The issue is about the loss of efficient productivity. Productivity I lose in New Outlook since Tasks has been replaced with ToDo and Planner. The New Outlook and ToDo interface are too simple and does not allow for customization by experienced users. (Can you say Millennial Edition?) Flagging an email and setting a date has limited choices and too many clicks, AND I have to change applications to set a specific date and time. To Do takes 3 -4 additional clicks to schedule a task than I could do in Tasks by flagging an email and dragging it in an inbox subfolder. Loop and Planner are tools for Team collaboration. Tasks allows for individual planning of daily tasks and ongoing projects. To Do lacks drag and drop directly into my calendar. Individual Projects have schedules. The ability to reschedule a task is overly complicated. With a task it’s drag and drop to my next available opening on my calendar. Categories are overly simplified and not configurable. Sorting is overly simplified. The view in To Do does not give me an organized picture of tasks, by start date, due date and activity. Grouping in To Do is confusing. I have to create a list, then a group? Then drag the list into the Group? Dragging a list to a group doesn’t consistently work. I am happy to try new software, but I am not happy to move backward. See this forum for additional thoughts. New Outlook To Do replacing Tasks is heartbreaking. To Do isn't as - Microsoft Community

I temporarily switched to the new Outlook and am disappointed to see how poorly To Do functions. I hope Microsoft does better or I will need to find another solution.

I agree with this post and clearly, so do many others. Over the last 20 years, Microsoft Tasks has been one of the most useful pieces of software that I have used. It is very powerful and I have often shared my methods with colleagues, who have adopted it. Microsoft ToDos really dumbs down the process and makes it far less efficient- especially when you have a large number of tasks to manage. Please, Microsoft, you have a winning product here and are about to throw it away.

I refused to switch to the new Outlook. I am not a business user but with hundreds of tasks to manage I am lost without the Tasks module and can imagine how business users would also feel. Unfortunately I had no choice but to do a Windows Update as my computer was not functioning without it and low and behold I now have no choice - the tasks module has vanished and all my tasks have been imported into To Do whether I liked it or not. It has made a complete mess of my task dates and so on. So furious. Now what? It seems Microsoft doesn't care about the many complaints due to budget cuts I believe. So what program do we use now? Toodledo, Clickup, Todoist? Sorry Microsoft but To Do is just not going to cut it!

I like to keep a lot of information in my Tasks, many have checklists that I mark off over the course of weeks and even months, scheduling the tasks according to the next milestone. This is not super complicated in To Do. I've basically lost a heap of information that I had set up in tables etc. None of it is as nicely set up as the To Do bar in the old Outlook on which I have my calendar and all my tasks. I' really stressed about how I'll manage it all now. How is this an improvement? I'll be using several different applications when one worked perfectly. It's crazy.

Thanks for moving this subject here. A good summary of the thread you link. I hope this gets some traction with Microsoft.

Where is the real replacement for Tasks?

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The issue is about the loss of efficient productivity. Productivity I lose in New Outlook since Tasks has been replaced with ToDo and Planner.

The New Outlook and ToDo interface are too simple and does not allow for customization by experienced users. (Can you say Millennial Edition?)
Flagging an email and setting a date has limited choices and too many clicks, AND I have to change applications to set a specific date and time.
To Do takes 3 -4 additional clicks to schedule a task than I could do in Tasks by flagging an email and dragging it in an inbox subfolder.
Loop and Planner are tools for Team collaboration.
Tasks allows for individual planning of daily tasks and ongoing projects.
To Do lacks drag and drop directly into my calendar. Individual Projects have schedules.
The ability to reschedule a task is overly complicated. With a task it’s drag and drop to my next available opening on my calendar.
Categories are overly simplified and not configurable.
Sorting is overly simplified.
The view in To Do does not give me an organized picture of tasks, by start date, due date and activity.
Grouping in To Do is confusing. I have to create a list, then a group? Then drag the list into the Group? Dragging a list to a group doesn’t consistently work.

I am happy to try new software, but I am not happy to move backward. See this forum for additional thoughts. New Outlook To Do replacing Tasks is heartbreaking. To Do isn't as - Microsoft Community

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2024-05-10T13:06:48+00:00

I temporarily switched to the new Outlook and am disappointed to see how poorly To Do functions. I hope Microsoft does better or I will need to find another solution.
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2024-06-21T10:36:36+00:00

I agree with this post and clearly, so do many others.

Over the last 20 years, Microsoft Tasks has been one of the most useful pieces of software that I have used. It is very powerful and I have often shared my methods with colleagues, who have adopted it.

Microsoft ToDos really dumbs down the process and makes it far less efficient- especially when you have a large number of tasks to manage.

Please, Microsoft, you have a winning product here and are about to throw it away.
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2024-06-18T10:14:44+00:00

I refused to switch to the new Outlook. I am not a business user but with hundreds of tasks to manage I am lost without the Tasks module and can imagine how business users would also feel.

Unfortunately I had no choice but to do a Windows Update as my computer was not functioning without it and low and behold I now have no choice - the tasks module has vanished and all my tasks have been imported into To Do whether I liked it or not. It has made a complete mess of my task dates and so on. So furious. Now what? It seems Microsoft doesn't care about the many complaints due to budget cuts I believe. So what program do we use now? Toodledo, Clickup, Todoist? Sorry Microsoft but To Do is just not going to cut it!
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2024-08-01T02:34:51+00:00

I like to keep a lot of information in my Tasks, many have checklists that I mark off over the course of weeks and even months, scheduling the tasks according to the next milestone. This is not super complicated in To Do. I've basically lost a heap of information that I had set up in tables etc. None of it is as nicely set up as the To Do bar in the old Outlook on which I have my calendar and all my tasks. I' really stressed about how I'll manage it all now. How is this an improvement? I'll be using several different applications when one worked perfectly. It's crazy.
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2024-04-22T14:44:11+00:00

Thanks for moving this subject here. A good summary of the thread you link.

I hope this gets some traction with Microsoft.
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