I want a "Convert to Task Planner" button for emails
Most of our tasks come in via email, a simple button to convert it to a planner task would be imperative, otherwise it renders the planner a little bit pointless for us.
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As an update, our colleagues in To-Do have delivered the ability to create tasks directly from Outlook.com!
To-Do has rolled out the Tasks Pane for Outlook.com’s Mail & Calendar, and is also the new Tasks for Outlook.com! With Planner’s & To-Do’s integration, we hope that To-Do will become a central hub for all of your personal tasks, and that switching to Planner to collaborate with others is seamless!
Here’s more information on the To-Do’s task experience within Outlook: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/using-microsoft-to-do-with-outlook-com-416865a1-0c4d-4e69-af6f-f98ffce3747c
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David Linsley-Hood
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As discussed below, please include the functionality to convert an email into a planner board task, as per the functionality within Trello
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Sarah
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I would appreciate additional ability to add emails and attachments via both ToDo and Planner. Until this functionality is added, Planner is insufficient for the needs of a team working through Asana or Trello.
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Brittany
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Allow for reporting on completed tasks by completion date
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Stefano
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To "close the circle", this is the most important thing. Like this: https://apps4.pro/convert-email-to-task.aspx
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Anonymous
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if it converted everything (The message and attachments) it would be an amazing addition.
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PR
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Perhaps it would be more interesting to add (reverse) integration from to-do to planner.
This is itself looks a benefit and moreover, this way you can lever the existing mail to to-do integration.
To the user , to-do would function as the central hub for personal tasks and planner could be the place where personal tasks get shared into teams. -
Mark Alt
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Great that this has been added. I noticed that the category function was no longer part of To-Do. Any future plans and being able to categorize your tasks / To-do lists?
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michael g
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I propose a linked email instead of email conversion to planner
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Ulrike
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It would be perfect if the attachments of the E-mail are added to the task as well
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A. Dijkstra
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It must be a linked to email, not just copy text from email to create Task.
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Tomas
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It very important. As well it must be a linked to email, not just copy text from email to create Task. I want always have possibility go fast from task to that email and answer.
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Mario Rodrigues
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I completely agree with that integration, so many tasks come to us via email and a bridge with Planner would be perfect.
The functionality would be complete when Planner could export the tasks to a excel to let us to create statistics of our Planner tasks. -
Filipe Alves
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I agree! An integration between outlook and Planner is a must. We need to easily convert emails into planner tasks
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Ian
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I'm looking forward to seeing this reach my tenant!
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Anonymous
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If you want to beat Slack, please add this Button in Outlook, Web 265 Outlook and in Teams. Thank you!
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Phil
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We've tried to migrate to Planner from Trello but really can't justify a full migration until this feature is available.
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Anonymous
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This would be used immediately. It would also help to move my team from an Email-Based service model to a Planner-Based service model.
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Roberta Blank
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Seeing as this doesn't work with work accounts, I think the vast majority of users will not see this update as too beneficial.
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Matt
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GREAT idea for cross task 'pollination' as it were - sometimes you need BOTH and this would be a great enhancement!
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Anonymous
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It would be very helpful to have a To-Do icon in Outlook to replace the Task icon in the lower left corner of the screen.