To Do App sort by category

[bridgettef]

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. 

[#2]

Same here, does anybody know what happened? Thanks

[#3]

Ditto. Please bring it back Microsoft.

[#4]

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?

[#5]

@bridgettef I'm having the same issue. I would like to see this back. It is how I sorted my daily priorities.

[#6]

@bridgettef Next problem is, category can be add and is vissible only on browser version. On mobile apps it not show.

[#7]

@Duchic Yes you can absolutely add categories. My concern is the functionality to sort by category was removed. 

[#8]

@bridgettef 

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

[#9]

Thank you @badair 

That did work!

Bridgette

[#10]

@badair Hi, your solution looked promising, but when I click on the ... in the top right corner on my 'All' list, I don't have a 'Group' option. I only have 'Edit', 'Sort', 'Change Theme', 'Print List' and 'Send a Copy' as list options. 

[#11]

@sandraprojectdbe 

dang...  

Here is what i see in my version.

I am not accessing this thru a "..." menu.

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"All" enabled in Settings - 

[#12]

@badair We're probably comparing different apps.

On my laptop (Windows 10), To Do in desktop Outlook (not the new version) it's OK:

On my phone (IOS 17.1.1), To Do app (updated today): no option to group

The 'All' list is enabled in both apps as you can see, no issues there.

Regards,

Sandra

[#13]

I agree. I use the MAC web version and the Apple iPhone app version. The mobile version on Apple does not display categories and it is not an option. I hope Microsoft updates this feature. It's really helpful!

[#14]

@GigiBee I totally switched to Microsoft web apps for Outlook and ToDo for this reason. Categories work seemless and has even faster sync between Outlook and ToDo. Sadly no categories avalible on iOS yet 😞

[#15]

@sandraprojectdbe Yes this is the problem. Categories are available only on web app. On desktop, android, ios... is not avaliable for long time. It's frustrating and I don't understand it why Microsoft do this.

[#16]

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?

[#17]

Doesn't work for me. I installed MS To-Do phone app for Android version 2.114.690.00 build #334. "Categories" is NOT a grouping option. "Categories" IS an option on Outlook.com for Windows, but it doesn't work - it shows the Categories but does not group by them.

[#18]

I am running the Microsoft ToDo App on several platforms. On my iPhone, iPad and Android Tablets, I can group the Planned-Task Viwed by categories - which is an extremely helpful feature. However, I can not do the same on the Windows App (2.114.7122.0), nor on the Windows online version. Neither can I find a way to update my Windows App. This really blows my mind, and I would really appreciate to know why this is so, and how I can fix it.