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Microsoft To Do vs Outlook Tasks
Is Microsoft To Do replacing Outlook Tasks? Or how do they work together? Is Outlook Tasks being retired? I'm a Technology Adoption Analyst who co-leads our Champions program and we want to make sure...
WillDeHaan hey, good questions
Why are there 2 places for To Do tasks?
Outlook tasks have been around for a long time and there would be users who still use it and the features are slightly different.
Is there a best practice or best overall tool to use for this? Is To Do a better tool to push to our end users since it integrates with Planner and Teams and Outlook?
I'd be promoting To Do for individuals.
- It has its own handy features (lists, grouped lists, smart lists, list sharing, tags, recognised dates, My Day etc)
- It's integrated with Microsoft Teams
- It surfaces your Planner items
- It surfaces flagged emails
- It has a dedicated app with mobile widgets
But you have to click on the link to see the email and it opens in (ahem) THE WEB BROWSER???? I mean...the mind boggles how that's an improvement. Also, you could previously right click on a task and easily had 20 options of functionality (including printing the email, changing the name of the task, color coding, finding similar emails, etc). Now, there are five, none of which go beyond just shuffling the items around to different lists. It's just laughably worse. If I were on the development team, I'd be embarrassed to roll that out.
I totally agree with this issue!. I can't for the life of me understand the thinking behind it. so you type an e-mail in outlook for windows, then you flag it so it creates a Task in ToDo under flagged e-mails. When you open it late from ToDo for windows you have to click on the link and it takes you to Outlook online which has less than half the functionality. Completely agree with your statements.