Recent Discussions
To Do SUCKS
I don't know who--or what team--designed To Do, but it is absolutely horrendous and is no replacement for Outlook Tasks, which gave you a FULL SCREEN to make notes, and it was easy to do (not pun intended) anything, but To Do opens a tiny window in the middle of the screen that CANNOT be resized, so you have a tiny, tiny pane on the right-hand side of this tiny screen to scroll up and down reading notes. It's beyond horrible. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can someone at Microsoft go back to the drawing boards and make an app that fills the whole screen, can be resized, and is easy to use?!
Dragging Task onto Outlook Calendar in Web does keep Category (color) (or notes or steps)
So categories could be useful. They have been added now to both the online ToDo app and Outlook Web Calendar. A great feature is in Outlook Calendar (web), you can choose from the top right the a ToDo list side menu and drag a task onto the calendar to make a quick 1/2 hour block and move it around. And you could color code this with categories. HOWEVER, they are not connected. If I choose a category (e.g. Purple) in ToDo and then drag onto the calendar the event does not have a category. I can add it AGAIN if I want or add a different one. (1) I noticed this drag and drop is one-way and any changes in the calendar are not reflected back onto the original task. Fine, you can fix that later, but (2) when I drag the task onto the calendar, why can't the category at least go with it? (3) I noticed the notes and steps don't translate either, but please, the category could be so useful.To-do List, Requesting Next Steps features be added
Microsoft, please consider improving your application to make it usable for your customers. It is lacking so many features that would be simple updates yet provide such a great benefit to the users. Next Steps to be added so that the steps can be viewed from the main view; if not shown by default, at least allow an expand option for users who actually work from the steps. Record a completion date for the steps that have been completed. This would be a great reference tool and should be as simple as populating the date the bubble is clicked for the individual step.
Steps should show up on a TO DO list!
I love the functionality of using "steps" within a task in "TO DO." However, when observing my tasks on my task list, I think it would be helpful to be able to see the steps underneath the task. The step list wouldn't need to be as pronounced as individual tasks. They could show up small... like the "1 of 3" steps completed notation shows up under the task... But being able to see the steps from the task list would be FANTASTIC.... Not to get picky, but it would be cool to be able to toggle the steps view on and off for a given task. (So maybe it shows up as a status (1 of 3 steps completed) but you could hit a drop down arrow that lets you see the list. Being able to check them off from that view would also be preferable. One last thought. Steps wouldn't necessarily have to disappear from the view (underneath the task) when they are completed... It would actually be helpful for them to remain listed (just like they do when you "expand a task" in case you complete steps in a different order. What I'm asking for is already present. The list of steps is visible when you click on a task. I just think it would be helpful if those steps could be visible ON the task list.
Feature Request: Add Start Date field
Using To Do to work with Outlook tasks is a HUGE problem because To Do has bafflingly omitted the Start Date field. Outlook has Start Dates. Todoist does. Microsoft's Planner does. In fact, every task management system I've ever seen has them. But not To Do, and that's despite the fact that it directly syncs with a program (Outlook tasks) that does. So, Microsoft sees the value of start dates in all of its other task management software, but the To Do team thinks it knows better? So who made this decision to hamstring To Do by leaving out this field?
Microsoft To-Do sync broken — Graph API returns 500 Internal Server Error on /me/todo/lists
Account: my personal microsoft account Issue: Microsoft To-Do has stopped syncing on all clients (web, Android app, Windows app) since approximately 2026-08-17 ~10:00 UTC. All clients show "syncing" indefinitely and never load any lists or tasks. What I've tested: To-Do Web UI (to-do.microsoft.com) — loads the shell but gets stuck infinitely. Browser DevTools show a 500 error on:The app cannot finish bootstrapping because of this failing endpoint. PATCH https://substrate.office.com/todob2/api/v1/settings/WunderlistImportStatus → 500 To-Do Android app — stuck on "syncing", never loads any lists. Microsoft Graph Explorer — GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/todo/lists returns: { "error": { "code": "UnknownError", "message": "", "innerError": { "date": "2026-08-17T14:49:16", "request-id": "1a8ecd9b-ad9d-4801-9f17-93d243ab6d7a", "client-request-id": "89c63f17-7b32-2cc8-df82-0712bd11e59f" } } } Other Microsoft 365 services — OneDrive works fine, test file synced. Account authentication is valid (Graph Explorer successfully queries /me). Re-login, account removal/re-add — tried on all clients, no change. No third-party integrations modified task data — verified via local opencode session database (zero Microsoft Graph/To-Do API calls found in any session). Never used any other 3rd party integration. Conclusion: The issue is a server-side error in the To-Do backend. The Graph API itself (/me/todo/lists) returns 500, and the substrate settings API also returns 500. This is not a client-side issue, not an authentication issue, and not caused by any third-party integration. The account-specific error suggests corrupted backend state or a service-side bug affecting this specific account. Request: Please investigate the server-side error for my account usinng the provided request IDs and restore To-Do sync access.MS To-Do app stops responding when on the 2d screen and being idle (not in focus) even a few seconds
In my case, there's laptop and an external monitor connected to it. MS To-Do app is always opened only in the external display. It's always in full screen. When I interact with the app (e.g., add a new task or adding info into an already created task), then switch to another app (e.g. Google Chrome on my main laptop's display) and then return back to the To-Do app, it stops responding COMPLETELY. Wherever I click on the app, it just won't react at all. The only way to bring in back to life is to kill it and relaunch again. But repeating this "kill-restart" cycle 50+ times EVERY SINGLE DAY is madness! Please fix this super-frustrating behaviour of the app ASAP!
Feature request: Add to My Day (Tomorrow)
I love the Add to My Day feature. I love that it disappears when the day is done. It's fantastic. But it only works for that day. I believe there is evidence that setting up a daily list the night before is more effective for productivity. I would like to request a feature for Microsoft To Do: Add to My Day (Tomorrow). This would be just like Add to My Day, except that the item would appear as already added to my day when tomorrow arrives. That's it. This is different from setting a due date of tomorrow. It's just putting it on tomorrow's My Day list. It may or not be due, but it's on the list.
To Do App Alternative that works directly with your M365 Account, for Classic Outlook Fans!
Hi Everyone I have built an app for you Classic Outlook task fans. My old favourite task app isn't being supported any more, so as a 20+ year Outlook and GTD veteran I decided to have a go myself and build something! Does your Todo crash because of too many completed tasks. Do you wish you could create views of your tasks including groups by category, priority, and filter by completed, due today, not dated Ability to use Classic Outlook "quick steps" style actions to tidy up your inbox Be able to print tasks in a lovely big old Outlook 97 style grid, direct from your phone Create tasks from emails, events from emails Keep your Outlook tasks perfectly intact and get going just by logging in to your M365 account? Take a look at https://tasksweep.appMS To-Do and Outlook Task duplicate notifications
Hi All, I have a question related to notifications of Outlook and To-Do when running on Windows 10 PC. As Outlook and To-Do are integrated on a M365 platform, To-dos appears as tasks in Outlook. When a reminder is triggered in MS To-Do I get a windows notification, which is what I expect, but I also get a Outlook notification for the same to-do but via Outlook tasks. Does anyone know a way around this duplicate alert that does not involve disabling Outlook notifications as a whole?Feature parity between Web and Desktop/Mobile TODO (Categories)
It looks like there isn't feature parity between the Web version of To Do and the Desktop/Mobile apps. Specifically, the web version has access to and displays UI components that allow us to select Categories to assign to our To Do items, yet this ability does not exist on the Desktop/Mobile Apps. Furthermore the display of assigned categories to Items created on the Web interface is not consistent on the Desktop/Mobile apps. The Desktop will show the category assigned to the item (but does not allow modification), however the Mobile App does not indicate any category assignment at all. Can we please get a feature parity w.r.t Categories between the Web, Mobile, and Desktop app of To Do ? Thank you.Tasks show up twice in To Do module in Outlook On Desktop
I have a strange problem with my tasks in the To Do module when it is used inside the Outlook app installed on my Windows PC. Some tasks show up twice there. When I check other places the task is listed only once there: On the To Do Webapp in the browser In the To Do App on my Android Phone When I start Outlook in the browser and check the To Do module there But on my Desktop in the Outlook App the task is listed twice. When I mark it a completed on my To Do app on my Android Phone one of the two task shown gets marked as completed (and is shown as completed in all three places mentioned above), however the other one stays in the not completed status. Triggering the Sync in the To Do module in Outlook does not solve the issue, restarting Outlook does not solve it as well. I have to delete the second task manually in the To Do module. This is really annoying because I get the reminder for a task from the outlook app on Windows but cannot really use Outlook to manage the task there. Does anyone else have this problem?Make overdue tasks more visible
I'm a heavy user of To Do, and despite using it every day for several months, I just found the Overdue list under Planned. This is a really important list for me, but burying it here make it much less accessible and valuable. I'd like to recommend two possible approaches to make overdue tasks more visible: Add an "Overdue" smart list to the sidebar, at the same level as Important, Assigned to Me, etc. Have an option to show overdue tasks in My Day similar to the current option for Due Today tasks.RAM leak in Microsoft To Do on OSX
Hi there. Thanks for the great product. Unfortunately, there is an issue with mac OS. Application freezes and I need to force quit it. After some investigation, I discovered that there was a memory leak. Usage of RAM is slowly increased until all available memory becomes used as a swap. Then the application freezes. The issue appears both on mac OS Catalina and Big Sur. I will highly appreciate any updates about this. ThanksSorting tasks into lists from “All” on mobile
I am not sure if I’m missing something, but is there an easy way to add tasks to a list from the ♾️ All list? I like to add tasks there then be able to add them to lists - I’m hoping to long press and add it to a list or select a list from a drop down when I click into the task. I’m aware of the sorting feature where you select multiple and add them to a list, but that is cumbersome when you only want to add one task to a list.Microsoft To Do Desktop version crashes after I setup Shared List
running Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 - in the desktop version of the To Do app, once I created a Shared File, if I click on an item (email, task, doesn't seem to matter), the app hangs and then closes. It doesn't matter if it is in the Shared File or in a different group. If I removed the Shared File group, I don't have problems crashing.
Recent Blogs
- 3 MIN READTask management while collaborating has never been easier. Now tasks created via Loop components sync across Microsoft 365 apps like Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Planner, and Tasks app in Teams. ...May 10, 2023
- 2 MIN READFeeling overwhelmed by tasks from multiple sources and struggling to stay organized? We have great news for you! We are thrilled to introduce the 'My Day' view in the 'Tasks by Planner and To Do' app...Apr 04, 2023
