Making the Ultimate ToDo List in Evernote

How do you make the ultimate ToDo list? It must be simple and accessible, but most importantly you must use it.

I have been a pro subscriber to Toodledo for a few years now - and very happy with the service. However, I find I am using it much less these days - not consciously but my use for it has diminished. Why? Because I've found the ultimate todo list inside Evernote.

It was something I could never get to work properly before. When I first started using Evernote, I used a ToDo tag to mark notes that I had work within. I would run this tag and then it would have my worklist. It was cumbersome because removing a tag isn't very fast. 

Then I found that using the tick boxes worked well - then search on the un-ticked box attribute. This was kind of annoying as you had to tick or remove the tick boxes from a note to remove it from the todo list. Sometimes this isn't desirable.

The answer was in the saved search operators. I made a new tag called "ToDo-Done", then created a saved search called "ToDo List" with the following operators: 
to-do:unfinished -tag:ToDo-Done

Any note that has unticked tick boxes with the "ToDo-Done" tag is not shown in this saved search. So now, my Project Sheets and Weekly Planner notes as well as reports to read all appear in my ToDo list. All I have to do is put a task in the note.
Posted on Monday, Jan 18, 2010