ToDo, Flagged Emails and opening in Outlook Desktop

After much disappointment with the lack of integration between the Outlook desktop app and ToDo, I switched to TickTick for my GTD flow. The app is better than MS ToDo in terms of flexibility. To be honest, after a while using TickTick, I now feel that ToDo is an excellent to-do list app, while TickTick is a more mature GTD app, which is probably what I was looking for.

Although there is a nice add-in in Outlook for TickTick (and it works smoothly in transforming an email into a task in TickTick), it still does not allow to link back to the original email in Outlook, which is again a shame.

It is all so frustrating that MS cannot prioritise a decent GTD app that integrates well with its Office365 ecosystem (Outlook and Teams, mostly). The idea of flagging emails and making them available in ToDo is excellent, but then why not be able to come back to the email in the Outlook app? So much needless friction is just irritating.

So I am out, but still unhappy.

Hello Diane,

It's been 4 years, **** is the fix for this??? This cannot be so hard to fix. Maybe MS should try putting us customers first, instead of trying to force everyone on to the God awful Outlook web.

Still awaiting for ... i don't think this is very hard to change it ..

I forgotten use Microsoft ToDo and now use Outlook embedded ToDo ... sad

Organizations don't necessarily have web mail enabled. I use the web client for my personal email sometimes, but it would not be suitable for work. Seems like once a year I get excited about using To Do and then rediscover why I don't. Using the first bit of an email to search for it in Outlook is cumbersome.

I understand the fix is difficult, but people are not going to stop using the thick client no matter how much you want them to.

Plus the web versions suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Makes no sense that you would be in Desktop To Do with Desktop Outlook open yet the link opens in the crappy web version. Who thinks this up?!?