多年来，奇妙清单(Wunderlist)一直是最受欢迎和知名的在线待办事项应用程序之一。它由 Christian Reber于 2011年创立，2013 年4 月发布了(April)Pro版本。
2015年6(June)月，微软(Microsoft)收购了Wunderlist ，这是(Wunderlist)微软(Microsoft)自己的待办事项应用程序（简称为Microsoft To Do）的直接竞争对手。
当时，奇妙清单(Wunderlist)拥有令人印象深刻的 1300 万用户群。这位作者就是其中之一。
旧微软待办事项
当微软(Microsoft)首次收购Wunderlist时，与之相比，微软(Microsoft)的产品（待办事项）相形见绌。Wunderlist Pro中提供的大多数更高级的功能在微软(Microsoft)待办 中都找不到。
从那时起，微软(Microsoft)逐渐将这些高级功能整合到微软(Microsoft)待办中，希望在他们关闭奇妙清单(Wunderlist)时，所有用户都愿意迁移过来。
今天，微软待办是(Microsoft)奇妙清单(Wunderlist)曾经的一切，甚至更多。在此微软(Microsoft)待办评论中，你将了解应用程序中的所有功能以及如何使用它们。
微软待办评论
当你第一次打开微软(Microsoft)待办帐户时，该应用看起来并没有什么特别之处，但一旦你开始使用它，你就会发现其中隐藏着一些功能。
让我们探索左侧导航窗格，一次一个部分。
- 我的一天(My Day)：您从列表中分配今天需要完成的最重要的任务。
- 重要(Important)：标记重要项目，无论它们何时到期。
- 已计划(Planned)：您的所有任务，按到期日期排序。
- 分配给您(Assigned to you)：查看其他微软(Microsoft)待办用户使用您的电子邮件地址分配给您的任务。
- 任务(Tasks)：您使用Microsoft 任务应用(Microsoft Tasks app)添加的任何任务。
- 列表(Lists)：左侧导航面板的整个底部包括您为组织任务而创建的所有列表。
每当您在左侧导航窗格中选择任何视图时，中心面板都会列出任务。右侧也可能包含一些项目。例如，在“我的一天”(My Day)视图中，您可以选择窗口右上角的“ 今天”来查看按日期组织的所有到期或已设置提醒的任务。(Today)
计划中的部分
当您在左侧导航窗格中选择已计划(Planned)时，您将看到今天到期的所有任务以及即将完成的任务。这是你可能会在微软(Microsoft)待办中花费大部分时间的地方，因此值得先探索一下。
当您将任务组织到各自的列表中时（我们将在下面介绍），您将分配任务到期日期和提醒。任何有截止日期或今天提醒的内容都将显示在此处的“今天”(Today)部分下。
微软(Microsoft)待办中使用的方法的有趣之处在于，订单并非每天都严格执行。它实际上有点遵循完成(Getting Things Done)工作( GTD ) “现在、下一步(Next)、以后”的模型。
这些部分没有以这种方式具体命名，但您可以看到概念是相同的。您将在日常工作中专注于今天。(Today)如果你完成了一切，你可以从Tomorrow开始，或者从其他两个部分中的任何后续任务中选择。
我的一天部分
此时您可能会想，您将始终使用“计划(Planned)”部分并从上到下工作。
但在现实世界中，这是行不通的。特别是如果你有一个月后到期的任务，你必须随着时间的推移工作一点点。这些是您可能通过选择任务右侧的星号 标记为重要的任务。(Important)
关键是，在一个适合你的时间表上，可能是每天早上喝咖啡的时候，或者每天晚上在你准备好下班回家之前，你可以查看下一个你真正想要处理的任务列表，并将它们添加到我的一天(My Day)部分。
您可以通过右键单击任务并选择Add to My Day来执行此操作。
然后，当您准备好开始工作时，只需选择我的一天(My Day)并开始处理您的列表。
您可以放心，您正在处理您想要完成的最关键的项目。
创建新列表和任务
您如何在Microsoft ToDo中添加所有这些列表和任务？列表是有组织的任务的集合。它们是让您的任务按项目、公司、主题或您想要组织它们的任何方式分组的好方法。
要创建新列表，只需向下滚动到左侧导航面板的底部，然后选择+ New list字段。键入列表的名称，然后按Enter。
此列表将显示在左侧导航面板中，左侧有一个蓝色列表图标。例如，下面显示了Health、Family和Home的三个列表。
要在列表中创建新任务，只需选择+ Add a task链接并开始输入。完成后按Enter。
要编辑任务详细信息，只需选择任务，右侧将打开一个新面板。
您可以将以下所有详细信息添加到微软(Microsoft)待办中的任何任务。
- 添加(Add)完成任务所涉及的各个子任务（步骤）。
- 将任务添加到我的一天(My Day)部分。
- 为任务创建提醒。
- 设置截止日期。
- 将任务放在重复的计划中。
- 将类别应用于任务。
- 附上一个文件。
- 添加注释或评论。
根据你的到期时间或设置提醒的时间，微软(Microsoft)待办将自动将任务分配到导航窗格顶部的适当计划文件夹之一。
创建任务组
微软(Microsoft)待办中最强大的功能之一是任何优秀的待办应用都应该包含的功能。那是任务列表的文件夹或组。
考虑一个场景，您正在开展一项新的副业，购买、翻新和转售旧房。对于这类业务，您需要一份房地产购买任务清单、另一份装修任务清单，等等。
要将所有这些列表组合在一起，您将首先创建至少两个这些任务列表。
然后，选择新(New)列表字段右侧带有方框和 + 的小图标。这是创建组(Create group)图标。
输入组的名称并按Enter。然后，只需单击并将您创建的两个任务列表拖动到任务列表组中。当您看到组内出现一个蓝色虚线框时，您将知道您已将其拖得足够远。
完成后，您将看到包含两个任务列表的组。您可以随时通过选择组名称右侧的箭头来折叠或打开该组。
现在，每当您添加新任务列表时，只需将其拖到任何现有组中即可将其添加到该组中。
组不仅是组织所有任务列表的好方法，也是保持左侧导航窗格整洁的完美方法。即使您有数百个列表，您也可以将它们全部折叠到有组织的组中，这样您的左侧导航窗格就不会失控。
你应该使用微软吗？
今天有很多在线应用程序可以用来管理你的日常任务。有些人选择任何流行的待办事项列表应用程序(popular to-do list apps)。其他人可能会采用非传统方法，使用Trello(like Trello)或Evernote之类的东西来管理他们的时间。
老实说，在找到最适合您的系统之前，可能需要数年时间尝试多个系统。
在测试了几乎所有可用的待办事项应用后，我们可以自信地说，微软(Microsoft)待办拥有您尽可能高效地管理时间所需的所有重要功能。
A Microsoft To Do Review: Why You Should Switch Right Now
For many years, Wunderlist waѕ one of the most popular and well-known to-do apps оnline. It was founded by Chriѕtian Reber in 2011, with a Pro version released in April of 2013.
In June of 2015, Microsoft acquired Wunderlist, a direct competitor of Microsoft’s own to-do app known simply as Microsoft To Do.
At the time, Wunderlist had an impressive user base of 13 million users. This author was one of them.
The Old Microsoft To Do
When Microsoft first acquired Wunderlist, Microsoft’s offering (To Do) paled badly in comparison. Most of the more advanced features offered in Wunderlist Pro were nowhere to be seen in Microsoft To Do.
Since then, Microsoft worked gradually on integrating those advanced features into Microsoft To Do, in the hopes that by the time they shut down Wunderlist, all of its users would have willingly migrated over.
Today, Microsoft To Do is everything Wunderlist ever was, and more. In this Microsoft To Do review, you’ll learn about all of the features in the app and how to use them.
A Microsoft To Do Review
When you first open a Microsoft To Do account, the app won’t look like anything special, but once you start using it you’ll find that there are features hidden throughout.
Let’s explore the left navigation pane, one section at a time.
- My Day: Where you assign the most important tasks from your lists that you need to get finished today.
- Important: Flag important items, no matter when they’re due.
- Planned: All of your tasks, sorted in order by date due.
- Assigned to you: See tasks that other Microsoft To Do users have assigned to you using your email address.
- Tasks: Any tasks you’ve added using the Microsoft Tasks app.
- Lists: The entire bottom of the left navigation panel includes all of the lists you’ve created to organize your tasks.
The center panel is where the tasks will be listed whenever you select any view in the left navigation pane. The right side may also contain some items. For example, in the My Day view, you can select Today at the upper right of the window to see all tasks that are either due or you’ve set a reminder for, organized by date.
The Planned Section
When you select Planned in the left navigation pane, you’ll see all tasks due today, as well as upcoming tasks. This is where you’ll likely spend most of your time in Microsoft To Do, so it’s worth exploring first.
As you organize tasks into their individual lists (which we’ll get to below), you’ll assign tasks due dates and reminders. Anything with a due date or reminder of today, will show up under the Today section here.
What’s interesting about the approach used in Microsoft To Do is that the order doesn’t strictly go day by day. It actually follows somewhat of a Getting Things Done (GTD) “Now, Next, Later” model.
The sections aren’t specifically named this way, but you can see the concept is the same. You’ll focus on Today during your daily work. If you get through everything, you can start on Tomorrow, or pick from any of the later tasks in the other two sections.
The My Day Section
You might be thinking at this point that you’d just always use the Planned section and work from top to bottom.
But in the real world, this doesn’t work. Especially if you have tasks due a month from now that you have to work on a little bit over time. These are the kind of tasks you might have marked as Important by selecting the star at the right side of the task.
The point is that on a schedule that works for you, maybe each morning during your coffee or each evening before you’re ready to head home from work, you look through the next list of tasks you really want to tackle and add those to the My Day section.
You do this by right-clicking the task and selecting Add to My Day.
Then, when you’re ready to start working, just select My Day and start working through your list.
You can rest assured you’re working on the most critical items you wanted to accomplish.
Creating New Lists and Tasks
How do you get all of these lists and tasks added in Microsoft ToDo? Lists are a collection of organized tasks. They’re a great way to keep your tasks grouped by project, company, theme, or whatever way you want to organize them.
To create a new list, just scroll down to the bottom of the left navigation panel and select the + New list field. Type the name of the list, and press Enter.
This list will show up in the left navigation panel with a blue list icon to the left of it. For example, there are three lists displayed below for Health, Family, and Home.
To create a new task inside a list, just select the + Add a task link and start typing. Press Enter when you’re done.
To edit task details, just select the task and a new panel will open on the right.
You can add all of the following details to any task in Microsoft To Do.
- Add individual sub-tasks (steps) involved in completing the task.
- Add the task to the My Day section.
- Create a reminder for the task.
- Set a due date.
- Put the task on a recurring schedule.
- Apply a category to the task.
- Attach a file.
- Add a note or comments.
Depending on when you’ve made it due or set reminders, Microsoft To Do will automatically assign the task into one of the appropriate scheduling folders at the top of the navigation pane.
Creating Task Groups
One of the most powerful features in Microsoft To Do is a feature that any good to-do app out there should include. That is a folder or group for task lists.
Consider a scenario where you’re launching a new side business buying, renovating, and reselling old houses. For this kind of business you’d need a list of tasks for your real estate purchases, another list of tasks for your renovations, and so on.
To group all of those lists together, you’ll first create at least two of those task lists.
Then, select the small icon with a box and a + to the right of the New list field. This is the Create group icon.
Type the name of the group and press Enter. Then, just click and drag the two task lists you’ve created into the task list group. You’ll know you’ve dragged it far enough when you see a blue dotted box appear inside the group.
Once you’re done, you’ll see the group with both task lists included under it. You can collapse or open this group any time you like by selecting the arrow to the right of the group name.
Now, any time you add a new task list, just drag it into any of your existing groups to add it to that group.
Groups are not only a great way to organize all your task lists, but it’s also a perfect way to keep your left navigation pane clean. Even if you have hundreds of lists, you can collapse them all into organized groups so your left navigation pane doesn’t get out of control.
Should You Use Microsoft To Do?
There are a lot of apps online today you can use to manage your daily tasks. Some people opt for any of the popular to-do list apps. Other people may take a non-traditional approach by using something like Trello or Evernote to manage their time.
In all honesty, it can take years to try several systems before you find the one that’s a perfect match for you.
Having tested almost every to-do app available, we can confidently say that Microsoft To Do has every important feature you’d need to manage your time as productively and efficiently as possible.
