Notes Todo Item Count

1. open Joplin: Open the named app to inspect the Ideas folder's to-dos.
2. tap “Ideas notebook”: Open the Ideas notebook from the sidebar to count its to-dos.
3. tap “Back from Health note”: The screen is a Health note rather than the Ideas notebook, so return to the notebook list to locate Ideas.
4. tap “Sidebar”: The All notes view is showing; open the sidebar to navigate specifically to Ideas.
5. tap “Ideas notebook in open sidebar”: The sidebar is now visibly open; Ideas is the exact notebook entry. Open it to count its to-dos.
6. tap “Sort notes by”: Ideas folder is open despite the stale stagnation notice. Sorting/filtering may group all to-dos so the full count is visible together.
7. pressBack:
8. scroll down: Inspect the rest of the Ideas notebook for additional to-do checkbox rows before counting.
9. tap “Sort notes by”: Inspect available sorting or filtering options to distinguish to-dos in Ideas from ordinary notes.
10. pressBack: Dismiss sorting dialog to inspect checkbox rows in Ideas notebook.
11. tap “Search Ideas to-dos”: Use Joplin search to filter Ideas entries to to-dos, since list titles do not expose note type.
12. fill “Joplin search field” with “type:todo notebook:Ideas”: Search is now visibly open despite the stale no-effect notice. Filter to to-dos in Ideas using Joplin search operators.
13. report “3”: The Joplin search for to-dos in the Ideas notebook visibly lists three checkbox items: Recipe Ideas, Financial Plan, and Work Tasks.

Verdict: The search for to-dos in the Ideas notebook shows exactly three results, so the reported answer, 3, is correct.