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To-Do's To Do & Outlook's To-Do List
While I agree with your request, if you modify your workflow a bit you can get this - I drag emails to the navigation pane and release over the "Tasks" link. That will create a new task with the email contents attached. This has served me better than simply flagging an email.
A couple of items which I've found help quickly turn emails into tasks in MS To-Do are the use of the "Quick Steps" in outlook where you can set up a button to transform any email into a task. This is then available on the main outlook page and also when looking at any given email.
Secondly, you can easily use Microsoft Flow and easily create a flow that transforms any email that is flagged into a task. This then works in Outlook or Outlook online or also the mobile app when flagging emails, I tested them all.
Works well for me. Hope this helps.
That's something I will try. thank you.
The flow works perfectly but in the mobile app if the email is organized by thread, it flags all the email in that thread and multiple tasks are created. Any thoughts on how to deal with that?
Is that when you flag the latest email in the thread or an email part way through the thread? Apologies, when I tested that for me it seemed to work and I didn't get the duplicates so I'm not too sure.
- I am using the outlook app and I could not find out a way to flag just 1 email. The only option I get is to select the thread > from the ellipses choose 'Flag' and that flags every email in that thread.
