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Alexa and To Do not syncing
We use the Alexa shopping list and sync it to MS To Do. It has been working great, but just stopped. Looking for the the Wonder Do It skill seems to be 'gone'? Anybody else do this? Having problems...
I just noticed I have the same issue. I was using the Wonder Do It skill. I found somewhere online that the I you can download the skill called Tasks in Hand instead. I tried this but it’s not working, I think because I have an office 365 business account and not a personal account. Let me know if any of you make any headway
This is so frustrating. Alexa integration was I think the most requested feature on the ToDo feedback hub, and Microsoft closed it, saying the feature was "added" because it already exists via the Cortana integration. I've been a Microsoft fan-boy for most of my life, but this is the final straw. I'm moving to Todoist.
DragonKing87 If you follow this discussion you will find that we have solved this issue with the alexa skill "Tasks in hand". It performs as we need it to.
We can add to our to-do lists, our shopping lists, and also remove items from both.
Add the skill and then reset both Microsoft to do and also Alexa apps.
- I have 22 lists in MS ToDo. No way can I narrow that down to two lists. "Tasks in hand" is not a solution for me.
- I'm not saying that you have to narrow it down to 2 lists. I created over 15 lists using Wunderlist and these apparently hand been transported over to MS TODO when I made my initial conversion from Wunderlist. Since I added the updated skill "Tasks in hand" all of these list names were created automatically in Alexa groups of lists although they appear empty in Alexa. I can however add or delete to and from the MSTD lists from Alexa now.
If I want a new list I tell Alexa to add something to that new list and if doesn't exist she tells me and asks if I want to create it.
It is not perfect as I would have liked to have all my items imported back into Alexa's lists. I'm retired now and don't have the brainpower to rewrite these things myself like I used to.
I notice a slight delay in adding between the lists which on my desktop I can improve by a keyboard shortcut to refresh the list.
