Plan and connect with Microsoft To Do (2024)

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UseMy Day and suggestions to plan each day and focus on accomplishing your most important tasks. Connect Microsoft To Do with Outlook tosee your tasks there and create new ones fromflagged email.

Add tasks to My Day

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With My Day and suggestions, it's easier than ever to focus on your most important tasks. When you first open To Do each day, you'll see an empty My Day list where you can enter the tasks you’d like to focus on for the day. After using Microsoft To Do for at least one day, you’ll also be able to add tasks from suggestions.

To plan your day using suggestions:

Select the lightbulbin the top right.
Review thesuggested tasksand select + to add the ones you want to My Day.

You can also enter new tasks directly inMy Day.

All of the tasks entered in My Day will also be saved in your Tasks list. Anything you aren't able to complete today will be saved and suggested to you tomorrow.

Connect withOutlook

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To view your tasks inOutlookand manage your flagged email directly in Microsoft To Do,sign inwiththe samepersonal, work,or schoolaccount that you usefor email. 

All tasks are stored on Exchange Online services, so they'll appear in both Microsoft To Do and Outlook automatically.

To enable the Flagged Email list, select the option to Show list.
Or,turn the list on in Settings.

Once turned on, your flagged email will appear as tasksin Microsoft To Do. The task's name willbe the subject of the flaggedmessageand willinclude a preview of the email's text in its detail view. Toopen the original email, select the option toOpen in Outlookfrom the task's detail view.Items in the Flagged Emaillistcan be renamed, assigned due dates and reminders, added to My Day,and marked as important.