OneNote Replica of Todopaper

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Someone recently asked how Microsoft Office OneNote could possibly be used as a replica of popular list manager Todopaper. Here's what I came up with:

  1. Add your to-do items to a OneNote page, one item per line.*
  2. If you want a to-do style check box next to an item, position the cursor on the desired line and insert a To Do tag (by pressing CTRL + 1 -- that’s default behavior in my version of OneNote anyway). When you complete an item, click the corresponding check box to put a check in it.  
  3. If you like strikethroughs, triple-click the line, and then select strikethrough formatting for the selected text.
  4. Add some headings to group the items for easier visual scanning.

* By the way, to save time creating new OneNote pages, you can click the Open New Side Note tray icon to create a new page and display it and type the content in there. You can access these pages later by clicking the Unfiled Notes button in the lower-left corner of OneNote itself.