What is Microsoft Loop FOR? Conflict with use for Teams, OneNote, and Loop?

Whilst I agree that Microsoft's UX needs improvement, I would like to point out the data being across multiple apps is NOT the same as being across multiple platforms. Predominantly The office data is on a single platform, and everything can be found by searching (permissions allowing) in SharePoint/Teams. Additionally, Microsoft continue to enhance at pace their tools, a recent update to OneDrive has provided even better surfacing of documents across the whole of your organisation, there are side tabs for "Files", which show you every file you have worked on across every team/location, the "People" tab shows you all of your colleagues you interact with or a regular basis and the files they have been working on, and then the new "Meetings" tab, shows all of your meetings in one place from all sources and has links to any recordings or attached documents for the meeting. I think a lot of the context of what best is is always situational and in large part dependant on the size of your organisation. If you are a smaller organisation then the requirement to have a large toolset such as M365 might be less compelling (because fewer numbers might mean, everyone knows everyone, and you only need a file share), but I have only every worked for larger companies where communication and collaboration generally gets worse the more employees you have, and I believe that in this context Microsoft has the edge, and they just need to progress further still on better use cases and demonstrate how you can get to your data from anywhere in just a few clicks

Dear respected Robert Derby1,

Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

As per your description, I understand that you are confused about the purpose and use of Microsoft Loop Canvas and how it relates to Microsoft Teams and OneNote. I will try to explain.

Microsoft Loop is a new product that is designed to help teams collaborate and stay organized (it is designed to provide users with a new way to collaborate on documents). It is not meant to replace Microsoft Teams or OneNote, but rather to complement them. Loop is designed to be a flexible canvas that can be used to organize and share all kinds of content, including notes, files, tasks, and more.

However, Loop is not meant to replace Teams as a central hub for collaboration. Instead, it is meant to provide a more flexible and customizable way for teams to organize and share content.

You don’t have to stop using Teams or OneNote if you start using Loop Canvas. You can use them together to enhance your productivity and creativity.

Appreciate your patience and understanding and thank you for your time and cooperation.

Sincerely,

Waqas Muhammad

For instance, it would be ideal if every Microsoft Teams meeting could generate a Loop, as there are times when creating a channel is not necessary, and a Loop would suffice for the entire team's collaboration needs.

You can generate Loop components from Microsoft Teams meetings. If you go into the meeting using Teams and scroll to the bottom there is a place for "notes", the notes are a template loop component, which you can access later online through the loop web app and add to a loop workspace or share in other M365 applications. The template component includes an agenda, notes, and an area for task assignment.

Microsoft does not have clear, simple and seamless collaboration platform. Is all over the place, Teams, OneDrive, OneNote, Sharepoint, now Loop.

They all have bits of each other and they do not communicate properly.

Make Teams more powerful and more integrated with Onedrive and Forget about all else, Is rubbish!

Loop is turning into a no go for me. I thought / hoped it would be better than OneNote. I like the assignments and colleagues getting notified with the due dates, etc. I also like access on my iPhone, etc. But the search function is very bad. I made some easy tests and it couldn't find specific text in my Loop documents... Can't import files either - support says you can drag/drop but it doesn't work. I attached PDFs to OneNote almost all of the time. And Evernote will search the attached PDF - that's been so helpful over the years. And I can't zoom in/out on Loop on my iPhone, makes reading small text very hard... Too many issues to try and recommend using to my colleagues...