Go on, dust off the tasks button in Outlook and have a look – you’ll see all your tasks from To Do. In fact, tasks in To Do are actually tasks in Outlook. In the world of Office 365, Microsoft To Do relies on Outlook as its underlying storage service. Yes, like a bizarre love triangle there is a connection between OneNote, Outlook, and To Do.

This is important to note because for many people they would only be discovering OneNote now (despite the fact it’s over 15 years old) as well as Microsoft To Do, and potentially getting confused by this feature that appears not to work properly. However, Microsoft To Do has absolutely nothing to do with the “To Do” tag in OneNote despite using the same capitalisation. In the latter it can connect to Planner, Microsoft Teams, Outlook email, calendar and tasks. It’s a task management app, available both free for consumer users of as well as organisational Office 365 users. Wait, this isn’t the same as Microsoft To Do? The most excitement this little feature gets is when you check the box:Īnd for many years that’s been just fine, as savvy users of OneNote would use these tags (and others) to filter and find notes across pages, sections, and even notebooks. That checkbox is literally nothing more than a tag that can be used for searching, and a visual queue.

2013, 2016, not “OneNote for Windows 10”) we have a “To Do” tag that appeared in the ribbon:īut what does it do? Not much, just a nice little checkbox: For many years in the OneNote desktop client (i.e.

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