Not to mention that a Planner is generally tied to an Office 365 Groups group and/or Microsoft Teams team, so brings with it a lot of other functionality we can use to work together on.At first, this began as a review of Wunderlist, but as of 2015, Microsoft acquired parent company 6Wunderkinder for an estimated $200 million and morphed it into Microsoft To Do. If I want to share a list of tasks with one or more individuals – I’ll do it with To-Do.īut if I want to work with colleagues on a project or activities in a collaborative fashion – I’ll use Planner. However, in SharePoint we collaborate with team members, with all of them has access to everything in the site. In OneDrive we can share files with other people and collaborate with them while the content resides in our OneDrive location.

I’ll make this as simple as possible: To-Do is to OneDrive as Planner is to SharePoint. Sounds like To-Do can do some of the things Planner can. Or as they are called in Planner checklist items. (Sorry To-Do product team, but this is the reality of killing Wunderlist.) To give it some context I use Office 365 in my personal life (as in full E5 suite) but use Todoist as the task management system for my wife and I as it integrates with Alexa. Any.do, Todoist, and even Wunderlist which is slowly dying under Microsoft’s ownership). I genuinely don’t know why you would be using To-Do for friends or family, given there are a plethora of significantly more advanced task management systems that integrate with others (eg. Microsoft says this is for colleagues, friends or family. This is as simple as it sounds you can now share lists with other people. Why is this needed? Because this week Microsoft To-Do released two new features that overlap with Planner functionality: List Sharing and Steps. This is a super quick and concise post to explain when to use To-Do or Planner in simple terms.

Let me start by saying, there is no infographic here.

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