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Creating a "Personal" Plan to store tasks not associated with any Team or Project
- I am currently running through the same process, as I would like to keep my tasks in one ecosystem, and not use another - possibly paid - third party application. I was thinking about trello before I discovered that there is planner. I am starting with planner next week, but I am quite shook that it might be so uninviting to use it as an individual.
Microsoft Todo is actually very basic - why not make planner the standard level of task management for everything?
Jill McDevitt Agreed. I have tasks I need to complete which I either don't want or can't allow to be visible to all team members. Two, scratch that, three options would be ideal for me.
- the ability to hide some of my tasks or possibly the details of the tasks from some team members
- the ability to create a personal planner not attached to a group. This one I thing would be widely appreciated as it is ideal to be able to filter all of your tasks by project/application tag.
- Just thought of this now. It would be ideal if I had a cenral view of all of my planner items for all of the teams I am in. Then I would have a list of all of my project tasks and ideally (perfect world thinking here) I could add my own tasks which are not associated with any project. One filterable view of everything on my plate!
The idea of having to use a different tool for personal task management vs. team task management seems odd when I have a perfectly good tool already.
- Have you found a solution to this yet?
I'm looking for the same thing.
In my case I can't create a new team or group myself as that is disabled by our IT team. I could create a new plan associated with an existing project and 'piggy back' on that - but that would be cheating and when I do that its visible to everyone already in that same team. And of course I don't want everyone in that project based team to see all my personal tasks.
I'm wondering if To-Do is the solution to this an if there is a way to merge the to-do tasks into Planner so I can see my personal tasks next to my assigned project level tasks.I am looking exactly for the same. I would like that each user could be able to use a planner for himself.
Shane_HillTotally agree - why should I NOT be using a useful and reasonably functional tool for my personal tasks just because someone linked it to the Outlook groups and now it's an administrational mess? Yes, I do understand that its focus is on team tasks, but -as you said - there are always tasks that are not relevant to any of my teams and I don't appreciate being told that I have to use the VERY basic ToDo list. That's kind of "Back to the 90s" in terms of task management. So, back to Trello, I guess ...
