Over time, most of us have developed a bit of a system for ensuring that certain notes on a page stand out so we can find them later. I usually explain tags as being similar what we do in our paper notebooks. You will find them in the Home ribbon as shown below.

Tags in OneNote (available in all versions) is a fantastic little feature. Let me explain those first, then I’ll come back to the creation of tasks. You are using tags aren’t you? If not, you should be. The key to creating tasks inside OneNote is a special type of tag. It doesn’t exist in OneNote for Windows 10 or OneNote for Mac.) (Note that this functionality currently only exists in OneNote 2016.

Better still, the new task is synced between both applications, so if you check it as complete in Outlook, it will show that way in OneNote, and vice versa. If you use both Outlook tasks and OneNote 2016, you should be aware of a clever way in which you can select any text inside OneNote and have that text automatically appear as a new task inside Outlook. Productivity Training for Executive Assistants & Directors.

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