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Planner vs To-Do
- Oct 08, 2018
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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
how does Microsoft To-Do Steps work with Planner?