The integration of Outlook’s OneNote with Outlook gives you many great collaboration features, one of which is the ability to view and track your OneNote to-do list tasks within Outlook. This gives you the best of both worlds. You can set up individual to-do lists for all your projects within OneNote. Then, you can use the reminder and task progress features to stay on top of the tasks within Outlook. Below are the step-by-step instructions for integrating OneNote to-do list with Outlook tasks.
Creating OneNote To-Do List
- Navigate to the OneNote page where you will be creating your to-do list.
- Make sure your cursor is within the body of the page.
- Click the Home Tab.
- Click To-Do Tag from the Tag group.
- Type your task and press Enter.
- Continue typing your tasks. Use the tab key to indent notes for additional organization.

Insert meetings from Outlook into OneNote. If you have meetings coming up in Outlook and want to. Open a new OneNote window. Create a Quick Note. Windows logo key+Alt+N. Dock the OneNote window. Undo the previous action. Redo the previous action, if possible. Select all items on the current page. To expand the selection, press Ctrl+A again. Cut the selected text or item. Create a Notebook. Just like physical notebooks, OneNote notebooks are a collection of note pages.
Create Outlook Tasks from OneNote Items


- Highlight the words from the OneNote To-Do List item to be your task.
- From the menu that appears, click the down arrow next to the Outlook Tasks button.
- Choose the appropriate reminder for your tasks.
- The task is flagged in OneNote.
- The task has been added to your To-Do List in Outlook. NOTE: If you will be adding various to-do lists with similar tasks, make sure you include enough details in your task items to differentiate them within Outlook.
- From Outlook, select the Tasks App.
- Scroll through your tasks to the added item.
Marking Tasks as Complete
- From OneNote, click on the flag Next to the task that has been completed.
- The task is also marked complete in Outlook.
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