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Salvatore Biscari
May 04, 2017Silver Contributor
Outlook Tasks management with Microsoft To-Do
An interesting perspective about Microsoft To-Do as an Outlook Tasks management tool: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/outlook-task-management-with-microsoft-to-do
VasilMichev
May 04, 2017MVP
Happy to give it a try once it appears for regular O365 subscriptions, but I'm not gonna use yet another app for task management. Put it inside Outlook or make it Office add-in or whatever, we have the technology :)
- Salvatore BiscariMay 05, 2017Silver Contributor
A couple of comments:
- Microsoft To-Do is already working (well, more or less...) for O365 subscriptions. Only, you cannot login with an O365 account (i.e. not an MSA) to the To-Do website. But the Windows 10 app and the mobile apps have all the features of the website, so IMO the ability to login to the latter is not really necessary.
- Given the launch of To-Do with a bidirectional real time sync (cloud-to-cloud) with Outlook Tasks, I am afraid that we will never have another tool. That is, Microsoft To-Do is the new (and, in perspective, the only) tool to manage Outlook Tasks in O365.
- In any case, Microsoft To-Do at the moment has one zillion bugs and quirks. BTW, it badly screwed all my carefully crafted Outlook Tasks!) Let's hope it will improve...
Just my two cents...
- VasilMichevMay 05, 2017MVP
Yes, but those are still different apps, and I really hate having to switch between apps to do basic tasks. My point is that we have numerous options available now to deliver such tools as add-ins in Outlook/OWA and Office in general. Yet Planner never released such, now Todo seems to be following the same model with separate app... On the other hand MyAnalytics has a fab add-in, so obviously it can be done, if there's the desire to go down that road.
And to be honest, the few times I've given Wunderlist a try I wasnt really impressed. Anyway, as I said I havent tried Todo yet, so I cannot really comment on it :)
- Christian LangFeb 14, 2018Copper Contributor
...and what I don't get: why is there no Outlook add-in for Microsoft To-Do? I mean, it would be nice to still have tasks and everything in Outlook, rather than having To-Do as a separate program.