Microsoft To-Do Coming to the Mac on June 17

Microsoft is bringing its To-Do service to the Mac as a dedicated app. The company has been improving Microsoft To-Do across all platforms over the past year or so, and an official Mac app has been long overdue.

Microsoft To-Do users with a Mac were forced to use the web app of the service, which doesn’t really get as many frequent updates like the Windows 10 or mobile apps. The new Microsoft To-Do app for Mac will hopefully offer a better alternative, which Microsoft has been beta testing for a little while.

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The company today announced that the new Mac app will be available on June 17, which is only about a week away. The new app is already available on the App Store for pre-order, so if you do sign-up, you will get notified when the app is actually available for download. From the App Store screenshots app, the new To-Do app for Mac looks really nice, too. You can sign-up to get notified when the app is available here. 

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  • yoshi

    Premium Member
    10 June, 2019 - 3:25 pm

    <p>I'm still waiting for it to show up on my Outlook.com.</p><p><br></p><p>My wife and daughter, both free accounts, have it. My Office 365 Personal does not.</p>

    • Robert_Wood

      10 June, 2019 - 3:34 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#434464">In reply to yoshi:</a></em></blockquote><p>Neither does mine. It still has "tasks" but that's it. </p>

      • dontbe evil

        11 June, 2019 - 1:10 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#434466">In reply to Robert_Wood:</a></em></blockquote><p>in my outlook.com if I click on tasks goes to todo … already for months</p>

        • yoshi

          Premium Member
          11 June, 2019 - 7:01 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#434524">In reply to dontbe_evil:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yes, I have this as well. I should have been more clear – I do not have the drag-and-drop feature yet in Outlook.com. To-Do has its own pane with this, instead of having to go to another site for it.</p>

    • Orin

      11 June, 2019 - 6:50 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#434464">In reply to yoshi:</a></em></blockquote><p>What happens if you go to to-do.microsoft.com?</p>

  • ommoran

    Premium Member
    10 June, 2019 - 4:15 pm

    <p><em>"Microsoft To-Do users with a Mac were forced to use the web app…"</em></p><p><br></p><p>There were Mac users of To-Do?</p><p><br></p><p>I'm still waiting to be able to e-mail a task to To-Do. When is that coming… or did I miss it?</p>

    • Paul Avvento

      Premium Member
      10 June, 2019 - 11:19 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#434477">In reply to ommoran:</a></em></blockquote><p>If you flag it it'll appear in to-do.</p>

    • will

      Premium Member
      13 June, 2019 - 10:22 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#434477">In reply to ommoran:</a></em></blockquote><p>Also coming soon is better integration inside of Outlook for iOS to quickly create ToDo's from emails.</p><p>However, the new reminders update for macOS and iOS looks good as well with natural language support and an improved UI.</p>

  • james_wilson

    10 June, 2019 - 5:12 pm

    <p>I'm not a programmer but i'm still wondering why this is such a hard thing to do?</p>

    • curtisspendlove

      11 June, 2019 - 6:49 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#434484">In reply to James_Wilson:</a></em></blockquote><p>It isn't necessarily hard. It's time-consuming.</p><p><br></p><p>Programmers are expensive. Hard to justify the project cost for a small group of users. I can't imagine the number of users using Microsoft To-Do on Mac is a huge number. (In fact, I'd guess this is probably a web-framework–such as Electron–based app and not a "native" one. But I'll be curious to check it out when it's released. I'm honestly a bit confused why the'd invest in a Mac app instead of pushing for a PWA, since MS is very PWA-happy at the moment.)</p>

  • Paul Avvento

    Premium Member
    10 June, 2019 - 6:48 pm

    <p>This is surprising to me. I love the app but it strikes me as a prime use for a PWA instead of maintaining 5 different versions (4 apps and web). Either way I'm glad I'll be able to use this at work instead of the website.</p>

  • dontbe evil

    11 June, 2019 - 1:10 am

    <p>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Microsoft To-Do users with a Mac were forced to use the web app of the service, which doesn’t really get as many frequent updates like the </span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Windows 10</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or mobile apps"</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">strange for a dead platform</span></p>

  • itclasses

    11 June, 2019 - 7:51 am

    <p>thanks </p>

  • lwetzel

    Premium Member
    11 June, 2019 - 11:45 am

    <p>I just wish the would build the app to do what other type apps do. I use Todoist and would really like to shift to To-Do but it can't handle the load.</p>

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