![]() If I need someone else to help me with the task, I can invite them. With my approach, I get all the tasks with direct links in the body of my calendar and I can move them around, plan the duration, etc. And because it’s a read-only calendar, I can’t change it manually. As mentioned above, you can display your Planner tasks as an additional calendar on your Outlook calendar, but this has a big problem that makes it unusable for me: They’re all-day events, so I can’t really plan when and how much time I want to spend on them. Somewhat similar is the Outlook integration for Planner, which almost works, but unfortunately not completely for me. Also since recently, To-Do (finally) automatically shows tasks that are due on the current day in the “My day” list in To-Do, which is a great improvement for the way I work, but the “My day” view in Outlook doesn’t show them. ![]() In modern Outlook, we have the aforementioned “My Day” flyout, but that again doesn’t include Planner tasks. So why don’t I use the built-in features? In “classic” Outlook, there was an option to see your To-Do (and native Outlook) tasks below the days in the calendar, but that didn’t include Planner tasks, and I haven’t used classic Outlook in years. Putting my tasks into calendar items at least helps with all these problems. But when they are all more or less equally important (and interesting), I sometimes struggle to choose the first or next task. Last but not least, I sometimes put long blockers on my agenda to make sure I have time to work on different tasks. What has helped me is to have a clear idea of a) how much time I want to spend on something and b) what else I won’t be able to do if I spend more time on it. I usually think I can do more than I can… I am also very bad at time-boxing, but I am in the same boat as probably many others: I usually don’t have enough time to do everything I want to - and need to - do, so to stay at least somewhat in control, I have to make sure I don’t spend too much (more) time on any given task 1. I do it because, as I said, I am a task management fanatic, but for a long time I have struggled to find time for all the tasks I want to do in a week, even if I have planned which day to do it in advance. There are two aspects to why: Why am I doing it, and why am I not using the options already available in the products? If you want to use it for yourself, you can clone my GitHub repo Task2Calendar, set up the required settings and publish the solution containing the flow into your environment manually or with the Power Platform CLI. They are scheduled early in the morning and for one hour, so I have to manually go through the week to set it up exactly how I want it with respect to whatever else is on my agenda, but since I am doing a “planning” session for the upcoming week anyway, this works well for me. ![]() “next week”) and puts calendar entries into my calendar. ![]() I created a Power Automate flow that collects all of my To-Do tasks and all of the Planner tasks assigned to me, checks to see if they are in a given timespan (e.g. So for quite some time, I only planned the tasks for a specific day, but not directly in my calendar, but a colleague who asked me about the topic prompted me to try to fix it. here - and you can add your Planner tasks to your calendar, but both integrations have severe issues as I explain below if you’re interested. Office 365) calendar: There is a “My Day” / To Do view in the calendar - not that well documented, but you can find small pieces of it e.g. But what is currently a bit of a struggle is the integration with the Microsoft 365 (f.k.a. And task management actually works well in the Microsoft portfolio, for me mostly with To-Do (my own stuff) and Planner (company, team, projects). At the end of the week, I usually like to have an idea of my tasks for the next week and how they fit into my agenda. I am a bit (ok, probably a lot) of a task management fanatic.
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