Microsoft To Do app for Mac - Comparison with Reminders app

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Microsoft, finally, released To-Do app for macOS and iOS. In a earth where at that place are many To-Practice list apps, what does information technology hateful to install and utilize the Microsoft To-Do for MacOS? macOS (until Mojave) has its own Reminders app that works pretty well the same as Microsoft To-Do app for the macOS. We'll talk near the Reminders app in a bit. The question at present is: volition at that place exist whatever shift of users from macOS Reminders to Microsoft To-Practise app? Information technology is too early to give whatsoever verdict but hither are some of the skilful and bad features of Microsoft To-Do app for macOS.

Microsoft To-Practise App for macOS

The installation of Microsoft To-Do app is fairly smoothen. You lot don't demand to manually motion the application from DMG to Applications. The app writes itself to Applications automatically while installing.

Once yous open the To-Do Microsoft app from Launchpad or the Dock, you may be in for a surprise. The app already has some tasks that you lot haven't yet created on the To-Do app. It is considering you had already entered those tasks into your Outlook.com Tasks, Outlook Desktop Tasks, or the macOS Reminders app. They are now visible on Microsoft To-Do app.

The To-Do app from Microsoft automatically synchronizes information from your macOS Reminders, Outlook.com Tasks, and the Desktop Outlook Tasks as soon as it is installed. This helps you in using the app straight from the point it is installed on your macOS. You do non have to copy-paste or blazon previous entries from Reminders app or Outlook Desktop's Tasks.

To provide sync with macOS Reminders, and Outlook Tasks, the To-Do app keeps on checking iCloud-based Reminders, and spider web-based Outlook Tasks. In other words, the To-Practise app is constantly checking iCloud, Outlook.com Tasks, and Outlook Desktop Tasks.

It is not one-way sync. If you update the To-Practice app by calculation some tasks, these new tasks will automatically exist available in macOS Reminders, Outlook.com, and Desktop Outlook. See the prototype in a higher place. In the higher up image, the task "Reverse Auto Sync" was added to Reminders app but information technology also appears on Microsoft To-Do List.

Once you click on a task, the window adds some other column to the interface. This column contains options to prepare due dates, repetition, reminders, etc. As such, two columns (panels) are visible in the default view of To-Do app. The third one appears when you tap or click on whatsoever task. To get back to the default view is not clear at that place. The only solution is to click the '>' character towards the bottom of the Tasks column.

The options to create a new task are self-explanatory. You merely click on "Add together a Task" towards the bottom of the task list to create new entries.

On the downside, I could not find any option for color-coding the tasks in the Microsoft To-Exercise app for macOS. In that location is a star that appears towards the finish of each Job brandish. If you click on that star, the related task volition exist added to Important in the left side pane.

A context menu displays when yous right-click on whatsoever task added to To-Exercise. It too contains options to set a due date, repetitions, and to delete the task.

Clicking My Day pick shows you lot your schedule for the day. It is a handy choice that y'all tin can tweak according to your time: sort out priorities, delete or reschedule the tasks and things similar that.

Microsoft To-Practice vs. macOS Reminders app

Microsoft To-Do app and macOS Reminders app are most the aforementioned. They function in the same fashion and to some extent, the interface of both look same; except that the To-Do app does not accept a night mode, which the Reminders app has (when y'all get Dark Style in macOS Mojave)

The submenu that appears when yous right-click on whatsoever task in Reminders app gives you options to create or delete tasks, schedule the tasks, add reminders, etc., just similar Microsoft To-Do for MacOS. You lot can get the same information and options to customize by clicking on the data symbol next to each job, presented when you hover your cursor over tasks.

The above review of Microsoft To-Do app concludes that To-Do app is almost similar to the existing macOS Reminders app. This is why I retrieve not many MacOS users will substitute Reminders with To-Practice app. But if you do plan to make the switch, you will find information technology easy to use.

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Arun Kumar is a Microsoft MVP alumnus, obsessed with technology, especially the Internet. He deals with the multimedia content needs of preparation and corporate houses. Follow him on Twitter @PowercutIN