Sams Teach Yourself Lotus Notes 7 in 10 Minutes

Chapter 11. Working with To Do Items

In this lesson, you learn how to manage your To Do list. You learn how to create and respond to To Do items, convert Mail Messages to To Do items, and view To Do status.

Creating To Do Items

To help keep track of all the things you have to do, create a personal To Do item. The difference between a To Do item in Notes and a Follow Up item (see Chapter 4, “Managing Mail”) is that a Follow Up item flags an email as a reminder and a To Do item allows you to fill in detailed information about the item.

Once created, you can view To Do items in your To Do view or optionally display them in your calendar. To access the To Do view, click the To Do bookmark as shown in Figure 11.1.

Figure 11.1. The To Do view is accessed ...