Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft® Office OneNote™ 2003

Using OneNote to Create a To-Do List

A popular use of OneNote is to create detailed to-do lists. You might create a to-do list while in a meeting and refer back to it at a later date. If you're working with a shared section, perhaps stored on a SharePoint Team Services Web site, you can keep multiple to-do lists for a project within that section. Each individual user can update their own to-do list, and the project manager can always access anyone's to-do lists.

Once you change the highlighting color, the new color becomes the default for the note. If you want to highlight another block of text with the same color, just click the button again. ...