{todonotes} is a package that helps the user keep track of to-do notes and things to be addressed before the document is complete.

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How to add todo notes?

Is there a simple way to add todo notes to LaTeX documents ? I would like to have these notes in red in the generated pdf and a simple syntax to write them.
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How to keep track of necessary changes (“todo”) for a large document?

Working on my Ph.D. thesis I use the fixme package to add notes and comments to my pdflatex document and I have defined several types of notes for easily seeing the difference between "substantial" ...
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How can I get todonotes in the left margin

I want to use the package todonotes. Standard, the package prints the todo's in the right margin, while I want to have them in the left margin. Funny is, that in the manual itself they are placed in ...
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todonotes and tikzexternalize

In my document I use todonotes and TikZ/pgfplots. After activating the externalization in TikZ I realized that todonotes are all exported as well (because they are based on TikZ). This behaviour is ...
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Todonotes produces double inline notes instead of single margin note (with classicthesis 3.0)

I am writing my PhD thesis using the classicthesis style/package. Until few days ago I was using TeXLive 2009 from the Ubuntu 11.04 repositories. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 I decided to install ...
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How to use nameref to refer to a section without including the output of any commands in the title of that section?

Background (simplified) I'm using the todonotes package to add todonotes to sections in my documents. I have created a macro to add the todonotes to sections such that they appear alongside the ...
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To-do-notes in separate TeX File, but without \listoftodo in main doc

I am using the todonotes package and have three requirements, the first two which the MWE already does: Obtain a list of todo notes in a separate auxiliary file. This can easily be obtained via the ...
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Todo note steals space

I'm writing a larger document and I use the todonotes package to add reminders. For some reason, when I add a note, the space after the note's insertion point is removed. Here's minimal example: ...
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Patching commands to remove surrounding whitespace

I'm using the todonotes package to add little margin notes to my text, however writing Hello\todo{test} World! removes the interword space as is already pointed out in this question. So I tried ...
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Replacing page number with other counter in listoftodos

I'm using the todonotes package to add notes in my documents. The \listoftodos command adds a ToC for todos. Instead of the page numbers in this ToC, I would like to display another value, for ...
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To-do-notes in a separated TeX file

Is it possible to compile a file with the extract package that just includes the \listoftodos (todonotes package) of another file?