To Do: ideal for the individual, To Do helps keep track of personal tasks – across both work and life – organizing and prioritizing their day with intelligent suggestions.

Our hero endpoints for personal task management are:

Integration: wherever a task experience exists in Microsoft apps and services, it will connect to and feed into one of two key task-management endpoints – To Do for individual task management, or Planner for team task management.

Intelligence: tasks will leverage the intelligent services underpinning Microsoft 365, such as the Microsoft Graph or MyAnalytics, to proactively help users manage and prioritize their workload.

Coherence: tasks experiences across Microsoft 365 will have a consistent and familiar experience anywhere they occur, to enable action, navigation, and discovery by users.

Our vision for tasks in Microsoft 365 revolves around these core principles: The presence of tasks in Microsoft 365 is already extensive, and will be a big investment area moving forward, as we work to connect our tasks experiences across Microsoft products and services.

To address this need, we’ve layered on tasks as a functionality to help users manage and prioritize their work.

While all these apps and services are helping people and teams be more productive than ever before, they also introduce new challenges: How do we cut through the noise? How do we manage our day effectively and make sure nothing slips through the cracks? Many of these tasks are generated from Microsoft’s portfolio of productivity and collaboration tools: Office docs, Planner plans, emails, chats, the list goes on and on. Whether in your personal life or work, as an individual or as a team, in any industry or type of role – everyone deals with tasks every day. With the recent announcement of Tasks in Teams, we want to share our broader vision for how we integrate tasks across Microsoft 365.

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