Forum Discussion
Ability to send an email to Planner and create a Task
Is this on the roadmap? Our organization is starting to lose the battle of using Planner instead of Trello, pretty much because of the sole feature that Trello allows you to send an email to a sp...
It looks like this is coming:
“We’re in the process of finalizing designs for a Planner add-in for Outlook. From the add-in, users will be able to create tasks for Planner without having to leave their inbox. The email subject and body will autofill as the task title and description, respectively, and users will have the ability to set plan, bucket and assignees . We appreciate your feedback and patience and look forward to this first step in what we hope to be a greater integration with Outlook!”
Source: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/14767056-create-task-by-sending-an-email-to-the-plan
“We’re in the process of finalizing designs for a Planner add-in for Outlook. From the add-in, users will be able to create tasks for Planner without having to leave their inbox. The email subject and body will autofill as the task title and description, respectively, and users will have the ability to set plan, bucket and assignees . We appreciate your feedback and patience and look forward to this first step in what we hope to be a greater integration with Outlook!”
Source: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/14767056-create-task-by-sending-an-email-to-the-plan
Matthew Jarsky Outlook add-on doesn't even begin to cut it. I need to be able to create tasks regardless of whether I'm using webmail, windows desktop mail (outlook), Apple mail (definitely not going to start using outlook there), iPhone (no outlook, plus I doubt it'd have that functionality anyway) or any of the linux devices I've got. Simply being able to forward an email to an address works everywhere, with every client. Nothing else comes even close.
I've been trying to migrate to Planner from Trello, but I guess I'll just forget about it and check again in a decade. Maybe Planner is closer to being useful then. 😕