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Whatʹs Great
1. Capture tasks from different Microsoft apps and services and sync them with Microsoft To Do, from flagging emails as tasks in Outlook to lists from Cortana.
2. Microsoft To Do helps you quickly capture and retrieve your lists and tasks across devices.
3. Your tasks and lists are hosted securely on the Microsoft 365 service.
Latest Version: 2.84
Licence: Free
Download for MacOS - server 1 --> FreePros |
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- Love the simplicity of the app - Excellent app for free - User-friendly - Latest and greatest updates - Works well with iOS shortcuts - Shared running list of tasks - Available on all platforms |
- Lack of customization options - No interface change or customizing abilities - No ability to change from dark mode to light mode without changing phone/laptop's entire color mode - Search tool no longer pulls up list titles - No comment feature |
What does Microsoft To Do do? Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with Microsoft To Do. Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, set reminders and more to improve your productivity and focus on what matters. Microsoft To Do is the task management app that makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life. Accomplish what’s important to you each day with My Day and Suggestions, personalized day planner tools. Daily tasks are simple with To Do, from grocery lists to housecleaning routines. Intelligent suggestions recommend tasks from across your lists that may be relevant each day. Microsoft To Do helps you quickly capture and retrieve your lists and tasks across devices. Sync reminders and tasks with Microsoft 365 to access them anywhere. Capture tasks from different Microsoft apps and services and sync them with Microsoft To Do, from flagging emails as tasks in Outlook to lists from Cortana. Your tasks and lists are hosted securely on the Microsoft 365 service. Make your lists unique with customizable features like emoji, colorful themes, dark mode and more. Stay connected and collaborate with friends and family by sharing lists to coordinate. Microsoft To Do Features: Daily Planner • Stay focused with My Day, a personalized daily planner with suggested tasks • Get your lists anywhere, on any device • Add notes to any task Task Manager • Share lists and tasks with your friends, family, colleagues, and classmates • Create color-coded lists • Set one-time or recurring due dates and reminders • Break your tasks into manageable steps • Attach files up to 25 MB to any task To Do Lists for Any Purpose • Bill planner • Shopping lists • Set reminders • Task management • Business calendar • Note taking • And more Microsoft 365 Integration • Sync your tasks between Outlook and To Do • Host lists and tasks with the reliability and security of Microsoft 365 • Compile tasks from across your Microsoft 365 apps and services Whether it's for work, school, or home, To Do helps you organize and simplify your plans. To Do is free and available on all your devices. Learn more: https://to-do.microsoft.com Follow us on Twitter: @MicrosoftToDo Have an idea or feature suggestion? https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2171952 Need support? https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156547 By installing Microsoft To Do, you agree to the Microsoft Terms of Use: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=842575
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Download for PC - server 1 -->Intel, 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later.
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Good app, and free to boot
I should probably give this app five stars, just because it is pretty good, and it is completely free, but I feel like a little constructive criticism can help to improve the app, so I'll leave 1 empty star as a stretch goal for the developer. I have been using this app for 6-7 years, and I used Wunderlist before that for several years (which was aquired by Microsoft and replaced with this app, I believe). In all of that time, this app has always had bugs, but those bugs have usually been minor annoyances, and they do seem to eventually get fixed. The current batch of bugs that I have noticed is the following: 1. When adding items to "My Day", eventually I can't add anymore without leaving the "My Day" screen and coming back. Sometimes this is as few as four or five items. 2. If you click on an item in the My Day screen when the side bar is open to pick more items to add to My Day, the details for the item are displayed behind the My Day items, so it seems like clicking on an item doesn't work. This is more of a usability problem, which could be solved by dismissing the My Day items when the user taps on a item to see the item details. That way the details wouldn't be obscured. There was a bug where tasks with steps that had been created on iOS wouldn't show all of the tasks when viewed on Windows. That bug seems to have been fixed, so great job!
Love, BUT UPDATES PLS
I love the simplicity of the app, BUT I do wish there was a little more customization options, such as font options and font size for menu and list items. I don't think the app needs a major overhaul, but I think a small couple of customization tweaks would be wonderful! I love having the app for FREE - for its functionality and user-friendliness, this is an excellent app. It's been a while since I've seen any updates re: interface change or customizing abilities, so I would like to see it updated and more options and colors for list backgrounds (perhaps one's own photos or something). I would also love the ability to change from dark mode to light mode without needing to change my phone/laptop's entire color mode, so to speak. GREAT JOB though, this is highly recommended for the user that doesn't wish to have 10 million bells and whistles, but just enough to make functionality worth while! I searched around for new apps for to-do's and even paid for some others... ended up deleting them all and coming back to this one!
Great App for GTD Method
Best app I have found for use with the GTD method. I originally used Wunderlist and it was great. But this one is getting the latest and greatest updates that allow it to work much better with ios shortcuts so you can program your iphone so that you can add a task to a specific list by voice on the go without even looking at your phone. If you do GTD, you know that getting ideas out of your head and into the right list is key and to be able to do that while driving or as your walking to a meeting is a real improvement. Also, every one of my direct reports uses it (because I asked them to) and that allows them and me to have a shared running list of tasks that I have delegated to them that we can keep tabs on, share comments with each other, etc. And since it's all in To Do, that means that I can take tasks that were on my lists and simply drag and drop them into their list whenever I choose to delegate one of those tasks.
A shabby substitute for Wunderlist
I've been using Wumderlist for years and have absolutely loved that product. So, while I'm happy for the team that they were aquired by Microsoft, I am really frustrated with the feature set of MS To Do as compared to Wunderlist. For example, Wunderlist let you type in a task with a bulit in reminder. (e.g. Set up a call with client x at 11:00am) and it would show the task as "Set up call with Client X" with a reminder attatched to that task which would trigger at your specified time. With MS To Do you it will ignore any time parameters you input as text. You have to go into a separate screen and set up a reminder manually. That's stupidly inefficient for an efficiency-focussed app. MS task also doesn't seem to remove completed items like wonderlist did, so your lists become cluttered and hard to parse. And, the reminders, when they are set, often get stuck in a recursive loop and cannot be dismissed without force quitting the app. Initially I thought MS bought Wunderlist to invest in it and make it better. But it's clear, they just wanted to kill a great little competetor to release their own garbage version. I am so disappointed. Clearly I need to find something else. RIP Wunderlist. You were truly a great little product and I miss you terribly.
Quite useful
I really enjoy using the To Do app, the My Day feature has been great and I'm the kind that tries every single todo app I've ever run across, uses it for a couple of weeks, and moves on. The only app I've always come back to is a checklist in Microsoft OneNote, but Microsot To Do is the only app in the last few years that I've come back to and used heavily for months, for work, across iOS and PC. Just the right combination of features, though I would love if it allowed for multiple accounts (two work and one personal, ideally) so I could use it for personal tasks as well, instead of needing to use Todoist for personal (especially as they're missing the My Day feature). I have a few issues such as the date/time selector if not one of the defaults is clunky, and not everything is always 100% the way I want it, but it's worked pretty darn well for a while now!