Planner / Teams / to do / OneNote

Meetings exist to discuss different topics, provide context and information, and set action points. In other words, some sentences in meeting notes reflect actual tasks, but not all sentences do.

For my entire professional life, I have been looking for a solution where you can highlight a phrase or part of a phrase, right-click, and turn this into a task object that is picked up by professional project management tools.

To date, I have not found it. OneNote comes closest, with its To Do tags that you can query. Like you, I am a OneNote fan because it really can help project team communication. However, as you say, the integration with the rest of Office is haphazard at best. And the integration with a serious project management tool like MS Project Online is non-existent.

To me, having both OneNote and MS Project in their suite of software means that Microsoft sits on gold in this space. Sadly, it looks that they haven't figured it out yet that project managers need their scheduling tool AND meeting note tool to be integrated...

Projects need scheduling AND communication to work. Meetings lead to insights which change the schedule all the time. Not integrating MS Project with OneNote To Do tags is a great opportunity being missed.