If you’re with us at Microsoft Ignite this year—happening right now in Orlando, FL—you’ve already heard the big news about Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Teams. And if you’re not here, we’ve got you...
Updated Nov 03, 2019
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Announcing Tasks in Teams, a coherent task management experience in Teams.
Joanna Parkhurst, thanks for working on this! We've been waiting for more progress on consistent task management in Microsoft ecosystem for ages... It can still be super useful and exciting 🙂
"Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: starting January, you can add a task using @mentions in Word. The same functionality will be available in Excel and PowerPoint later in 2020."
What about OneNote?
It would be very helpful to be able to create a to-do/task from OneNote!
Based on the selected text and with @mentions.
In the business context, that's especially relevant for Planner and DevOps tasks.
It should align with and extend/replace Outlook Tasks integration in OneNote.
So that it can still be integrated with Outlook Tasks/To-Do, but support task assignment to other users we're collaborating with in OneNote.