As an advocate for the Microsoft ToDo and Wunderlist apps, I am anxious to see what is coming next. I recognize that the first version of ToDo is the start. There are a few things that will definitely take it for a good app to a great one. I am sure those features are on the horizon. Can't wait to see them and start using them!Especially things like subtasks, percentage complete, prioritization, sharing/collaborating, Cortana integration, and pen notes.

Hey Neal, Sorry that we've been a little quiet. You can keep up-to-date with what's planned over on our UserVoice here—https://todo.uservoice.com/forums/597175-feature-suggestions. At the moment we're working on getting iPad and Mac apps available as well as bringing in subtasks and sharing. Many of the other features you request are also on our backlog but we can't give any timeframes for them just yet.

Not at the moment Salvatore, it is something that we're discussing. The idea behind My Day is not to overwhelm people though. You should only see the to-dos that you are actually going to focus on today. By automatically bringing in overdue to-dos that you don't plan to work on there's the potential to create distractions and lose focus. You can find all your overdue to-dos in Suggestions, however.

You can sort items by overdue, or by due date, within any list. This will allow you to see what is over due and then choose only the items you want to complete today and add those to "My Day". To me this is better than having them automatically added to my day, given that you may actually not be completing them today.

I fully share the opinion of Neal Rowland: Microsoft To-Do needs many additional functions to be implemented. If there is a task reminder, I can only decide to have me reminded later (probably 5 minutes) or I mark the task as completed. This is absolutely not satisfactory. If I need to be reminded 2 hours later, I would have to push the button 24 times... This is crazy. Why not simply add the ordinary windows choices for reminders?As Neal put it: adding subtasks with percentages would really be an asset. I would also need the possibility to unmark a whole list of completed tasks for repetitive actions, like for exemple a travel abroad where I have to take care for the same range of actions. The surface is nice, but the functions still extremely limited.

Hi Erwin, thanks for the feedback. You're right notification delays aren't perfect right now and we'll certainly be looking at them. We don't have one button for uncompleting tasks but on desktop you can select all your to-dos by clicking the first, holding down shift, clicking the last to-do and then choosing Mark as not completed in the context menu (right-click).

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Dave Norton
Brass Contributor
Dec 30, 2017
I am testing Todoist, heads and shoulders above MS To Do, subtasks and many more features. Only issue is good integration with Outlook 2016
Rory Grant
Copper Contributor
Oct 29, 2017
NOOOO!!!

If Microsoft is going to do that, then they need to hide all those features under an "Advanced" view, or something similar.

Question: Why do so few people use Outlook Tasks despite it being around for over a decade??
Answer: Its not simple to use.

Learn from Apple and Google, and design for dummies. Otherwise... no one will use it.
Jonathan Thompson
Copper Contributor
Aug 31, 2017
I am anxoius as well only because I have used Wunderlist for 5 years and rely on it heavily. I use it at leace once every 1-2 hours I am awake. I checked out Microsoft's "To-Do" web app today. It is really light on functionality. I am looking forward to a more robust rollout so I can play and test it more.
- Polly Davidson
  Microsoft
  Sep 12, 2017
  Thanks for your feedback Jonathan, are there any particular features that you'd like to see?
  - Jonathan Thompson
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 09, 2017
    I want to see more features in general - nothing specific. I checked it out and it felt very light. It did not have enough features for me to convert early from Wunderlist to To-Do. I would like to convert as soon as possible so I am ahead of the closing of Wunderlist but I need basic Wunderlist featrures in To-Do such as sublists and list sharing, also folders.
RajKrish
Brass Contributor
Aug 29, 2017
To-Do still shows as "Preview". When will this become GA?
- Polly Davidson
  Microsoft
  Sep 12, 2017
  Hey Raj, you're right, it is still in Preview. We can't give you a timeframe yet but we're working hard on GA.
Polly Davidson
Microsoft
Aug 29, 2017
Hey Neal, Sorry that we've been a little quiet. You can keep up-to-date with what's planned over on our UserVoice here—https://todo.uservoice.com/forums/597175-feature-suggestions. At the moment we're working on getting iPad and Mac apps available as well as bringing in subtasks and sharing. Many of the other features you request are also on our backlog but we can't give any timeframes for them just yet.
- Rory Grant
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 29, 2017
  PLEASE keep it simple.
  
  Simple
  Simple
  Simple.
  
  At all costs, keep it simple.
- Neal Rowland
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 29, 2017
  No problem. I am certain you are working on them. Glad to see all the items planned for release. Just excited and anxious to see them finished and live :)
Erwin Ebermann
Copper Contributor
Aug 29, 2017
I fully share the opinion of Neal Rowland: Microsoft To-Do needs many additional functions to be implemented. If there is a task reminder, I can only decide to have me reminded later (probably 5 minutes) or I mark the task as completed. This is absolutely not satisfactory. If I need to be reminded 2 hours later, I would have to push the button 24 times... This is crazy. Why not simply add the ordinary windows choices for reminders?
As Neal put it: adding subtasks with percentages would really be an asset. I would also need the possibility to unmark a whole list of completed tasks for repetitive actions, like for exemple a travel abroad where I have to take care for the same range of actions.
The surface is nice, but the functions still extremely limited.
- Dave Norton
  Brass Contributor
  Dec 30, 2017
  Erwin Ebermann wrote:
  
  I fully share the opinion of Neal Rowland: Microsoft To-Do needs many additional functions to be implemented. If there is a task reminder, I can only decide to have me reminded later (probably 5 minutes) or I mark the task as completed. This is absolutely not satisfactory. If I need to be reminded 2 hours later, I would have to push the button 24 times... This is crazy. Why not simply add the ordinary windows choices for reminders?
  
  As Neal put it: adding subtasks with percentages would really be an asset. I would also need the possibility to unmark a whole list of completed tasks for repetitive actions, like for exemple a travel abroad where I have to take care for the same range of actions.
  
  The surface is nice, but the functions still extremely limited.
  
  Be nice if they could implement same features as Wunderlist, I am testing Todoist, it has sub tasks, hope Microsoft does not buy todoist then shelve it like Wunderlist( why did Azure team not have porting tools from AWS), shame!!
- Polly Davidson
  Microsoft
  Aug 29, 2017
  Hi Erwin, thanks for the feedback. You're right notification delays aren't perfect right now and we'll certainly be looking at them. We don't have one button for uncompleting tasks but on desktop you can select all your to-dos by clicking the first, holding down shift, clicking the last to-do and then choosing Mark as not completed in the context menu (right-click).
  - ta_pb
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 31, 2017
    Great tip. I didn't know you could do the shift select.

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