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Introducing Steps in Microsoft To-Do
With Microsoft To-Do we wanted a fresh start to explore the positives of productivity. We were especially inspired by the sense of accomplishment that comes from completing your most important to-dos every day. Microsoft To-Do’s My Day frees you from the anxiety that accompanies an ever-growing to-do lists by resetting each morning so that you can prioritize your to-dos each day.
We love hearing how our customers use My Day to complete more of their to-dos each day. We’ve also heard your requests. Thanks to your feedback, we know that productivity doesn’t rest solely on a morning ritual of planning your day or end once you’ve completed your regular daily to-dos. Accomplishing larger goals requires effective tools to break those giant tasks down into more manageable bite-sized chunks.
With that in mind, we’re very happy to introduce you to Steps. Steps allows you to break any to-do down in to smaller pieces. No matter how monumental your to-do may be, you can tackle it easily, step by step.
Break your larger to-dos down in to your next steps.
We’ve found that the best strategy to accomplish larger goals is to create simple, specific and actionable steps. If you’re working through your list and come to a to-do that you simply can’t complete immediately, it’s the perfect opportunity to pause and evaluate your next steps. Thanks to this moment of reflection, prep for presentation becomes update PowerPoint with slides from analytics, review last month's meeting notes and share outline & agenda, all of which are clearly defined and achievable.
As you complete each Step of your goal, we’ll help keep track of your progress. Beneath your to-do’s name we’ll show you just how many Steps it contains and how many you’ve completed so far. You’ll always be able to see exactly how far you’ve come directly from your list. The number of Steps left to reach your goal is always visible, helping keep you on track, accountable and in control.
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Yes, I like the steps feature..
Can we have reminder and due date for steps too?
- I am converting from Wunderlist, so the To-Do app is where I want to focus, can I stop syncing to outlook altogether? The outlook tasks is clunky and the reminders are redundant if I'm using the To-Do App.
Hi Kurt Lane, the sync with Outlook Tasks is automatic, so it's unfortunately not possible to turn it off. It is possible, however, to use Microsoft To-Do with a different Microsoft account than the one you're using with Outlook. That way your to-dos won't sync to Tasks and you can avoid reminder redundancy.
Honestly, I feel like I would want all of my Microsoft 365 tools logged into my work account, but i'm going to be received duplicate reminders from Outlook, which I do not like.
Given that Microsoft To-Do Tasks correspond to Outlook Tasks, I am curious to know how I can see in Outlook the steps related to a Task.
Is it possible?
- Another very good reason for sync of 'Next step' from TO DO to Outlook Tasks is that you can only download your TO DO from Outlook Tasks. This download provides me with a vital monitoring and reporting function. Losing the 'Next step' from that report omits important detail.
There seems to be some suggestion that 'Next step' does sync with Outlook desktop, but I can't see it doing it in my Outlook desktop version.
I woudl welcome guidance. Thank you, Donna I have the same question. Using steps in ToDo but how are they displayed (if at all) in Microsoft Tasks?
Hi Stephen Hancock and Salvatore Biscari, Steps unfortunately aren't synced to Outlook Tasks. I can see how that would be really helpful, though. While syncing Steps to Outlook Tasks isn't currently planned, I want you to know that deepening our Outlook integration is on the list. Stay tuned 😊
