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How to connect Wunderlist with OneNote
How to connect Wunderlist with OneNote
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Written by Vic K
Updated over a week ago

Disclaimer

Wunderlist was a popular task management application that allowed users to create and organize to-do lists. However, Microsoft acquired the app and gradually retired it in favor of their own task management app called Microsoft To Do

Microsoft encouraged Wunderlist users to transition to Microsoft To Do, and they provided tools to assist with the migration of tasks and lists from Wunderlist to the new app.

Pleexy creates tasks in your Wunderlist from to-do items in your OneNote notes. Pleexy can group all the to-dos from one notebook under parent tasks and automatically complete OneNote to-dos when you complete tasks in your Wunderlist.

After you connect OneNote as a source service, you can customize your OneNote and Wunderlist integration exactly the way you want. First, navigate to the page where you can change settings:

  1. From the Pleexy dashboard, inside the OneNote card, click Details.

  2. Click Edit settings.

On this page, you can customize the connection's name. You can also adjust the settings for Source, Destination, Tasks, and Actions. Let’s walk through your options for each.

Source settings 

Source settings let you configure how Pleexy searches for notes in OneNote. You can filter notes by notebook, section, type, and last update.

  • Notebooks: Click the drop-down menu to select which OneNote notebooks Pleexy should search. If you don’t select specific notebooks, Pleexy will search all notebooks.

  • Sections: Click the drop-down menu to select which OneNote notebook sections Pleexy should search. If you don’t select specific sections, Pleexy will search all sections in the specified notebooks.

  • Types: Click the drop-down menu to select which note types Pleexy should search. Again, if you don’t select specific types, Pleexy will include all note types in the specified notebooks and sections.Available types include:
    To Do
    Discuss with person
    Discuss with manager
    To Do Priority 1
    To Do Priority 2
    Client request
    Schedule meeting/Call back

  • Last update: If you want Pleexy to ignore OneNote notes that you consider out-of-date, no problem! For example, if you enter ‘30,’ Pleexy will ignore OneNote notes that haven’t been updated in the last 30 days

Pleexy combines your settings for these four filters. For example, if you select the notebook Class To-Dos, select all sections, specify the types To Do Priority 1 and To Do Priority 2, and enter 30 days, Pleexy will search for notes that meet all three requirements:

Located in Class To-Dos notebook

+ Located in any notebook section

+ Type is To Do Priority 1 or To Do Priority 2

+ Updated less than 30 days ago

Destination settings 

Destination settings define how Pleexy creates tasks in your Wunderlist. You have two destination options:

  • Create all tasks in one project: Create tasks from all OneNote notes in the same Wunderlist project. Click the drop-down menu to select the Wunderlist project to use.
    Note: If you want Pleexy to create tasks in a new Wunderlist project, log in to your Wunderlist and create the new project there. Back in your Pleexy settings, in the project drop-down menu, click Refresh to update the list of projects.

  • Use an individual project for each notebook: Create tasks from each OneNote notebook in a different Wunderlist project. Click the drop-down menu to select the root Wunderlist project to use. Pleexy will create individual projects within the root project you select for the tasks from each OneNote notebook.
    Note: If a project with the same name already exists in the root project you select, Pleexy will use it instead of creating a new project. This way, Pleexy can combine tasks from different source services in the same project. For example, Pleexy will create tasks from a “Development” notebook in OneNote and a “Development” board in Trello in a single root project.

Task settings

In the Task settings, you can specify how Pleexy creates, names, and synchronizes tasks and task attributes.

Under Task title template, use macros to customize how Pleexy names your tasks. For OneNote integrations, five elements are available for task names: {notebook}, {section}, {page}, {todo}, and {todo_type}.

As you change your task title template, Pleexy shows how your changes will look in a live example under the template field. You can combine the macro elements however you want, as long as you get the formatting correct. Here are some ideas:

  • {todo} from {notebook}: {todo_type}

  • {notebook} - {section}: {todo}

Note: If you manually edit a task title in Wunderlist, Pleexy won’t update or change your edited title.

You can also toggle-on the Create grouping task for each note option. If you select this option, Pleexy lists all todos for each notebook, section, and page under a single parent task. For example:

{notebook}: {page}

To-do

To-do

To-do

Use the {notebook}, {section}, and {page} elements to specify the title template for the parent task option.

Action settings

Actions settings let you control what Pleexy will do when you change, complete, or delete tasks in OneNote or Wunderlist—both sides of the integration!

First, tell Pleexy what should happen in Wunderlist when you delete a to-do in OneNote. Click the drop-down to select one option:

  • Delete corresponding task: Pleexy will delete the corresponding task in Wunderlist

  • Do not touch task: Pleexy will leave the corresponding task in Wunderlist

Second, specify what should happen in Wunderlist when you complete a to-do in OneNote. Click the drop-down menu to select one option:

  • Complete task: Pleexy will mark the corresponding task as complete in Wunderlist

  • Do not touch task: Pleexy will not mark the corresponding task as complete in Wunderlist

Third, tell Pleexy what should happen in OneNote when you complete a task in Wunderlist. Click the drop-down menu to select one option:

  • Complete todo: Pleexy will mark the corresponding to-do as complete in OneNote

  • Do not touch todo: Pleexy will not mark the corresponding to-do as complete in OneNote

Now you know all about your options for integrating OneNote with your Wunderlist! Don’t forget to scroll down and click Save changes when you’re finished customizing.

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