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Planner vs To-Do
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While Planner = Group; To-Do = Personal. Believe it or not, Group planning involves people, and their contribution to the group becomes a personal task. Which I'd like to have show up in Outlook Tasks and my To-Do app.
We solved it by each having a personal Planner-plan. That way everything collates in your Planner-hub.
Do you see any drawbacks with such a way-of-working?
How does that solve the actions that you need to track against emails and in your personal calendar in Outlook?
Tasks created in OneNote go to Outlook and not To-Do? So Planner is great, but will be better when linked to Outlook/ToDo tasks for personal task tracking too.
It doesn't, at least not 100%
But my work is very little in the way that I can solve it by myself, almost everything needs to involve other functions, so either I can reply/solve a mail-query directly, or I need to specify it better than Outlook allows anyway, so I ctrl+c ctrl+v the necessary parts to Planner, add my own definitions and so on.
I do use the flags in Outlook as to be able to postpone smaller tasks to the near future, but anything demanding is moved into planner, no mather if it's for myself or for a project.
Thank you for the suggestion. That is a good approach however I am wanting to use To-Do because it works PERFECTLY with David Allen's "Getting Things Done" method. If I could pull the next actions from Planner as my project listing and organizer into the appropriate list in To-Do I am golden. Also really like the ease of use of Microsoft To-Do. Found something interesting that even the Microsoft team hasn't mentioned anywhere in this forum. Here is a link to a demo that shows plans to integrate the two and it is perfect! The entire video has some good content but if you go to 33:33 they explain integration between Planner and To-Do with new code just for demo but meant to show what is coming. Not sure why this link isn't clickable but if you copy and paste is will work. This is EXACTLY what I need for "Getting Things Done" I can pick and choose from My Tasks in Planner what I want to do today with my other personal tasks for the day.
https://youtu.be/DKsyIj4vYwM
Please Microsoft!! This is perfect - simple and useful.
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I'm pretty sure that when you create a Plan in Planner, it also creates an Office 365 group to go along with it since they are meant to be used by multiple people. If you have each person create their own plan, you just going to end up with tons of Groups that don't serve any real purpose.
True. But comparing trying to make people having two different places to go for their tasks, that's minor. Since we get one group for each project the list is quite substansiall anyway, everybody just works from their list of Favorites.
- It is the grouping of the tasks that I like in To-Do. I believe in Planner it is one large list of My Tasks.
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