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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.