Two flag questions: page titles and check box

[sprain195]

Hi --

New to Onenote, but very pleased with it so far. I've already created a
lot of information, so flags are critical. Two questions that would
make life easier (and not obvious from a forum search):

1. When an item is flagged, is there an automatic way to show the title
of the source page in the Note summary frame? My to-do's read like
"call back", and I need to either return to the source page to remember
who I need to call back, or I need to add a descriptive note with each
entry (which is a pain).

2. Is there a way to select the completed to-do's option and NOT
eliminate all the other no to-do flag categories? Without this
capability, it's hard to look at all your "going forward" flags.
Alternatively, is there a way to eliminate completed to do's without
returning to the source page and deleting them?

Thanks for the help

Ken

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Note flags are applied to the entire line/paragraph. You don't need to
select anything before applying the flag. What this means is that if you
just place the insertion point in the line to be flagged, and the line
does not have any hard line breaks, the entire paragraph should be
flagged, and the entire line will appear when you do a "Note Flags
Summary". When viewing the Note Flags Summary, you can then use the
"Group Note Flags by:" dropdown to group by Title.

The Note Flags Summary as it is implemented does not distinguish between
checkable and uncheckable (note that's different from checked vs.
unchecked). In my workflow, I get around it by just using the
"checkable" flags...

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

 

[sprain195]

Thanks for the suggestions. Second one first: easy workaround, I'll
just change the flags to checkable (even though I don't plan to check
them).

Regarding your first suggestion, it's a good solution if I wrote
complete sentences without hard breaks -- but I don't. My typical note
is something like 'call back Tuesday'. The only reference to the
subject is the title of the page (i.e. Jim). Thus, back to my original
question.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Ken