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Magnus Ramfelt
Iron Contributor
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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  • Brent Ellis's avatar
    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Simple answer right now, Planner = Group Tool, To-Do = Individual personal tool
    • Rich Hearn's avatar
      Rich Hearn
      Copper Contributor

      I've generally found that teams are more effective when the tasks an individual takes on in their project work are easily referred to in their personal task list.  Having to check more than one place for priority tasks (and for maintaining progress updates) lowers productivity.

    • Magnus Ramfelt's avatar
      Magnus Ramfelt
      Iron Contributor
      Yeah agree. But Planner is nowhere close to doing what we want (well it's pretty close but our trial users thought it missed a couple of key features) so if you can just convert an email to a To-Do, share that To-Do and have importable templates, I think To-Dos will do ☺

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