Check out all the recent additions to Microsoft To-Do

Microsoft To-Do

Microsoft To-Do continues to become amend and better and October has been a pretty impressive month packed with new goodies. Whether you're a regular user or still to bound in, it tin can be hard to go along up with everything that'southward been going on.

And so here's a recap.

Microsoft has kindly rounded up everything new that To-Practise users have had recently or volition be seeing soon. Some features are even so rolling out or have been pre-appear for a afterward date.

Microsoft 365 integrations

Microsoft 365 integration seems like a no-brainer for an app like To-Do, and both Outlook and Skype are in the mix. The Skype integration is still rolling out, but it allows you to create tasks right from your Skype conversations.

Selecting "create a task" will pop out a dedicated tasks pane where you can add, edit and mark complete, and you'll be able to run into anything you create in both the Skype and To-Do apps. Meliorate still, it'll back up all the Skype apps you use.

Microsoft has also previewed some To-Practice integrations coming to Outlook beyond November and December. Similarly to the Skype integration, you'll be able to create tasks from emails in Outlook, with a dedicated pane and the power to just elevate and drop your emails. Similarly, y'all'll exist able to drag tasks onto your calendar to automatically block off fourth dimension in your mean solar day to get them done.

Flagged emails volition also be added to To-Practise under a dedicated list, adding some pretty neat productivity features between the two.

App characteristic updates

Anybody loves a dark mode, don't they? Users of Microsoft To-Do on Android have been given some love and the most recent update added a picayune more smoothen to the home screen widget. Dark way on Android looks slick.

For Windows users perhaps the biggest addition is inking support. Folks using a touchscreen can simply scrawl their tasks down and the app will interpret and add together them to your lists.

On something similar the new Surface Go in particular, this is a great feature and a really natural mode to interact with the app. OneNote already has great inking, and with To-Do on your tablet you've a real productivity 1-2 punch.

You lot can also at present add importance to your tasks, setting annihilation as high priority and it'll be pulled together into an important list with all high priority tasks. Importance carries across any list you have tasks in, including My 24-hour interval.

Plenty of corking stuff

It'south corking to see the steps forrard the Microsoft To-Do app is taking not simply on Windows, but across all platforms and with the wider integration into Microsoft services.

If you lot've got a item favorite feature or something you lot'd like to see added, driblet into the comments beneath.

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