{"id":5200,"date":"2020-08-26T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:27:59","slug":"outlook-ios-app-adds-create-a-task-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/outlook-ios-app-adds-create-a-task-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook iOS App adds Create a Task Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yey! Microsoft finally did it. They&#8217;ve added a <em>Create a Task<\/em> command to their Outlook iOS App. This is a critical app feature I like to see in all apps that my 1MTD and MYN readers use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>To get to it, open an email. Then: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">1: Click the three dot menu as shown below, and then <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2: Tap <em>Create a Task<\/em> in the drop down menu (also shown below). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then tap <em>return <\/em>(after editing the task name if you wish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/images\/create-task-outlook-app.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This creates a task in the Microsoft To Do task list<\/strong> linked to this Exchange account. And it should show up in the Desktop Outlook task list for that account, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new task in To Do, <del>the entire message body of the email is copied into the notes field of <\/del>, a link to the original emails is copied into the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My pleasure with this new feature is only tempered by two questions: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Why did it take so long for Microsoft to add this feature?<\/li><li>When are they going to add the ability to assign and see <em>Categories<\/em> in the Outlook mobile app?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t checked the Android Outlook app to see if this feature was added there too. Let me know if you see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yey! Microsoft finally did it. They&#8217;ve added a Create a Task command to their Outlook iOS App. This is a critical app feature I like to see in all apps that my 1MTD and MYN readers use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}