TODAY SIDEBAR The Today bar shows your tasks for the day, as well as recently added items. It also integrates with Microsoft’s personal assistant, Cortana, so you can add new tasks quickly and easily using your voice.
MICROSOFT TODO REVIEW 2019 ANDROID
Recently updated to look and behave more like Wunderlist, Microsoft To Do is available for all the most popular platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and the web. Microsoft recently updated its To Do task- management tool with a fresh new look and extra features. Open a list, click the person icon in the top right, then create an invitation link that you can send to people Manage your life with Microsoft To Do | 20 mins You can invite others to share your lists.
Ideally, To Do could link directly with Alexa’s shopping list – as its rival Todoist can, making it much easier to add tasks. Microsoft is working on an Alexa add-on (or ‘skill’ as Amazon calls it) that lets you do this via Cortana, but this will involve saying “Alexa, open Cortana” before providing details of what you want to add. I’m often found barking orders at my Amazon Echo smart speaker, and would love to use it to quickly add new tasks to To Do. Last year, Wunderlist’s creator, Christian Reber, publically – and somewhat cheekily – asked Microsoft to let him buy back his old service instead of shutting it down (see his tweet at His plea went unanswered.įor now, I’m happy using To Do, but if Microsoft fails to cherish and improve it, I may look elsewhere. though, and while To Do has worked fine so far, I don’t yet fully trust it not to lose my tasks. I’ve set it to display as large as possible (right- click the tile, Resize, then Large), which means it flips over to reveal the day’s tasks whenever I click Start.
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I usually have no time for live tiles on my Windows Start menu, but the To Do tile is actually quite useful (add it by searching for To Do in the Start menu, then right-clicking the result and selecting ‘Pin to Start’). I’ve also installed the To Do app for Windows 10. I can also add reminders and deadline dates, and repeat tasks. Click the appropriate task, then select ‘Add step’ to add your first sub task or ‘Next step’ to add to existing tasks (see screenshot above). And because I shared many of my old Wunderlist lists with family members (and vice versa), I had to reshare these lists, and persuade them to make the switch to To Do as well.Īs in Wunderlist, I can split each task into sub-tasks, turning larger jobs into more manageable chunks. It transfers everything, then cuts the cord. I was hoping – perhaps naively – that my imported lists and tasks would still sync with Wunderlist while I got to grips with To Do. I have a lot of to- do lists across various categories (Work, Home, Holiday, etc), and it managed to bring them all in without problems. To import my Wunderlist data (see screenshot below left). Like Wunderlist To Do lets you split tasks into sub-tasks To Do got off to a promising start, however.Īfter installing the app on my phone, I followed the prompts I’m just wary of Microsoft’s terrible reputation for maintaining – let alone improving – services it buys (Skype anybody?).
I therefore reluctantly switched from Wunderlist a few months ago. And late last year, it revealed Wunderlist will stop working on. Sure enough, two years later Microsoft announced it was shutting down Wunderlist in favour of its own To Do service. I suspected Wunderlist was on borrowed time when Microsoft bought the service in 2015. I’d stick with Wunderlist – the simple, but effective to-do list service that for eight years has been reminding me to do everything from buy milk to renew my home insurance.
This article should probably be renamed ‘How I’m Forced To Use Microsoft To Do’.
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