Inserting an Outlook Task

Talk about keeping you on track! Any Outlook task you add on a OneNote page automatically appears in your To-Do list in Outlook. If you, like many people, have ever failed to follow through on an action item because you didn’t copy it from your meeting notes to your calendar, this feature alone will make you more productive.

To add an Outlook Task into the notebook:

1.	Click in the page at the location where you want to insert the task.
2.	Choose Insert Outlook Task or click the drop-down list arrow for the Create Synched Outlook Task from This Note button on the Standard toolbar. A submenu or list of the flags that you can use to schedule the task, such as Today, Tomorrow, or This Week, appears.
3.	Click the desired flag. A note container with the specified flag appears. Note If you click Custom, a Task window from Outlook opens so that you can enter a custom Start Date and Due Date to schedule the task in the Outlook To-Do List.
4.	Type the note text and then click outside the note. The note appears with a flag icon beside it.

As shown in Figure 38-9, when you select the task in your Outlook To-Do list, Outlook identifies it as a task linked to OneNote. The two applications synch the task information. Marking the task as complete in Outlook, for example, identifies it as complete in OneNote, dimming the task flag for that note.

Figure 38-9. The selected task was created in OneNote and remains synched to the notebook.

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