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Syncing categories from Outlook to To-Do
Thank You so much for your valuable suggestion! User feedback and suggestions are really important to us as we work to improve Microsoft To-Do.
The Categories syncing from outlook to Microsoft To-Do is a really good idea and we will consider adding it in a future update.
In the meantime, we encourage all our users to post their ideas for future features and up-vote similar suggestions on "Microsoft To-Do User Voice" -
This idea has already been posted by another user, so I would suggest that you vote for it below so that our development and management team will take this idea into consideration .
https://todo.uservoice.com/forums/597175-feature-suggestions/suggestions/18982771-use-outlook-categories
We base our choices for future features on what our users most request, so you should add your ideas, comments, and votes!
Thank you for your patience as we work on this and many other improvements to Microsoft To-Do!
Best Regards,
Kiran Teja
Kiran Thalakokkula I use GTD Methodology to organize my tasks by categories in Outlook and would love to see Categories synced with To-Do App. The only App on iPhone supporting Category Sync now is Task-Task or Task&Notes on Android. Such a shame To-Do doesn't support it yet!!!
guran99
I use hashtags # in subject lines in Outlook to tag an email since those are searchable in To Do. So for example if I am waiting for a reply on an email, when I send the email out I add #wf to the subject line, set the follow up flag (so it will go to To Do) and save a copy in @waitingfor folder in Outlook. (I have rules that automatically set the flag and move an email to @waitingFor if it sees #wf in the subject line).
Because that email is flagged it will show up in the Flagged Email list in To Do. Now that it is in To Do I can search for it by searching for the tag #wf and it will show up and I can move the 'task' to whatever list I want. (Here is video I put together on To Do integration since people were asking - hope that helps... https://youtu.be/r0jK54jLwFw )