Text Formatting ⇒ Environment with Frame?

[LaTexLearner]

I would like to make a custom environment that puts a frame around text, i.e. I'd like to put the frame thing in the second environment here. Any type of frame that is really easy to see when scanning the pages will do.

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\newenvironment{myitemize}
{ \begin{itemize}
    \setlength{\itemsep}{3pt}
    \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
    \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}     }
{ \end{itemize} 

\newenvironment{DN}
{\par\vspace{0.2\baselineskip}\noindent\\Do Now:\begin{myitemize}}
{\end{myitemize}}

Is that possible?

[Johannes_B]

The packages tcolorbox and mdframed might be just what you are looking for.
They are very easy to customize as well.

Of course, the LaTeX kernel provides a simple mechanism for frames as well, keyword here is framebox.