Outlook Mail Integration
Having a quick way to convert emails in Outlook to tasks that show up in Microsoft To-Do.
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If you have enabled the ‘Flagged email’ option from settings in To Do, then any email you flag in Outlook will show up under the ‘Flagged email’ smartlist.
From the Outlook web app, you can create a task out of an email by right-clicking —> Advanced actions —> Create task. You can also select a message in the body of an email and create a task out of it.
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Amy T
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1) Basic functionality should have been implemented BEFORE you shut down the fully working product Wunderlist. You could have just kept the app running as it was and used the subscription fees to pay more devs to work on implementing it on Azure.
2) The solution "If you have enabled the ‘Flagged email’ option ... any email you flag in Outlook will show up under the ‘Flagged email’ smartlist." This still doesn't work.
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Chris
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Open email messages in Outlook client when available instead of web app.
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Kyle
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implement a setting that allows users to choose if they want to use OWA or Desktop version of Outlook.
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Kristina
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I would like "To Do" to open the desktop version of Outlook when I click on "Open in Outlook" and not the the web version.
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LisaJo
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What I see is that in To Do, it's just a link to the outlook email when an email is added as a task in To Do. If I delete the email in outlook, because I no longer want it to be a 'message' because it is now a 'task', the link that is in the task is broken and I lose all the content of the email UNLESS I keep the email in my Inbox which, of course, defeats the whole purpose: distinguishing between messages and tasks, keeping outlook cleaned out and using ToDo for it's intended purpose.
The ToDo task should contain the content of the email and no longer be linked to/dependent upon the actual mail item.
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Ric Paul
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1. I would like To Do to be properly integrated with the desktop version of Outlook, in preference to the web version (which I don't use)
2. I would like to be able to attach emails to To Do tasks - turning emails into To Do items is all very well, but most of my tasks have multiple emails associated with them: I need to be able to have one task with multiple emails attached to it. For me, this is the single most frustrating aspect of To Do.
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Ricardo
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Can the "Open in outlook" function open up the app instead of the web version of outlook?
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Vũ Thuân
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4 years past, MS is still working on it. Hope you're really doing something
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Karim
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there is also an option that i made in powerautomate that automaticly flags all incoming email.
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Jon Seaman
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It would be awesome if you could set an option to show other Outlook task fields in MS TODO. If you had all of them, the UI would feel cluttered, but it would be nice if I could enable showing ActualWork and TotalWork fields (or any custom fields) in TODO, and also be able to edit them.
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Penny
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Can the "Open in outlook" function open up the app instead of the web version of outlook?
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Chiara Fumanti
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In reply to the last admin reply, the "flagged email" option seems to only be available if you have a Microsoft email address such as outlook.com. Could you expand it to other email addresses such as gmail?
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uLtra
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"Open in Outlook" button needs to open in my desktop application...NOT THE WEB! PLEASE!
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Anonymous
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"Open in Outlook" should be able to open flagged emails in desktop Outlook application, not online application. Or make an option to choose which application to use.
It's really frustrating when working all day in desktop Outlook and desktop To Do application, but emails opened in online web view - why? -
Anonymous
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Should be able to open flagged emails from To Do into the desktop application, not web application. I don't use web application...
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Marcel Weber
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would be great if e-mails (multiple and varous e-mails belonging to a certein taks) could be assigned to specific to do by means of drag & drop or any other easier way than opening them via browser.
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Alex Fritz
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Frustrating that when you click to open the email in To Do, it reverts to opening the message in the web mail interface rather than in the Outlook Application (on Mac)
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Michael Marsh
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Need to have an action like "send to OneNote" or "send to Teams" for ToDo
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Anonymous
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I would like the option to have a linked email open in the Outlook desktop application when I'm on my computer, rather than opening in the web app. It doesn't appear to be a setting I can control, and when I'm on my computer, I only use the desktop app.
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Anonymous
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same comment as below...
Anonymous commented · May 10, 2021 00:53 · Flag as inappropriate
In the desktop Outlook app, this option puts a flagged email into the desktop To Do app. This is great.HOWEVER.... In the desktop To Do app, clicking on the flagged email entry opens the flagged email in the WEB Outlook client, which I almost never use, and is very slow by comparison to the desktop Outlook app.
If the desktop app is present on the same PC or Mac as the desktop To Do app, surely clicking on the flagged email can open it in the desktop Outlook app?