ebruin 4 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I believe what the normal person (outside the Evernote ecosystem and parlance) would call a "checkbox" is simply called a "to-do" in Evernote, correct? Just making sure I'm not missing anything obvious. Link to comment
Frank.dg 1,385 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 A checkbox in Evernote is called... a checkbox. Whether in Evernote or any other app or system, a checkbox is simply that. If you want to go ahead and call it a to-do item, that's quite correct too. In Evernote, the terminology is the same as other apps. Checkboxes. To-do's. Your call. Now if we're searching for notes with checkboxes in Evernote, we'll have to use the search syntax they decided upon many moons ago: Todo:falseTodo:trueNot only are there checkbox items in Evernote (within a note)... but one can also set reminders, which will show up in the Reminders List and show the Note Titles of the notes we set a reminder for. In the Reminders List one can check off reminders. They have checkboxes, which when checked will strike through the task/ to do/ reminder. But to avoid confusion when on the forums, it's best to call reminders reminders and checkboxes within your note bodies checkboxes. To-do's are used when talking about the search syntax for searching checkboxes... ... and then if you're not referring to any specific feature within Evernote - and you're talking about a workflow or task-management system in general, you'd probably use to-do's or tasks. Either way, forum members will figure it out and give you their take on whatever workflow or system you're trying to set up. In that sense, a to-do can take the form of a reminder, a checkbox... or a note title without a reminder which has a certain tag. You can create tags for certain tasks/ to-do items. If you're using a 3rd-party task-management app that syncs certain elements from Evernote... reminders, notes, tags and checkboxes can all be extracted and synced to a 3rd-party interface: Gneo - syncs all notes in your Gneo stack in EvernoteSunrise Calendar - syncs your remindersKanbanote - syncs tags/ notebooksSwipes - syncs notes with checkboxes tagged with "Swipes" All of the above can be called to-do's or tasks. "Checkbox" is used to identify the feature of the same name used in Evernote. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,149 Posted January 25, 2015 Level 5 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Frank offers some good points. Also, Evernote uses both terms (To-Do and CheckBox) in their program. Link to comment
Frank.dg 1,385 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Well spotted @jbenson2! Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,311 Posted January 25, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted January 25, 2015 I believe what the normal person (outside the Evernote ecosystem and parlance) would call a "checkbox" is simply called a "to-do" in Evernote, correct? Just making sure I'm not missing anything obvious.Yes. Link to comment
ebruin 4 Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 A checkbox in Evernote is called... a checkbox. Whether in Evernote or any other app or system, a checkbox is simply that. If you want to go ahead and call it a to-do item, that's quite correct too. In Evernote, the terminology is the same as other apps. Checkboxes. To-do's. Your call. Now if we're searching for notes with checkboxes in Evernote, we'll have to use the search syntax they decided upon many moons ago: Todo:falseTodo:trueNot only are there checkbox items in Evernote (within a note)... but one can also set reminders, which will show up in the Reminders List and show the Note Titles of the notes we set a reminder for. In the Reminders List one can check off reminders. They have checkboxes, which when checked will strike through the task/ to do/ reminder. But to avoid confusion when on the forums, it's best to call reminders reminders and checkboxes within your note bodies checkboxes. To-do's are used when talking about the search syntax for searching checkboxes... ... and then if you're not referring to any specific feature within Evernote - and you're talking about a workflow or task-management system in general, you'd probably use to-do's or tasks. Either way, forum members will figure it out and give you their take on whatever workflow or system you're trying to set up. In that sense, a to-do can take the form of a reminder, a checkbox... or a note title without a reminder which has a certain tag. You can create tags for certain tasks/ to-do items. If you're using a 3rd-party task-management app that syncs certain elements from Evernote... reminders, notes, tags and checkboxes can all be extracted and synced to a 3rd-party interface: Gneo - syncs all notes in your Gneo stack in EvernoteSunrise Calendar - syncs your remindersKanbanote - syncs tags/ notebooksSwipes - syncs notes with checkboxes tagged with "Swipes" All of the above can be called to-do's or tasks. "Checkbox" is used to identify the feature of the same name used in Evernote. This is the kind of info I was looking for (but didn't even know it). Super helpful. Thanks! Link to comment
ebruin 4 Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Also, Evernote uses both terms (To-Do and CheckBox) in their program.Yup. Little details like this are what confused me. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted January 25, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted January 25, 2015 Essentially synonymous.Just to reinforce what's been said above: Basically, in Evernote there are checkboxes that you can place in your text. Anywhere in your text. Two in a row, without intervening text, even. Checkboxes are completely independent objects, with no Evernote-supported relationship with any nearby text. Evernote has confused things a bit by also using the term "To-do", and that's reinforced by the search language's "todo:" term, but they only reflect the state of any checkboxes in a note. And you can check or uncheck all checkboxes in a note. On the other hand, users of To-do list software often use "To-do" to refer to a piece of text or other content along with some sort of marker indicating completion (usually a checkbox icon), and possibly a strikeout visualization, etc. This sort of UI is not supported directly by Evernote. In Evernote, you operate on checkboxes, aka To-dos. Link to comment
Frank.dg 1,385 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 In Evernote, you operate on checkboxes, aka To-dos. Reminders are also to-do's... or if you use something similar to the GTD-esque "The Secret Weapon", simple note titles with relevant tags can also be to-do's. If you use any of a number of 3rd-party Evernote task-management apps, one such example being iOS's "Gneo", the mere fact that a note is in the Gneo stack makes it a to-do item since it is mirrored on any number of Eisenhower Matrices you set up by way of notebooks in Gneo/ Evernote, which automatically generates an Important/ Urgent tag according to which quadrant you drop your task into. So to-do's in Evernote (broadly speaking) include checkboxes, but are far from limited to such. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted January 26, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted January 26, 2015 "Broadly speaking", sure. However... Reminders are not Evernote "To-dos"; to-dos and checkboxes are conflated in the Evernote UI; Evernote reminders are not. A "todo:*" search will find notes with checkboxes; it will not find reminders unless they contain checkboxes. Reminder searches will not find notes with checkboxes unless those notes also contain reminder information. Evernote reminders are notes; Evernote todos/checkboxes are contained in an Evernote note (is-a vs. has-a relationship). What people choose to call these things or how they use them in the privacy of their own homes is one thing, but conflating different features under a common term leads to confusion. Link to comment
Frank.dg 1,385 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 We're on the same page. Was just clarifying your general statement that I quoted. We operate on more than checkboxes in Evernote... But then we both know that. It was not for your benefit. Link to comment
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