About Microsoft To Do
Microsoft To Do pricing
Microsoft To Do has a free version and does not offer a free trial.
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Microsoft To Do Reviews for UK Users
Feature rating
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A simplified project management tool
Used wunderlist for so many years, it made my life easier both in work and personal related tasks. In the last years the mobile application became really unstable and we had to migrate to Microsoft TODO
Pros
Very easy to use, create multiple lists and add tasks inside the list. You can share your lists with other team members and assign tasks to them. You will get reminders when a task is due.
Cons
The software is a great task list software but not a fully developed project management tool, it lacks collaboration tools and you can't create a timeline.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Succeeds by simplicity--and Microsoft integrations
I use To Do to manage my own to-dos, including those assigned to me in any of the various Planner Plans I am part of.
Pros
Within the To Do pane, I can manage my own lists as well as Planner tasks that have been assigned to me. It's a more flexible interface than Planner, and provides a lighter, more mobile-friendly task experience. Further, To Do's My Day planning approach is simple but brilliant: start every day with a blank slate.
Cons
To Do doesn't do much natural language processing. The web app has been slow and difficult to use for years. To Do doesn't bring many high-bore features, such as Gantt charting, but it doesn't need to.
Reasons for Choosing Microsoft To Do
I love Teamwork! But it cost more than the (free) To Do, and it didn't integrate with Planner, a tool that we were beginning to adopt in the org.Switched From
Teamwork.comReasons for Switching to Microsoft To Do
Wrike and Freedcamp were, in their own ways, more complicated and less integrated than To Do.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Intergration to Outlook is awesome
Pros
This product works really great with Outlook.
Cons
No complaints! Free, and easy to use. Great product.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A neat solution, though far from perfect
Although it's quite an elegant solution overall (Microsoft has partnered with Wunderlist, so they must have seen something in it), it has a bit too many quirks and design flaws for my taste. All the basic functionality is there, the synchronization works seamlessly, and the app is visually appealing, but I wouldn't describe the whole experience with the interface as very smooth or extremely intuitive.
Pros
It's clean and simple, syncs quite well across devices (web interface and apps available, with widgets and even a browser add-on), and has some basic GTD functionality (though far from a complete solution).
Cons
Editing tasks is a bit of a nuisance because you have to double click on a task to access its data. Even editing a task name is a bit of a faff. Also, dragging tasks is not hassle-free, e.g. you have to grab the left edge of the task strip (which is not indicated visually except by a "hand" once you're actually hovering on the edge), but when you are in the Today list, although the hand appears as well, the tasks are not draggable for some reason (I struggled quite a lot with this, thinking this was a bug, but apparently it's by design - albeit very poor design, in my view).
What I also find very annoying is that when I type in a link in a task description, it is converted to an actual link that works only until you click it, after which (once the target url is opened) it becomes just text and you have to click in some blank area to make it clickable again.
It's all a bit inconsistent: you can drag tasks to other lists, but you can't drag a list to another folder; you have to right-click and "move to".
All in all, it doesn't make for a very smooth experience.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Microsoft Personal Productivity To Do List Tasks Application
Overall, I like it when I use Microsoft To Do to manage my day. It is a great productivity tool that helps me stay organized.
Pros
- I use Microsoft To Do to digitally manage my day as far as my tasks is concerned. It's easy and simple to use and being a Microsoft product, it easily integrates and with other Microsoft products that I already use. The application is free, I have not had to pay a cent to use the application.- With Microsoft To Do, you can creates different task lists for different things. For example, you can have tasks both for work and for your own personal life all in one account. - Automation: In terms of automation, I love that I can add due dates to tasks automatically. For example, if you type 'Call mom tommorow', a due date will be automatically added for the task for tommorow.- One of my favorite features about Microsoft To Do is the fact that it behaves the same way Microsoft Outlook behaves in terms of notifying you when a task is due. The notification pop up is so clear and hard to miss when you are using your laptop/desktop. It comes the same way an email comes through using Microsoft Outlook.
Cons
I have nothing bad to say about Microsoft To Do. I can only recommend that they continue to work on and advance the application to make it better and attractive. For example, they could incorporate a timer so someone is able to track the time they are taking to complete a certain task instead of having to rely on a separate application for that.
