What’s Good About Microsoft Planner So Far (and What’s Still Missing)

After several months of using Microsoft Planner in Office 365 to manage tasks and collaborate on projects, I've put together my thoughts on what's good so far, and what's missing.

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Things on the roadmap that I'm looking forward to:

• Mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Assigning tasks to multiple people
• External guest access
• Templates

Things I couldn't find on the roadmap yet, but I would like to see:

• Better Outlook integration (there’s no connection between Planner tasks and Outlook tasks).
• Wrapping of long bucket names.
• Marking checklist items within a task should automatically mark the task as “In progress”.
• New tasks in a bucket should be added to the bottom of the list
• Sorting of My Tasks list by due date
• Notifications for tasks about to expire/expired
• Daily digest email of tasks due today/tomorrow/this week/this month
• Favorite plans not added to Outlook favorites automatically
• Multiple plans per Group
• Charts for plans showing per-bucket progress of items