TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft To Do are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Simplified Task Management: Users have appreciated the platform's simplicity in task management, allowing them to easily assign tasks, organize them into groups, and set deadlines or micro-steps within each task. The intuitive interface with one-click access enhances user experience.
Daily View Feature: The Daily View feature is highly valued by users as it helps them plan their day effectively by showing upcoming tasks, daily priorities, and any missed tasks from previous days. This feature aids in time management and prioritization.
Detailed Task Customization: Users find it beneficial to add various details to tasks such as reminders, deadlines, repeating deadlines for weekly or monthly tasks, categories, files, and notes. This level of customization enhances the overall task management experience by catering to individual preferences.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
- Organize the to do for the day, week, month
- Keep track on meetings notes
- Annotate the ideas
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
As a small business owner also working a full-time career and managing a small family, it's hard to juggle all things at once without something slipping through. I use Microsoft To-Do to keep all of my tasks bucketed into their respective "families" you could say and make sure I don't miss deadlines for projects I'm working on. It also helps me see and plan far in the future. I use Groups in To-Do to manage lists for large-scope projects that could span over months or years. Before I used Microsoft To-Do, things were falling through the cracks, or a deadline would come up that I didn't park anywhere in a usable way, and it would be too late to act on it.
Pros
Simple task management. Through lists and groups, you can assign tasks, organize them into groups, and add deadlines (or not) to each of them. You can also add micro-steps within each task if you want to break it down even further.
Daily View - I know what's next, as well as what's coming up. I can turn on my laptop in the morning, open up Microsoft To-Do, and clearly see what needs to be done that day, what I may have missed from previous days, and what is coming up tomorrow.
The ability to add detail to a task. You can add micro-steps, like mentioned above, but also reminders that ding in-app, a deadline, a repeating deadline (which I love for weekly or monthly tasks), a category, files, and notes.
Cons
When adding a task with a repeating deadline, if the first deadline is set to a future date, the deadline will revert to "Today." This essentially has me set the deadline twice. If I remember this glitch, I'll set the repeating schedule first, then the deadline.
Likelihood to Recommend
It really depends on the colleague to determine if I recommend the product. I don't use the Microsoft email service, but it does tie to that product. It isn't so much a "visual" to-do list as some other products like ClickUp, so if my colleague needs more of a visual look at their projects and to-do list, I wouldn't recommend it. However, what this software does really well is simplicity. It just works, and it works really well. I can see all of my projects for the quarter on the left-hand side for work, business, and life, then can click through to see details of each goal. I always have a daily view of my to-dos that helps me plan my day to be as productive as possible.
Working with Microsoft Office 365 suite gets supercharged with Microsoft To Do.
Flagged emails? Auto suggested.
Assigned tasks from planner? Already on your to-do list.
Work mentions in emails and highlighted by Microsoft Viva? Added to the day of your reminder.
Thing is that Wunderlist was already very good and Microsoft has managed to keep it that way and integrated it into their app. Given that I work in a cross-functional capacity in my organization makes Microsoft To Do super useful.
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft To Do is free and integrates well with the Microsoft eco system. If you use Microsoft launcher on your android phone and Microsoft 365 as your office suite then this is a natural fit which works out of the box without having to put much thinking into a setup. The rest is a bonus.
I use Microsoft To-Do for keeping track of personal tasks. I don't use it within the context of a team or for any major project management features, I'm focused on using it for more individual day-to-day tasks.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
<ul><li>Creating a personal list of to-do items that you need to achieve. These could be one-offs or recurring items.</li><li>Managing simple projects with multiple stakeholders and follow-up items.</li><li>Using your task management software in conjunction with additional Microsoft productivity apps.</li></ul>
We started using Microsoft To Do to help our project management team stay up to date on tasks and keep a good working schedule that was easy to follow. We also wanted it to work with what we current[ly] are using, which was all Microsoft software. It appeared on the surface that it was going to allow our team to do a lot of work in one place. It did help but it felt limited.
Pros
Giving priority to certain tasks.
The scheduler did work well.
Mobile app.
Cons
The software felt limited.
No budget features.
Support was not great.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're not running multiple other softwares already then this might be a software to look into. For us, it just became another software for people to learn and try to work into their daily work load. It didn't suit our personal needs. I feel like if you're 3-5 people in an office or even if you're working from home, then it might be a great option given that it's free.
Each individual uses it as they need to. I use [it] to manage my daily workload so no important task falls through the cracks. It's important for me as I can manage tasks by urgency & have a visual overview of where I am at for the day.
Pros
Manage tasks by urgency
Manage tasks by day
Very easy to use
Cons
None that I can think of
Likelihood to Recommend
You cant assign tasks to people, but it's great to manage your own to-dos and tasks based on day & urgency level.
<div>If you work with projects or you are a person who needs to order his day to improve his productivity, you must use an organization tool and MS To-Do is one of them, it is simple to use, you keep everything in order and at a glance, it allows you to manage calendars, notes, assigned tasks and organize between those tasks that are more or less important.
</div><div><div>MS To-Do helped me a lot in the organization of my projects for the team, as well as planning a better distribution of the hours, to be more productive, to be able to have time to perform my assigned tasks, and also to be able to dedicate time to my specialization studies</div></div><div>
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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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The best use I had for the software is with the organization of my tasks, it helps me a lot when it comes to dedicating time to work, organizing the most important things, and then taking advantage of the time to continue improving my skills. But when it comes to sharing tasks with other team members, it becomes a bit difficult, there is no easy way to show others how busy you could be and where you are spending your time.
I've used Microsoft To Do since it was Wunderlist. It's helpful for tracking work and personal tasks that need to get done for projects. It helps with managing small tasks and I like that I have a place to digitally jot down what's in my head that needs to get done. Helps with work-life balance!
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
Likelihood to Recommend
<ul><li>Microsoft To Do (formerly Wunderlist) is great for managing my daily tasks, sharing lists with others, seeing what I need to get done today, and moving those "today to-dos" as I'm reprioritizing my day.</li><li>Microsoft To Do (formerly Wunderlist) is not so good for moving tasks between projects/lists and not good for arranging tasks/projects in hierarchical order. So, for example, if one project/task needs to be completed before another, you can't make the one dependent on another's completion.</li></ul>
It's an amazing to-do/task manager. I like how you can add dates, sub tasks/comments, etc. it's great for collaboration, too, as you can share the same list with other people for management. I use it for projects at work but I also use it on a personal level to help track or note other to-dos.
Pros
Assignments (you can assign people to tasks and share to-do/task lists)
Organization - the app is phenomenal with that
Space for description, attachments , etc
Cons
I wish it could integrate with outlook calendar
Likelihood to Recommend
<div>I love the tool and think it's great to track major deliverables or to dos that are cut and dry. Like working towards internal reviews, collaboration, general reminders of things, etc. Good for campaign management.
</div><div>I'd say it's not the tool to use if you need to create a timeline with dependencies, or for development teams as there are better tools that integrate with task lists/deployment pipelines.
I use Wunderlist for myself. It is a fantastic app to use for project management for yourself or small teams. I love how much it can do while still being so simple.
Pros
Document Mangagement
Team Collaboration
Project Management
Cons
It may be too simple for some people. However, that is why I love it.
No reporting
No Gantt Charts
Likelihood to Recommend
Wunderlist is great for individuals and small teams and those who like simple software that does what you need them to do without adding any unnecessary features.
