Unlike Tasks, To Do items are essentially a personal list of things to do that is accessed from the separate To Do section of Outlook. This CNET article that describes alternatives to Wunderlist includes information about the new Microsoft ‘To Do’ app. In early 2020, Microsoft released the ‘To Do’ app, built on Wunderlist. That company’s primary offering was the ‘to do’ app called Wunderlist. In mid 2015, Microsoft acquired 6Wunderkinder. Image source: Turn Emails into Tasks in Outlook- Instructions – TeachUcomp, Inc Outlook tasks become (things) To Doįor a long time, it was possible to create and assign tasks in the calendar part of email. This post describes the difference between To Do and Tasks, and how and why Tasks has become a bit confusing. In the Microsoft 365 world, personal tasks are now things we need to assign in the To Do app.

In Outlook, we could create a task, something we needed to do. We all have different ways to remind ourselves (and others) of things we (and they) need to do.

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