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Automatic populating of My Day

I have several Lists each with numerous actions. I assign Due Dates to each action. Every day I have to troll through all my actions and Add to My Day on all those actions which are due today. It would save an awful lot of time if an algorithm could be devised by Microsoft which automatically registers those actions due today in My Day

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  • Gloria Kozier commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    a feature where the "My Day" tasks dont leave the "My Day" list until they are completed or deleted. So they carry over from day to day if things dont get done on that day and they dont have to be re-added to the "My Day" list repeatedly

  • Grant Strydom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree ... at least make it an option for those of us who would like to prepopulate to choose to do so. I agree it would be good to either highlight overdue in red at the top of the list or have a separate "Overdue" list.

  • Annoyed Consumer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Like the OP, I have several tasks I've scheduled in the past and they all happen to fall on the same due date, it makes NO sense to use any other list other than 'my day' to have a combined view of tasks that are due today.

    This is an overdue change that I cannot believe has taken over 3 years!

    Best wishes,

    Annoyed consumer

  • Andrey Strebko commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Leave "My Day" as it is now. If it fills up automatically, those who do not want to spend 5 minutes to enter tasks into it manually in the morning will spend 10 minutes every morning to clear "My Day" of inappropriate or overdue tasks. It will be very demotivating every day.

  • Rich Giordano commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would love to have this automatically populated daily. You should also include anything I didn't mark complete from the prior day.

  • Balky commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Same thing.
    What is the purpose of "My Day" if it does not automatically populate from all/selected lists that are marked as "use for my day"?

    is it just another list? ...
    I'd expect my day to get everything that should happen on today's date.

    Planned should be e.g. - a week time frame, or everything with any date

  • TP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature is why one would use software over manual lists. Please add it

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Came on to say precisely this. It would be great if your scheduled tasks would appear in My Day when the scheduled day hits.

  • T Holt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Reading through a lot of the comments there are a lot of different requests. I think it would make more sense to have the ability to create a custom view of existing tasks, like the "Tasks" option in the "To Do Bar" in Outlook desktop. If the view had enough options, it could potentially satisfy a lot of users and the various needs. ie: view option to show todays tasks and overdue OR only today OR today and tomorrow.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This, as well as automatically populating My Day with unfinished tasks from the previous day. Would be very helpful as I have to do that manually every day

  • PRUOS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    not sure if in one of the many comments below but in additional to the many good suggestions, I would like the ability to be able to set recoccuring daily tasks to be in My Day. I have several things I have to do each work day and have to add them everyday manually

  • Summerrrz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, automatic populating of My Day based on due date would remove a huge barrier for use, for me.

  • Federico Mazzaferri commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is what I am looking for, it doesn't offload (cognitively speaking) me to reach the planned activity in an apposite section, it would be more user friendly to just make them appear on the proper day

  • Steven commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree this would be useful; if its not desired by everyone then it should at least be an option.

  • Aniket commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It should be a trivial change to support this but make it super useful for everyone. It also seems like such a basic feature to do (as what is the point of every day dragging all tasks manually to 'My Day' if this isn't automated?). What was the guy designing the 'My Day' list thinking by not supporting it on day-1? (Tap on the head).

    I spend the everyday morning up to five mins moving due tasks for the day to 'My Day.' Assuming you have 100K users using it, you could save them close to 8K hours, daily!!

  • Chad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can basically only add my +1000 endorsement to every suggestion and reason provided in this comment thread.

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    And the list should sort by reminder time, which Planned will not do.

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