Published by Microsoft Corporation on 2024-09-17
Microsoft To Do Overview
What is Microsoft To Do? Microsoft To Do is a task management app that helps users stay organized and manage their daily tasks. It offers features such as personalized daily planner tools, customizable lists, reminders, and the ability to sync tasks across devices and Microsoft 365 apps. Users can create lists for various purposes, including shopping, note-taking, and task management. Microsoft To Do is free and available on all devices. It also offers integration with other Microsoft apps and services.
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.
4. Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, set reminders and more to improve your productivity and focus on what matters.
5. Intelligent suggestions recommend tasks from across your lists that may be relevant each day.
6. Microsoft To Do is the task management app that makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life.
7. Daily tasks are simple with To Do, from grocery lists to housecleaning routines.
8. Sync reminders and tasks with Microsoft 365 to access them anywhere.
9. Stay connected and collaborate with friends and family by sharing lists to coordinate.
10. Make your lists unique with customizable features like emoji, colorful themes, dark mode and more.
11. Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with Microsoft To Do.
Download and Install Microsoft To Do - PC
Download for PC - server 1 -->Intel, 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later.
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MyDay a pain, can't print,
The last time I opened Wunderlist it told me to import my tasks to To Do. I decided to try it because Microsoft has been threatening to eliminate Wunderlist. First, there is no today smart list, replaced by MyDay. MyDay empties itself each midnight which means you have to add tasks again each morning (can't do it the night before), even tasks that are to be repeated daily. It lists suggested tasks in groups, including some today tasks listed as "later". If you have forgotten to check a task as add to MyDay it won't even appear in suggested. The whole approach is totally frustrating. Second, completed tasks only appear in each list which is a time waster for clearing them. Third, you cannot print lists, only export them through some confusing process that results in an mbox and may take up to 4 days to complete. I'm guessing it includes all email as well. I'm back to using Wunderlist and unless they make major changes I will never be using To Do
Good but could be better
Overall a good task management app but there are a few things that would improve it. - Being able create a custom report of tasks, something that can be printed or saved as a PDF. For example, all tasks completed in the last seven days in the Engineering Documentation List. - Tags. Being able to tag a task will help in searching through tasks and make for better organization of tasks. - Change "Important" tasks to be different levels of priority, Low and High for example. This could help to differentiate what needs to be done today, what would be nice to accomplish today and what can be moved to tomorrow if not completed. Low priority tasks have their Due Date automatically changed to the next day at midnight.
Meh
Was hoping for an upgrade from Wunderlist, but it's more of a "sidegrade". ** PROS: My Day sort of cool. Still being updated. Adding features all the time over past couple of years. ** CONS: No more today view broken down by group. Search is just as buggy and shows more detailed results, which makes it harder to process. Can't drag images to tasks anymore. Sharing doesn't always behave consistently. App on Windows buggy (crashes, loses data, etc.) ** MEH: still no ability to bulk change date on iOS. My day is haphazard in how it presents data and random in what you can do (can edit in detail by double-clicking, but can't right-click to change date). Date options still limited. ** CONCLUSION: I wish I stayed with Wunderlist until it stopped working. Was more stable and mature.
Thoughts
Overall I like the app. But for a long time, I have been wanting something that melds, some scheduling elements with tasks. They most seem like the same thing to me. So I would like to see a better way to add notes and additional details to tasks. I would like to see tasks not closed and scheduled for today, and events that were not closed on previous days automatically get moved to MyDay. With the first item in mind a better notification system would also be great and maybe personal gantt chart to track overall progress and conflicts. Maybe at some point a AI feature that would start indicating when the day was already full based on past complete times.
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!
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