A new way to check off your to-dos—Tasks in Teams are coming soon!
At Microsoft Ignite this year? Then you’ll have already heard the big news about Microsoft To Do and Microsoft Teams. Missed the announcement? We’ve got you covered. Today, we announced that you’ll soon be able to see your tasks from Planner and To Do in Teams. That’s right, one of your most requested integrations is on its way! We’ll now bring in your personal tasks from To Do and your team tasks from Planner into a single, comprehensive view in Teams. This will be coming very soon for Teams Technology Adoption Program (TAP) IT admins and will become generally available for all Microsoft customers at the beginning of 2020.
Assign Task Reminders to Assigned Individuals
Currently, To-Do allows you to assign a new task to someone in your shared list. It is great! However, I notice that whenever I assign a task to someone I would have to contact them (via email or text, or phone call) to confirm they have completed the task. I think it would be a very nice feature to have the option to assign task reminders for workers or others to complete the task they are assigned instead of just being given the task. I understand that when a task is assigned you can manually input a reminder for yourself once assigned. However, more times than not, you often forget, therefore, when given a reminder from your boss or manager you are able to be reminded by the app. This would eliminate the need to have your boss remind you to complete the task.
Announcing: To Do is now rolling out to Outlook for Windows
We’re excited to announce that To Do is rolling out to Outlook for Windows for the Current Channel users (starting with Current Channel version 2207). With this release, you can use the To Do app right from Outlook for Windows to plan your work and commitments effectively and stay focused on the tasks at hand.Introducing the all-new 'My Day' view in 'Tasks by Planner and To Do' App for Microsoft Teams!
Feeling overwhelmed by tasks from multiple sources and struggling to stay organized? We have great news for you! We are thrilled to introduce the 'My Day' view in the 'Tasks by Planner and To Do' app for Microsoft Teams. This feature aims to help you effectively organize and prioritize your tasks, consolidate your task lists, and declutter your workspace.Shared tasks from Microsoft Teams for personal use are now in To Do
In today's digital world tasks are coming our way from many sources. And with that rapid integration with technology, we worry about missing any tasks that are important to us. Microsoft To Do is committed to providing a complete task management solution that keeps people at the center. We want to offer you a single pane of glass for all your tasks by aggregating all tasks that you care for. To fulfil our promise, we are now integrated with Microsoft Teams for your personal life. Yes, Microsoft Teams isn’t just for work anymore. Now you can connect with your family and friends outside of the office and make calls, chat, plan, and organize things in one place. Teams for personal use allows users to create group chats and once in a group chat, you can create a shared to-do list and assign tasks to others in the group. Users can create and assign tasks from Teams web, Desktop, and Mobile applications. Another endpoint to track tasks from? Well, To Do is here to help you! With this integration, all the tasks assigned to a user in Teams for personal use will now be visible to them under their 'Assigned to me’ list in To Do. And with this, everything that you are supposed to do from your Teams' shared lists is now aggregated in one place. No more fear of missing out! The Richness of To Do Once in To Do, you can apply some of the rich features of To Do on these tasks. You can mark them important, add sub-steps, add due dates, add to My Day while planning, or add notes to keep track of any information related to the task. To provide the users with more context, the task details in To Do specify the Teams shared list name as well. Is that all? Not really! Teams for personal use allows users to capture tasks from their messages in mobile devices. With a long press on the message, you can invoke the message extension menu and from there you can convert your message into a task and add it to either your personal To Do lists or shared lists. Isn't it amazing? With this feature you can capture and track tasks in your personal lists, or capture and assign them to either yourself or others in shared lists. And just like we mentioned above, anything assigned to you will again be present in the ’Assigned to me’ list in To Do. To link the assigned tasks back to the chat context, users can click on the deep link provided in the task details in To Do and jump to the message from where the task was created in Teams conversation. If you’re new to Teams, you can download the Teams app to get started today. And To Do, you can download it here. We can’t wait to hear how To Do is making task management easy for you - let us know in the comments below or over on Twitter and Facebook. You can also write to us at todofeedback@microsoft.com.
Planner tasks in To-Do - Folders organisation
Hello! I'm new to using both ToDo and Planner and I'm quite keen to use ToDo to manage all my actions from my own personal projects AND from team projects (based in Planner). When a Planner task is assigned to me, it appears in the "Assigned to you" list. Is there a way to move the tasks from the "Assigned to you" list into one of my own ToDo lists? For example: I have a list in ToDo called "Waiting for" - i.e. any tasks in which I'm waiting for someone else to complete an action before I can progress. In "Assigned to me" I have 16 tasks from 3 different project. Several of those tasks require someone else to do something before I can progress (e.g. I'm waiting for an external company to get back to me with a quote). I'd like to move those tasks to my "Waiting for" folder so that I can review as part of my weekly review. Is there any way to make something work here? Thanks, AK
Entire Task List Lost
Last week, I had been working most of the day, when my entire task list was suddenly lost. There is nothing. No completed tasks, no in progress, none of the recurring ones. Everything is gone, and this is going to really disrupt my work for... who knows how long. Is there any way to get them back?
Mention people in the comments of Tasks
How do you mention someone in the comments section of a task? I've seen other queries about this dating back to 2017, and in 2019 Microsoft said they are working on it... so has this been done? Example: My colleague and I have been assigned a task - to upload content onto the website. In the checklist it notes my colleague will write the content, and then I will upload it. I'm trying to tag her in my comment to say, "@ let me know when the copy is ready for me to upload." Is there actually no way to do this?
