Note Flags Summary

[Cindy Mikeworth]

I've got a bunch of to-do items, and have marked the really urgent ones with
a priority. Is there any way I can restrict my Note Flags Summary to only
display to-do items that are marked as priority?

If not -- does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks in advance

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I've got a bunch of to-do items, and have marked the really urgent
ones with a priority. Is there any way I can restrict my Note Flags
Summary to only display to-do items that are marked as priority?

If not -- does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks in advance

Not natively, but there are a couple of workarounds:

If they're spread out among several pages and sections, the best you can do
is to use the "Group Note Flags By" dropdown to sort by flag name; You
will have to scroll past the other names alphabetically to get to the
"Priority" flagged items. If the scrolling is an issue, you can rename the
"Priority" flag to "@Priority" and then reflag those items to ensure that
they will always appear at the top of an alphabetical list.

You can also create a Note Flag Summary Page (the button for this is at the
bottom of the Task Pane) and then delete the other non-"Priority" entries.

 

[raincity]

Cindy, follow the below link to an excellent article by Chris Pratley,
co-developer of OneNote, on using flags. He'll make you into a power flagger!

Here's his first paragraph:

I've written recently about some of the more exotic capabilities of OneNote,
but I thought I would spend a little time on Note Flags. Note Flags are one
of the fundamental features of OneNote that makes the power of having an
electronic notebook apparent. Oddly, although we consider Note Flags one of
the fundamental features of OneNote that everyone should be using, I still
meet people who either never use them, or have not discovered the awesome
power of Note Flags Summary. And they are still using OneNote - go figure

http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/default.aspx

raincity

 

[Bernd Kürbs]

Cindy, follow the below link to an excellent article by Chris Pratley,
co-developer of OneNote, on using flags. He'll make you into a power flagger!

Here's his first paragraph:

...

Thanks for posting this link.

One problem I stumbled across: I would like to limit the search to one
(or more) flag type(s). I have one called "Interest rates" and would
like to search for items flagged like this only. I could not figure out
how to do this.

Now I get all Note Flags aka categories and scroll through them - not a
big problem, but just convenience lacking.

Regards

Bernd Kuerbs