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by Lulu008

This is a good task management list but it’s for me, it’s missing some glaring features that are crucial to successful task planning and to general success. They include being able to create/ plan/ set a to do list for a future date BEFORE THAT DAY (even being able to do this for JUST the next day would be a huge improvement). So because I can only set the tasks I want to do for a certain date ON THAT DAY, I either have to stay up till at least 12AM on that date to set my tasks for the day and in the order I want or I have to start doing that when I wake up and need to already have my day planned because it’s go, go, go or I could be doing other necessary things. On top of that, the “My Day” completely resets itself daily and keeps zero history of previous tasks you set so you can at least just add them back easily and in similar order since you don’t usually complete everything you plan for a day. No, the random suggestions pop up is not a good enough substitute. It’s sad that this is not available from such a big company like Microsoft so I bailed and found another app that has all these sensible missing features I mentioned and much more that’s developed and maintained by 1 person or so. I’m using that app exclusively now!

by Karid73

I am also a wunderlist fan trying to make the switch. The biggest frustration I have at the moment is when I’m making my grocery list. I always sorted on wunderlist with the importance or the star icon. And then I put the list in order from my routine in the store. I weekly shop for a family of 6 and it takes me about 45 mins with my list in order including driving time. However with this new app I can sort my list by importance but then they won’t let you reorder your items manually also. So when I cancel the sort list by importance it changes it to some other way of sorting. Instead of just leaving it in it’s previous sorted order but making it so I can make manual changes it changes the sorting order. I have no idea which order since I took off any kind of sorting. It’s very frustrating. So it looks like it’s impossible to put my shopping list in order of how I go through the store to make it quicker. Without first writing my list down and then transferring it to this app. When I don’t have my list in order my shopping trip takes quite a bit longer to complete. It’s so frustrating especially with this corona virus situation and me being in the high risk category as I’m expecting. Please update the app to make it more like wunderlist!!!!!!!

by Skiskull

This is like every other notepad app out there, meaning it does nothing helpful for how people put together real life task lists. I use my iPhone’s notepad with checkboxes, and manually update tasks for everything i do. Some are daily, some are long-term. So of course a real to do list app would be able to organize that right? And allow daily tasks to reoccur and be completed daily, alongside long-term ones. Well this app, like all the others, doesn’t.

You can make tasks reoccur... but they won’t show up in ‘My Day’ by default. BUT after you complete one for the day (eg. Brush teeth), it’ll just reappear randomly in the list with subtext of ‘tomorrow’, which is beyond useless, beyond unintuitive or logical, and clutters the entire list. Then the whole ‘My Day’ feature gets pretty dumb if tasks can’t autopopulate there. All in all, giving Microsoft the responsibility to make something intuitive is always bound to fail, so this is really just like every other worthless, weakly supported, temporarily-named, overlapping functionality MS product out there. Win10’s, and to a lesser extent the Office suite is fine (necessary evils really, you can’t escape Windows or Office), but don’t let that fool you into thinking ANYTHING else they ever introduce in their ecosystem is useful or useable.