For Microsoft To Do this uses the Graph To Do API, which means you get rich tasks including due dates, status, labels and sub-tasks for complex tasks from services like Trello that have checklists (the sync options are similar for Todoist). You can stick with the defaults when setting up a connection or use the friendly interface to pick different options in dropdowns for where to look for tasks, which list to put them in, how to name tasks so it’s obvious where they come from, and what to do when they’re deleted or marked as complete on either end of the connection. You don’t even have to make a new account on the service - just sign in with a To Do or Todoist account, authorise Pleexy to access your information, and start connecting to the other services you use.Įven the defaults give you richer options for syncing OneNote into To Do than Microsoft offers in its own products. There’s no client to install: you use the Pleexy website to set up connections to sync tasks. Pleexy promises two-way synchronisation of tasks and task status for Microsoft To Do and Todoist with a short but expanding list of services that generate tasks: Asana, Basecamp, Evernote, Gmail, Jira, Monday, OneNote, Outlook, Trello and Zendesk (with Bitbucket, ClickUp, Confluence, GitHub, MindMeister and Salesforce promised soon). Pleexy is simple to get started with, but has a fairly select list of integrations. Microsoft Flow, Zapier and IFTT all have integrations with various task management tools, but they tend to offer one-way connections for triggering actions rather than two-way sync.

If you do have a single favourite, you will still often end up having to manage tasks inside other systems as well, whether that’s OneNote, Project, Salesforce or GitHub. You might pick one to use but have another as standard at work, or you might want to use different tools for major projects and individual tasks. There are dozens of task management and to-do list apps around, and you won’t always use only one.

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