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Salvatore Biscari
May 01, 2017Silver Contributor
Outlook Tasks in Microsoft To-Do
I have started to give a look to Microsoft To-Do. I am a (veeery) long time user of Outlook Tasks and I was pleased to see that Outlook Tasks got automatically synchronized in Microsoft To-Do. But I...
Salvatore Biscari
Mar 22, 2018Silver Contributor
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...
Allan_Clarke
Mar 22, 2018Iron Contributor
Yep, sorry, problem between keyboard & brain. Meant Microsoft To Do!