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Microsoft To Do

Score9.3 out of 10

238 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft To Do?

Microsoft To Do replaces the former Wunderlist task management tool.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 8

  • Change request and Case Management

    Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Budget and Expense Management

    Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Scheduling

    Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Quotes/estimates

    Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers

    Category average: 8.6

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 8.3

Easy to use to keep track of your daily work

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It help me organize my work tasks. Keep my due dates. Allow me to describe and annotate my ideas directly on the tasks and setup steps to conclude each one. That way I have all my development schedule in place and for easy access in the company professional Microsoft professional account.

Pros

  • Organize the to do tasks
  • Annotate Ideas
  • Keep the due dates on check

Cons

  • Allow to reorder freely
  • Export tasks
  • Share Tasks

Return on Investment

  • Better organization and understanding of the demands
  • Easily note ideas not to forget
  • Plan solutions to bugs of the software

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp and Google Tasks

Other Software Used

ClickUp, Google Tasks

Miss Less and Do More with Microsoft To Do

Pros

  • Suggestions.
  • Assignments.
  • Reminders.

Cons

  • Overdue assignments/tasks can be managed better. Would love it if To Do reminded me of the things I'm behind without having to open Outlook.

Return on Investment

  • It helps keeping track of everything going on.

A solid, basic to-do app

Pros

  • Creating lists of things that need to get done
  • Creating lists of other items that you want to sort by category
  • Giving you a prioritized list of what you should try to accomplish in your day

Cons

  • Easily assigning tasks to others: [I feel] it's confusing that some lists are shared and others are not and you can't move items between them
  • Auto-detect of dates or tags for quick list creation

Return on Investment

  • More personal accountability for completing assigned tasks
  • More on-time delivery of key action items that are dependencies for other teams

Alternatives Considered

Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager

If you want improve your productivity, download MS To Do

Pros

  • Nice and simple UI.
  • Easy to use.
  • Everything that you need you could get it with one-click.
  • Perfect Sync system.

Cons

  • It is a simple software, so it does not have many other options like Evernote
  • Set date-time is a little bit hard to set.
  • Share you task with another is difficult.

Return on Investment

  • Personal organization
  • Productivity
  • Simple to use

Alternatives Considered

Evernote

Other Software Used

Evernote

Former Wunderlist user sticking with To Do for now

Pros

  • Auto-set due dates
  • Can use the drag-and-drop function to move items up and down on a list
  • Planned list helps me see what I need to do today
  • Recurring tasks can be set at X days and not just weekly

Cons

  • I really, really dislike that they removed Microsoft To Do (formerly Wunderlist)'s feature to keep lists alphabetized after I click to alphabetize sort. Makes it very hard to manage the list.
  • Really need the ability to move a task/item from one list to another
  • Would love the ability to print a flow of tasks in a graphic

Return on Investment

  • Increased productivity
  • Lowered time to track tasks on paper or spreadsheets

Alternatives Considered

Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager and Trello

Other Software Used

Keap (formerly Infusionsoft), SurveyMonkey