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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Jeffrey
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When you flag an email and it appears in ToDo as a task there is an "Open in Outlook" feature which when clicked opens the email in the Edge browser, I would like this to open the email in the desktop Outlook.
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TaylorA6767
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Just want to copy this from others: "On windows desktop app when you click "open in outlook" give an option to open in Outlook for Desktop instead of launching browser."
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Louis Broomes
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Funniest joke is that on the Mac version of Outlook it has the option to switch to ‘new outlook’. When you do that you can no longer flag email to show in todo, you click on the todo icon in Outlook and it links you to a web version of todo! That is not good enough Microsoft! 🤦🏽♂️
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Louis Broomes
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This is rubbish, why can’t it work like wunderlist did. What happens if I have multiple email accounts I use at the same time? Todo only allows you to link with one email address?!?
This was never an issue with wunderlist, how can you take over an app, shut down the original and make the replacement worse than the original?????? You’re supposed to be Microsoft? Oh wait, same company who won’t let me reply direct to a message in teams desktop, but allows it on phones, who doesn’t have a recall email feature on outlook for Mac but does on Windows version.... 🤦🏽♂️
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Benjamin Fürnsinn
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+1 on making outlook links open in the desktop Outlook app
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Anonymous
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I would like to use GTD with To-Do list. I can see To-Do lists in Outlook and can't work with my To-Do lists in Outlook. Turning on e-mail flag to re-manage in To-Do is redundant.
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Anonymous
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I don't want to flag emails. I want to be able to open an email and press a button to convert it to a task. Nothing more.
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Josh
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Unfortunately, I had to turn off this feature because my To Do suggestions was filled up with spam.
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Pedro Teixeira
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On windows desktop app when you click "open in outlook" give an option to open in Outlook for Desktop instead of launching browser.
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Anonymous
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This is a must but flagging my emails does not yet add the to my task list. :(
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Anonymous
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On windows desktop app when you click "open in outlook" give an option to open in Outlook for Desktop instead of launching browser.
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Pascal
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It shoulder be great to distinguish email i send (with a task for someone else but to follow) and e-mails i receive (with task I’ve to do)
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Anonymous
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Hi,
In mobile application (both in ios and android) "Open with Outlook" link in the tasks does not work. In web screens it works. It has to be developed.
Best Regards.
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Anonymous
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I want to be able to tie a to do to the e-mail thread so we can respond once done
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Anonymous
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cant receive e mails
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Mike Harris
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+1 on making outlook links open in the desktop Outlook app :)
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Anonymous
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Thank you for option to make flagged emails task, I just found out about it a couple weeks ago. It saves me time everyday.
Would like to increase usefulness of flagged email to task feature by allowing flagged email created tasks to be moved to other lists than just "flagged email"list, the only list flagged emails can be tasks on now.
For example on my "lagged emails" list now I have "flagged for fu email quote from farmer" for for my volunteer job coop. I would like to move " task created from flagged email from farmer requiring fu" under my " carrot buy" list which is under my "produce buy" group.
Note I was long time power user of the many, much more powerful features of older versions of outlook tasks. I made it work but it was far from easy. It took months of time to customize and lots of work to integrate into my work flow. It had many features 99% of users had no clue how to find, much less use. Please do not do that to "todo".
In contrast I liked Wunderlist in many ways better, especially its practical simplicity before MS bought it. It did a few things incredibly well and for most users that is all they need.
I would like the feature I requested, but not at expense of simplicity and ease of use and ease of understanding. Even a incredibly useful feature that is not easy to find, learn and use will make "todo" less useful.
Thanks to everyone on the team for what they do.
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ANGEL ANGIE
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Wonderful post
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Dan
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+1 to having the outlook links open messages in the Outlook Desktop App.
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Jassim Al Rahma
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Yes please make it a folder within Outlook but it should be able to open the folder per user, for example if I have two O365 users configured on Microsoft Outlook then each should have its own ToDo without me having to signin and signout