How to hide todo notes without deleting them manually?

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I'm using the package todonotes. How can I disable the todo notes for printing my final document? (I know it's possible, but I can't find it and I don't want to (manually) delete all my notes in the document...)

I've read the documentation, but I still have NO clue on what to type to disable todonotes. This is all I have in my preamble:

\usepackage{todonotes}
\newcommand{\td}[1]{\todo[inline]{#1}}

but commenting any of those will keep my note's text on the spot and just remove the formatting. I couldn't figure out what to type to fully remove that unless I go one by one and do it.

When you don't want your notes to be visible just change \usepackage{todonotes} to \usepackage[disable]{todonotes} — Splashy, Nov 02 '10 at 14:17
Using the official methods is better, but you could just redefine the macro: \renewcommand{todo}[2][]{}. — Peter Grill, Oct 09 '12 at 01:13
how can I restore it easily, then? For me, an environment would work best to temporarily disable todo. — Frederick Nord, Dec 02 '21 at 20:49

score 140 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 02 '10 at 14:31

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I just got it: for notes not to be visible just change:

\usepackage{todonotes}

to

\usepackage[disable]{todonotes}

edited Nov 02 '10 at 14:31

Pieter

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answered Nov 02 '10 at 14:19

Splashy

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levesque · Answer 2 · 2012-10-09T01:07:23.443

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You can also give it the obeyDraft option (\usepackage[obeyDraft]{todonotes}), so that it will display todonotes if your document is in draft mode and hide them if it isn't in draft mode. However, be aware that the draft mode also only shows bounding boxes for images, so that might be an issue.

edited Oct 09 '12 at 01:07

answered Nov 02 '10 at 14:33

levesque

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My preferred option for todonotes is obeyFinal. With this option, todonotes will be disabled only in final mode. – Dario Seidl Nov 05 '13 at 15:28
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to have the images displayed even on draft mode, you can use \usepackage[final]{graphicx} – carandraug Jan 06 '16 at 14:30

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '21 at 08:51

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My preferred way is \presetkeys{todonotes}{disable}{} in the preamble, which also works in case todonotes has been loaded by some previous file, and you can't easily change its \usepackage line.

answered Jul 07 '21 at 08:51

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 08 '21 at 20:01

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An easy hack is to redefine command \todo somewhere at the top of document, e.g.

\renewcommand{\todo}[1]{}

This comes handy especially when your document is structured into multiple files, and you can not simply have control over \usepackage.

answered May 08 '21 at 20:01

Roman Dobiáš

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sometimes, todo has an optional argument, though :-/ – Frederick Nord Dec 02 '21 at 20:47

How to hide todo notes without deleting them manually?

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