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To Do App sort by category
I began using the To Do app just last week. Loved how it pulled all of my flagged emails and Planner tasks into one list. Up until 2 days ago I was able to sort by categories, which flowed over from Outlook. This was a fabulous simple one-click way to visually organize my list by project. That option has now disappeared. Sure I can manually move tasks or add them to custom lists, but I have already done that in Outlook folders, and it would be tedious redundant work. The beauty of the to list was to not have to flip through multiple folders or lists. Please bring back sort by categories in To Do.
- Same here, does anybody know what happened? Thanks
- Ditto. Please bring it back Microsoft.
- Yeah, this is really annoying. I moved all my items from folders to categories and then the option to group by them was removed! Any idea why it was introduced and then taken away within a few weeks?
bridgettef I'm having the same issue. I would like to see this back. It is how I sorted my daily priorities.
bridgettef Next problem is, category can be add and is vissible only on browser version. On mobile apps it not show.
Duchic Yes you can absolutely add categories. My concern is the functionality to sort by category was removed.
Just seeing this and I figured it out...
In Settings enable the "All" Smart List.
For that list select Group at the top right and select Categories
My "All" list is now Grouped and Sorted by the categories setup in Tasks.
My "My Day" is also grouped by category.
The grouping is persistent when I click away and return.
Good Luck,
Ben
- YES, PLEASE! David Allen (GTD - Getting Things Done) suggested (many years ago) using categories in Outlook to implement his techniques. It worked great. I really liked that you could select multiple categories for an task - which allowed you to add a task to both your "errand" list and your "@lunch" list, for example. Even if you spent the time converting categories to folders, it would NOT allow you to put a task in multiple folders. I don't understand why Microsoft continuously removes great functionality from their products. Every new generation of their software loses useful functionality. Are they trying to piss off their loyal (old) users?
