It’s time to liberate yourself from coordination chaos. Time to clear your brain space and get organized. In short, it’s time to try the Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview.
Today we’re introducing Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview, a lightweight version of the Microsoft Lists app designed for small business and individual use in conjunction with your Microsoft account (MSA).
Track what matters | Learn more and get started at lists.live.com (sign in with your MSA).
We would love for you to participate. Start by creating and sharing lists with your work colleagues, partners, your soccer team, or your neighborhood volunteer groups. We’ve designed the app off the core of Microsoft Lists, plus introduce new experiences like tabbed views, sharing from within a Person column, add images inline, and more. We’re excited to see what sorts of information tracking goodness you create during preview, and how you share it all – and it all starts at the new top-level URL entry point: lists.live.com.
The Microsoft List - MSA Preview is available online only and limited to 200,000 Microsoft accounts (MSA) to try at no cost on a first-come, first-served basis. *
Give it a try and let us know what you think. Don’t be shy. There’s in-product Feedback to let us know what you like, where things could improve, and any feature suggestions you have for Microsoft. We review it all.
Create a list and make it your own. Customize all aspects of your list - as shown above in Grid view edit mode. Note the new tabbed approach to all available list views.
Use case suggestions for Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview
Put your business and individual productivity into hyperdrive. Store all your information related to events, clubs, gifts, applications, vacation planning, and more. Keep track of it all in one place.
Use Lists to manage:
- Job applications.
- Employee onboarding
- House or apartment hunting.
- Charitable donations.
- College applications.
- Internal events.
- Recipes and menus.
- Gift lists.
- Monthly book clubs.
- Vacation planning.
- Collections such as wine or art.
- Home and auto maintenance.
Visualize your lists using customizable views, like Grid, Gallery, and Calendar (as shown above).
Microsoft Lists adds value no matter the size of your team
- Stay organized: You’ll know who’s doing what, what’s been done, and when things change. Keep everything tracked in one app so everyone on your team—that might be your business team or family team—can easily check status, find details, files, dates, and more.
- Work your way: When you check information, visualize it in your own way: sort, filter, format, rearrange columns, add and adjust views – customize to your heart’s content.
- Share and collaborate: Lists and lists items are easy to share with others with view or edit permissions intact. Add people, track updates, make progress – all within the same list at the same time.
- Track progress from anywhere: For some people, work happens in a building; for others, it happens on a soccer field or at home. With Lists, anyone on the team can access list information anywhere from the web.
- Maintain privacy: We take privacy seriously. Microsoft does not scan the contents of your lists. We make it easy to understand and control via your privacy dashboard.
Use Gallery view to visualize list items as adjustable cards – especially when using Image columns.
Ready to start? Here’s a few FAQs and helpful links
Time for some FYIs before you sign up, with additional information and frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the new Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview page.
*Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview is available worldwide at no cost. The preview is limited to the first 200,000 people who begin using it and requires an Internet connection. To get started, visit lists.live.com and login with your Microsoft account. If you don’t already have a Microsoft account, it’s free and easy to create one (learn more and create a Microsoft account today).
Not all features are available during preview and subject to change. By using Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview you are agreeing to this license agreement. Note: This preview is not yet accessible on the Microsoft Lists for iOS or Android mobile apps, or from within Microsoft Teams personal or Microsoft Teams essentials. During preview, you can try up to 50 lists, with up to 2,000 items/list. There, too, is a 200MB limit for files, video, and image storage per list.
If you’re planning to use Microsoft Lists with a business account and personal Microsoft account (this preview), you’ll need to switch between accounts to see each set of lists – switching between your Microsoft account and your Microsoft 365 org ID. Learn more about existing Microsoft Lists commercial value and scenarios within Microsoft 365 business plans.
Podcast, demo video, and a sample list to help get to know the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview
1) Listen to the latest episode of The Intrazone, "Lists for everyone" -- Join Miceile Barrett and Ben-Truelove from the Lists product team chatting about key product insights and design for the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview:
2) Here's a 20-minute demo video tour to help kickstart both how to get into the preview and to help visualize what you can try once you sign up and sign in (at no cost):
3) And last, see it in action. We created a public, view-only resources list meta example using the MSA Preview from Mark's personal Microsoft account: Lists resources. You'll find it a great showcase of a common use case - tracking content for a product launch. This list uses the "Content scheduler" template, has a little bit of JSON for the Date column (thanks to Tetsuya Kawahara's "date-page-a-day-calendar" PnP sample), and has three tabbed views for All, Published, and Scheduled items. Let me/us know what you think. And if you create your own and wish to share, @mention us: @SharePoint, @MKashman, and @MSFTMiceile.
Live sample list from Mark's personal Microsoft account: "Lists resources" - created and shared from the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview.
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Can’t wait to hear what you think. Let us know in the comments below, on social @Microsoft365 - @mention us - we’re all eyes and ears.
Provide feedback to Microsoft from within the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview.
Make a list and check it twice, once “for work” and once “for life.”
- Miceile Barrett and Mark Kashman – Senior product managers at Microsoft
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