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Outlook Tasks in Microsoft To-Do
Thanks Sergei.
This morning the notifications appeared on my iPhone.
Unfortunately, though, Microsoft To-Do TOTALLY screwed my Outlook Tasks, changing all the start dates of the recurring tasks (and also of some other non-recurring tasks): really a mess!
Luckily, before activating To-Do (being it a preview...), I made a backup of all my Outlook Tasks (that in my case are about 200) and therefore I have been able to restore them without further problems.
Well, I think To-Do has still a long journey to-do (pun intended) before being ready with Outlook Tasks integration, so I give up for the moment.
We will see...
cc Candy Ho
Agree, Tasks has a long way to go. There's currently little similarity with Outlook 2016 (Tasks) and the Tasks app itself. The Outlook version of Tasks is far more detailed and when you try to mix the two you get the issues you refer to.
I think you mean Microsoft To-Do, don't you? :-)
Anyway, I am now using routinely Microsoft To-Do and this is my takeaway:
- To-Do is basically a view of Outlook Tasks: all folders in To-Do are bidirectionally synced with Outlook Tasks folders in EOL. This is a point that is important to grab!
- In To-Do, you have by default an additional folder called My Day, which is, in turn, a view of items in other To-Do folders. This means that there is not a corresponding folder in Outlook Tasks and that you can add to My Day only tasks that already exist in other folders. (I don't need and don't use My Day.)
- Outlook Tasks have many more fields than tasks in To-Do, but such fields are not scrambled when you manipulate tasks in To-Do, which is good.
- Notifications in To-Do now work regularly (at least in the IOS app).
- Outlook Tasks are not scrambled anymore by To-Do.
- AFAIK, To-Do is the best way available to use Outlooks Tasks on an iPhone and it is free.
Just my two cents...
Perhaps it's only To-Do on Windows 10 (from the Store) that is a mess.
Yesterday, I started up To-Do and today, it began trashing my task list. It presented items (without the dates) as DUE and offered 'Snooze' or 'Completed' as my options.
I clicked 'Completed' on a task due today and To-Do presented the same data a second time. (It turned out to be the newly created task for tomorrow. I clicked 'completed' again and then look in Outlook where I found Tomorrow's version of the task ALSO marked completed. So I unchecked it and noticed there were TWO copies of the task for tomorrow. One marked complete by To-Do and another created by Outlook but not (yet?) marked as completed. So I rechecked the duplicate and UNINSTALLED To-Do yet again.
unless you want to remind yourself to 'collect a bottle of milk' or 'walk the dog or 'put socks on' then i would avoid MS To-do like the plague...what a dissapointment. arguably one the most critical elements of GTD, and MS continue to under think and underinvest in this vital need.
Salvatore, thanks for sticking with this issue. Appears to-do now works and Im giving it a go.
Of interest, I'm also now starting to switch over to one-note for managing my projects and volumes of notes. I have successfully created an outlook task in one-note, which then syncs to both outlook and Microsoft to-do. That type of integration is very useful for those that might use it.
Regards,
- Yep, sorry, problem between keyboard & brain. Meant Microsoft To Do!
