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My goal in this course is to show you how to best use Outlook for Mac 2016 to manage your work life, your schedule and your tasks. I'll show you tips and tricks that will help you leverage the to-do list, calendar and tasks in Outlook to organize your work so you can spend less time managing work and more time completing work. Wunderlist is a simple todo list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done. Whether you’re sharing a grocery list with a loved one, working on a project, or planning a vacation, Wunderlist makes it easy to capture, share, and complete your todos.
Flagging a message causes erratic behavior in viewing the To Do List, with nothing showing under Today except a lot of blank entries. Tasks for today are no longer visible in the list - although they can still be seen when looking at the Tasks page. This bug affects all users with more than one data file in their profile. If the data files are pst files, the problem only occurs if an email account is delivering mail to a pst or the pst is enabled for reminders. There a few workarounds you can use to see your tasks again:.
Turn off the option to automatically group by a field in View Settings. Right-click on the row of field names and untick Show in Groups. Group by Category or Folder (any arrangement that does not group by a date). If you need to group by the Start date or Due date, open View Settings, Group By.
Untick Automatically group by arrangement and select Due Date in Group items by selector. To change the view on the Task list in the To-do Bar, right click on the row above the tasks that reads “ Arrange by” and choose a different arrangement, untick Show in Groups or choose View settings to customize the view.
A list of tasks, a checkbox, a due date, and perhaps a notes field. The things you must have in a to-do list app is a surprisingly short list.
And sometimes, focusing on those core features is the best way to make an app that will help you get things done. That's what Wunderlist did when it first launched in late 2010. It let you organize tasks on shared lists, with a bright, eye-catching design—and that was it. It was enough to make it the App Store's Mac App of the Year list 3 years later.
Time brought features—and a Microsoft acquisition. Now, just over six years later, there's a new simple to-do list app in town: Microsoft To-Do.
It's a reinvented task app with the best of Wunderlist in a simplified design. Something Old, Something New—and Blue. The new Microsoft To-Do looks much like a simplified version of Wunderlist is a brand new task management app from the Wunderlist and Office teams. It's straightforward, with lists of tasks and a clear button to check them off. Add tasks quickly—just tap Add a to-do, type in your task, press Enter, and immediately start typing in your next task to quickly fill out your list.
Drag tasks to the order you want, or make a new list and drag tasks there to organize them. Each list includes a banner image and color, which you can customize from 5 included options. Double-click on tasks to see hidden options for adding a due date and notes. It's simple, focused just on organizing the core tasks you need to do.
And, it's free: Just go to and log in with a Microsoft account to get started. Wunderlist focused on full-screen background images and detailed tasks, on the other hand, was designed around eye catching background images and teamwork.
From the original wood paneled design with bubbly tasks that appeared to float over the app's surface to today's more subdued design, it was always easy to tell Wunderlist apart from its more buttoned up competitors. It also ended up being quite packed with features. From the first version, you could share task lists with others—and it grew to include professional tools including list folders, comments, and sub-tasks. Peek back at Wunderlist's best features in Zapier's from late 2015.
Wunderlist also ran everywhere, with Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Kindle, Chrome, and Web apps that worked great on devices of all sizes. Microsoft To-Do includes only Windows, Web, iOS, and Android apps—and neither of the mobile apps are designed for tablets today.
Microsoft To-Do is a simpler take on your task list—but it includes one killer feature that sets it apart from Wunderlist and other to-do apps: My Day. Microsoft To-Do vs. Microsoft To-Do lets you import Wunderlist and to-doist tasks First, though, you'll want to bring along your old tasks. If you've used Wunderlist for years, you'll want to bring over all of your uncompleted tasks—and may even want to keep your older, completed tasks for the record. Microsoft To-Do will automatically import the tasks you may have added to your Outlook or Hotmail account—you'll see those in your core To-Do list when you first log in (and your Microsoft To-Dos will sync back to Outlook automatically). You can then import tasks from Wunderlist and to-doist. To do that, go to or tap your name in Microsoft To-Do and select Import.
Select the service you want to import tasks from, then sign in with that account. Choose the lists you want to import. Microsoft To-Do doesn't support folders right now, so it will show each folder and sub-list as its own individual list. It also doesn't support sub-tasks, so Microsoft will ask if you'd like to import sub-tasks as a note on the task or as individual new tasks. Choose what you want, and a few minutes later you'll see your old lists in Microsoft To-Do. If you add new tasks to Wunderlist or to-doist later, you'll then need to re-import your lists to get those items moved over as well.
Microsoft To-Do imports your lists, tasks, and due dates. It also imports task description and comments then merges them together into one longer description. It won't, however, import attached files or the task assignments—every task will just be on your list, with no collaborators. Learn Your Way Around Microsoft To-Do. Want to customize your list? You can rename it, or choose from 5 built-in background images and colors. There's also an option to hide completed to-dos, which Microsoft To-Do keeps visible on your list by default.
And, you can sort your list however you want, or search through all your tasks from the magnifying glass icon. You can even organize your lists with —just add an emoji and a space to the beginning of a list name, and you'll see the emoji instead of the standard list icon in the sidebar. One of Wunderlist's best features was speed—it synced tasks uncannily fast.
Microsoft To-Do keeps that tradition. Add a task or tweak a to-do list, and you'll see the changes show up on your devices seconds later (we timed it—a task added online showed up on mobile 3 seconds later). Choose What to do Today with Microsoft To-Do My Day. You could type in new tasks each day. Or, tap the lightbulb icon for Suggestions.
This will show the tasks that are due today, your overdue tasks and those leftover from yesterday, and suggested tasks Microsoft To-Do thinks you might want to do today. Tap the + icon to add them to your My Day list, and you'll have a focused set of things to work on. Sometimes the most important things to do aren't the things that are listed as due today. The My Day page is a great way to build your own list of things you know need done today, to remind yourself of the work ahead each morning. Should You Switch From Wunderlist? Today, Microsoft To-Do is a simple to-do list app, somewhat reminiscent of Google Tasks combined with Wunderlist's design sensibilities. It's just enough to organize your tasks into lists, remind you when things are due, and keep track of basic notes about those tasks.
And its My Day suggestions are a rather helpful way to figure out what you want to do today, without feeling forced to just do the things that are due today. It's great for a new personal to-do list. If that's how you were using Wunderlist—and if you mostly manage tasks on your phone or in a browser—it's a great time to move your tasks over to a fresh new home. If you used Wunderlist with a team, though, and relied on assigned tasks, detailed project folders, sub-tasks, and integrations to build your own workflows, Microsoft To-do won't cut it today.
It's missing a number of Wunderlist features today:. Mac, tablet, and Chrome apps. List Folders.
Sub-tasks. Comments. Attachments. Natural language processing. Collaboration, including shared lists and assigned tasks. Starred tasks. Keyboard Shortcuts.
Today, Week, Starred, and Assigned to Me lists. Integrations The launch post for Microsoft To-Do 'list sharing, apps for Mac, iPad and Android tablet, as well as additional integrations with other Microsoft services' will be coming soon. There's even a where you can add and upvote features you'd like to see in the app. Microsoft also says, though, that Wunderlist will be retired once Microsoft To-Do 'incorporates the best of Wunderlist'—so eventually, you'll have to switch. Microsoft To-Do may fit your team's needs soon—but for now, you'd be best to stick with Wunderlist while it still works or perhaps try out a more advanced.
Sometimes you have to take the best ideas from an app, then start over and make something new, something that covers the basics better than before. That seems to be what Microsoft's aiming to do with its brand-new take on Wunderlist's core features.
It's a great new simple way to manage tasks, one that just could become your next favorite to-do list app.