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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While we aren’t adding automatic population of due dates to My Day at the moment, we have made some significant changes to the Planned list.
Rolling out on Android now (version 2.17), and coming soon to other platforms, you can now see a distinct Today view in the Planned list. You can also choose to group this view by list so that you get a view of what you have to do today across all your lists. You can choose to close particular lists e.g. Home if you don’t want to see it while at work.
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Anonymous
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Without auto-populating into the "May Day" portion of the program, I am just doing a bunch of extra work to get thing to appear on that section. I am baffled that it isn't an automatic feature. Sure turn it on and off but why is the feature even there if I have to do it all manually. I may be switching to another to-do list app, this was disappointing. I was excited to link this one to my work email and it's not living up to its expectations.
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Stephan Koenig
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The old today list was great! I miss it a lot.
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Anonymous
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Still not useful. If you do all the effort of adding due dates. Why does it not appear in my day???
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Anonymous
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Just started using. Very disappointed that you cant auto add recurring tasks to My Day. Will now look for someone who does
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Anonymous
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I think there should be an option to add recurring Tasks to MyDay automatically.
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Andy Barcus
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Similar to the Franklin Planner, making the effort to write down what you plan to do each day (spending much time copying from the previous day's list) is part of what helps you plan, so there is some value in doing this yourself.
That said - for someone living in the "to-do" app, it would be awesome to have all meetings for the day pop into My Day. It is easy enough to remove them if one plans to skip a meeting.
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Amanda
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Completely agree - My day at the moment is useless when you have to constantly add tasks where the due date is today
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Andrew Martin
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If you're not going to make My Day useful, could you at least allow us to have the option of hiding it so it's not just sitting there taunting us with the promise of what it should be?
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Frank Turtle
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Please add this rollover option. It is crazy to have to go through all the tasks again each morning to add them to My Day.
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Anonymous
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Makes absolutely no sense. One would expect that the "My Day" view would show everything that you have due for TODAY. Other task managers from much smaller companies do this without issue, why is this such a big problem for MS?
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[Deleted User]
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The today view in the planned list shows tasks by alphabetical order, not due time. So things due in the afternoon show before tasks due in the morning. It is the only section without the option to choose sorting. The only way to get it right is to manually drag each item to the right order, but you have to open each one to see the due time as it isn't displayed for some bizarre reason. so STILL no way to automatically see your tasks for the day in proper chronological order, like normal people do.
You have to wonder how Microsoft actually manages to produce anything if they can't understand basic timeline functionality. Explains why there are so many bug fixes.
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Josiah Schaffer
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Agreed with everyone else. Make it an opt in feature. So those of us that don’t care about the intentional “feature” can just add a due date to a task and see all of our tasks due that day. Please!!!
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Don M
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Also voting to add a user preference to turn on adding items due to the My Day list and leaving them there until user takes action: completes task, re-prioritizes to different due date, etc. Currently, My Day is useless
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Anonymous
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Yes, PLEASE! That is one of the few things that makes me want to look for another app. AS other have suggested, with an on/off option so we have the choice.
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Glenys
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Please add this feature - why is there an option to assign a day something needs to be done if it can't automatically be populated in 'My Day' each day (although there should also be the option of not having this happen for those who don't want the feature). I'm juggling 2 medical centres with many, many things that have to be done by a set date - this would be invaluable
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Anonymous
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I can understand the intent of not auto populating it. You should make it and option to turn on/off. That way for those people who need more reminding especially for repeat tasks, that can be an on/off option as well
Thank you
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Joey Malanka
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Please add this feature, it would be such a value add
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[Deleted User]
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Add this feature please
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Anonymous
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Two years have passed.
Make it optional and finish this agony.
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Svein Alexander Frotjold
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Please add this as an option asap. i'm sick of missing my planned tasks since they do not appear in my day automatically.
Option: Show planned tasks for today in "My Day"