all going the way of the Mac: using it on all these systems on a daily basis I have to report that for my purposes the Windows version still wins! The Mac version needs some developing to catch up! (How about word counts at the bottom of each document, for example?)
Ron

I don’t see how to reorder a checklist! Totally useless if you can’t quickly re-order the items in a list. See Mobisle Notes to see how it’s done.
Yasha

speaking of Mac vs. Windows, why does Windows client get a useful “uncheck all checkboxes” menu command while Mac client does not?
http://www.mcs.co.uk richard van der knaap

I like to use check boxes in a number of notebooks

If I use check boxes in a number of different notebooks I would like to a list of just the check boxes and the description along side the check box. Not a list of the notebooks which contain the check boxes I would also like these is some date or priority order

Or maybe I am missing something?
Daniel Cowan

Wunderlist and Evernote integration?
Chris

Wow, lots of interesting comments. Love the check boxes, have used the before but stopped because there is no way to process them. I recognise this is a ‘wish’ but I (can’t speak for everybody else) don’t use Evernote as a ‘to-do’ list product. If you want to take this to the next level, somehow work out how to push the check boxes into a reminders list or (… outlook list, sorry windows peeps, not sure how outlook handles task lists). Even if it’s a user process of clicking a button that says “Send to Reminders” or Send to Outlook, that would be a massive productivity enhancement.
Mike B

When I highlight an existing list and click the check box button, my highlighted list is deleted and replaced with a single check box. What sort of (surely) user error am I committing? Many thanks.
Paul

i use mindjet mindmanager for my to do’s. It now syncs with dropbox but I’d prefer if it would synch with evernote, which I use for everythig else. Is that on the horizon?

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