Microsoft To Do is a handy personal task management tool. But have you ever tried automating it to boost your productivity even further? IFTTT—“If This Then That” is a no-code tool for task automation. Using IFTTT, you’re able to automate task creation, completion, or cross-scheduling in Microsoft To Do.
Ready to stop your daily manual rinse and repeat on Microsoft To Do? Here’s how to go about it.
Automating Email Notifications for New Microsoft To Do Tasks
You’ll use an IFTTT Applet to automate email notifications to designated email addresses whenever a task is created in Microsoft To Do. This Applet will use a chain of two Actions:
At least, you’ll need an IFTTT Pro subscription of $2.5/month to add more than one Action to an Applet.
Now let’s go through a creative way touse Microsoft To Do productively. To begin, log into your IFTTT account or create an account on theIFTTT websiteif you’ve not already done so. you’re able to also do this via the mobile app on Android or iOS. The steps are similar across platforms.
Then follow these steps:
The created Applet is now running on your IFTTT account. Whenever you add a Google Calendar event, it writes that task to your Microsoft To Do list and emails the listed addresses with the details of the task. This is a greatGoogle Calendar tip to boost productivity.
How to Use IFTTT for Task Replication in Microsoft To Do
You can cross-schedule tasks from another task management app like Asana, Trello, or Clickup on Microsoft To Do.
The Applet below will create a new task on Microsoft To Do whenever a new task is assigned to you from your organization on Asana:
Once deployed, your Applet will execute the Asana-Microsoft To Do workflow accordingly. This can be a helpfulAsana hack to boost your productivity.
How to Automate Task Completion Using IFTTT
Using a different IFTTT Applet, you can automatically email people once you complete a task from the ones added to Microsoft To Do.
You only need to ensure you track the same task list as done above in this new Applet. Here’s how to go about it:
Depending on your workflow, these could also be the emails you notified when creating the task.
Whenever you complete the specified task in Microsoft To Do, your IFTTT Applet will send an email notification to the listed addresses that you’ve completed it.
Besides these examples we’ve provided above, IFTTT also has public Microsoft To Do Applets you can use freely. Feel free to explore these onIFTTT’s Microsoft To Do public Applets page.
Automate Microsoft To Do Without Limitations
IFTTT features over 700 services for automation. The only little limitation with it is that some triggers might be unsupported or not yet available. Despite this limitation, you can still link Applet units creatively to achieve your automation goal.
