itemize inside todonote?

Question

I'm using todonotes to make notes on my thesis. I'd like to be able to put some dot-points on a couple of the larger notes, like this:

\todo[inline]{
  \begin{itemize}
    \item blah blah blah
  \end{itemize}
}

But I get this error message:

! Argument of \reserved@a has an extra }.
<inserted text>
            \par
l.9 }

Is there anything I can do to get around this, or is it basically not worth trying?

Answer 1

You have to use the caption option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\begin{document}
\todo[inline,caption={}]{
  \begin{itemize}
    \item blah blah blah
  \end{itemize}
}
\end{document}

As described on page 12 of the manual LaTeX will otherwise try to embed a minipage which leads to an error.

Answer 2

The colon problem occurs if the prependcaption option is set in the package options.

If you remove this option, the set caption (or the colon, if the caption is empty) is no longer displayed on the left.