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Magnus Ramfelt
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Apr 21, 2017
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Planner vs To-Do

Microsoft just released To-Do, a task app that will eventually replace Wunderlist. When should we use Planner and when should we use To-Do? Thanks for the help.
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    Robert Drouhard
    Oct 08, 2018

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Bud Ratliff
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Dec 30, 2017

Hi Timo, 

 

Thanks for the update related to integrating Planner into To Do. 

Has that functionality yet been released? 

 

With thanks!
Bud

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Timo Yates
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Jan 10, 2018

Hey Bud,

 

Not yet. Both product teams are investigating some infrastructural changes that would enable a more straightforward and deeper integration down the line. We'll keep you posted.

 

Timo

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    JAVIER CUESTA MARISCAL
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    Mar 17, 2018

    Hi Timo,

     

    Can you imagine an additional integration of Planner and Outlook Calendar, at least one way? I mean, all the Planner tasks allocated to me and that have a deadline to be shown in a single calendar? the two-ways interaction may be streamlined if any "deadline" in this Planner calendar simply brings you to Planner landing site online, nothing complicated and it would be enough, they are for the Team/Group and just posted there, so why would we need to modify them from Outlook interface, right?

     

    The "Planner" calendar that I envisage would contain all tasks allocated to you that have a deadline across the different plans, in which you can select which plans to show/hide maybe. In fact, now I realized that could be properly called "Planner hub calendar" :) so plans you have NOW favourited in your Hub would show up, so then you can centralize the show/hide control in the planner app site rather than in Outlook Calendar.

     

    This would be a great way to avoid the clutter of Groups calendars (now we have one every time we set an MS  Team)  in "My calendars" folder. I don't use them since there are not so many appointments in one project/team to justify the display of an entire calendar, especially because these appointments already show up in my personal calendar when I'm invited to a meeting, so it makes sense that they are simply included there and not to show dozens of calendars (yes, I'm that busy!... X-) 

     

    Thanks for considering

    Javier

     

    PS: Desktop version of Planner soon please! either standing alone or integrated with the existing ToDo one! when you do this I will go for Windows 10 :) :)

    By the way, I'm missing so much to have the possibility of adding items to one specific task in TODO app, so that you can see the breakdown and have an easy way to distinguish between typical small task standing alone 15 min and Big tasks that contain such step by step or minor component like in Wunderlist 

    • Ashutosh Chavda's avatar
      Ashutosh Chavda
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      Apr 23, 2018

      how does Microsoft To-Do Steps work with Planner?

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      Timo Yates
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      Mar 22, 2018

      Hi Javier,

       

      I don't work on Planner so while I like your idea, I can't comment on whether or not something like that is planned or not :)

      What I can tell you is that we are already working on the subtask feature you mention below for breaking bigger tasks in To-Do down into smaller chunks and hope to release it very soon :)

       

      Cheers,

      Timo 

  • Rich Hearn's avatar
    Rich Hearn
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 23, 2018

    Hi Timo,

     

    We are really keen to know when this Planner and ToDo integration will be available.  Is there somewhere where we can vote for these roadmap functionality items?

     

    Thanks,
    Rich

     

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      Rich Hearn
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 10, 2018

      Hi

       

      Here is where you can vote for this integration between Outlook Tasks and Planner.

       

      https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/11037114-integration-with-outlook-tasks

       

      Rich

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