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Tasks (To-dos) & Notes in WP7

As far as I can work out, WP7 will not support Outlook Notes and Tasks (To-Dos) or the synchronization of Notes & Tasks.
As I understand it, synch of email, calendar & contacts will happen via your Windows Live account (Windows Live will be an Exchange server soon), which can then synch to Outlook using the Windows Live Connector, but Notes and Tasks are absent from this setup.
There will be no native Notes or Tasks apps on WP7. There will be One Note, but that's a different animal and you have to purchase the PC version to be able to see your OneNotes on your PC.
Unfortunately, for me at least, Tasks is the app I use most on my phone. Since WM5.0, Microsoft crippled Tasks by removing the ability to filter out Tasks with a future Start Date, so I moved to using Pocket Informant which provides this essential feature.
Pocket Informant will not be developed for WM7 if news I've read on the Net is correct. This may be partly due to WM7 having no Tasks database, thus forcing any developer to create their own database engine for Tasks, and in any case there would be no synch with Outlook.
If all this is true, it will prevent me from moving over to WM7. My personal and business life revolve around my task list and I'd be lost without it.
Does anyone have any more information on this, especially any that shows me to be wrong?

Don't know about tasks and notes, but you can connect to any Exchange account you want.

http://www.ahead-app.com/

vangrieg said:
http://www.ahead-app.com/
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impressive app!
clear, simple! exactly what i need
i hope other apps will be as good as this one (maybe i should start developing wp7 apps too..)

warenbe said:
impressive app!
clear, simple! exactly what i need
i hope other apps will be as good as this one (maybe i should start developing wp7 apps too..)
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yes you should

yup but i've no good idea right now

warenbe said:
yup but i've no good idea right now
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if i think of something ill let you know

That Ahead app is more like a Project manager than a simple task manager. It only seems to support priorities called "Urgent", "Later", which doesn't tie in with Outlook's three priority levels. Also it only supports a due date, but no start date. Start date is really important, as a recurring annual task to get my car MOTed should have a start date of a couple of weeks before its due, so it doesn't appear in my task list all year round. It also needs to support lots of different types of recurrance - yearly, monthly, every weekday, every 2nd Friday of the month etc etc.
Also, Ahead App doesn't do Notes or synch them.
Whilst I appreciate the link, I'm afraid it's not what I'm looking for. All I need is an app that replicates all the functionality of Outlook's Tasks and Notes and synchs them.
I can't believe this functionality, which is present by default in every version of Windows Mobile, will be absent from WP7.
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed these two essentials appear in the final release of WP7, otherwise I'll have to stick with WM6.5 and Pocket Informant until they finally do appear, whenever that may be.

Jim Coleman said:
Whilst I appreciate the link, I'm afraid it's not what I'm looking for.
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Yes, I know. These tasks also won't be synced with Exchange and can't trigger alerts on the phone, so that's not what I need either.
This is very unfortunate, but neither the iPhone nor Android have tasks, so it looks like a trend these days.

tell me if i'm wrong, but with wp7 we will not be able to create an app wich can copy tasks from outlook?
if yes, we have to create a service wich send tasks on internet and then retrieve them on the phone...

Yes, that's right, you will need to install a connector on your desktop to sync tasks with Outlook or have an intermediary server to sync with Exchange for now.

vangrieg said:
This is very unfortunate, but neither the iPhone nor Android have tasks, so it looks like a trend these days.
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Google have started to integrate Tasks into Google Calendar, but thus far it is extremely basic and again doesn't incorporate Start Dates. But I think the direction Google is moving in is to incorporate Tasks into Android and use Exchange Synch.
Notes is another issue though.
IPhone is.......well, let's just skip over that one.

Jim Coleman said:
Google have started to integrate Tasks into Google Calendar
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Actually, Microsoft has done that already on Live Calendar, so maybe that's the direction they'll go with WP7, too. When I asked the Office guy directly about Tasks he said "can't comment at this time".

The Answer to Outlook Tasks and Notes
The Answer to Outlook Tasks and Notes
is
1)wait for WP7 Windows Phone 7 to get up to speed
2) WM6.5 Windows Mobile 6.5
run it on as fast a processor as possible (like maybe the HD2)
(no keyboard but you can get used to it)
with as big a display as possible, again the HD2 (same pixels as the tilt2 but more room)
the latest manila / sense, 2.5 ish is now nice and the vendors are supporting the download
co0kies home today v2 is looking very nice, tasks on the home screen.
we who use Outlook for calendar, contacts, notes, tasks
have a single app sync, and we want it not to go away.
maybe we can live with getting exchange accounts, but we're really hoping for a wm7 windows phone 7 activesync.
until this gets in shape . . .
we wait.
looking @ manila/sense with co0kies home today on a fast cpu with a big display,
we're not waiting in that much pain . . .

After almost 17 years on AT&T I moved to T-Mobile
I just got so tired of AT&T lagging on the vendor relationships with HTC and Microsoft.
I upgraded the TILT2 to the latest rom so that I could Finally get tasks on the home page
(I am a long time a complete Outlook user, Requiring Notes, Task, Calendar, Contacts, with a single simple complete sync to the phone).
Co0kies Home Today 2 is marvelous!
The rom started crashing every few hours
CHT put manilla/sense over the memory edge.
it too 45 seconds for manilla to return from sending an sms.
AT&T has no solution.
The HD2 has no keyboard (something i was very worried about)
I dove in.
WHAT A CHAMP this HD2 is.
clock Twice the speed of the Tilt2
tons more memory
a screen of a size fitting the number of pixels available
and after a few days, guess what . . . i am over my keyboard phobia ! ! !
phone number xfer in just a few of hours.
knock on wood, nice transition so far!
only irritating thing is tmomail.net
seems too eager to convert to MMSs, just because they're over 160 bytes.
(small point, that)

Notes

After using WM for 5 years, i realize that i do use Notes very much for all sorts of reasons.
Now that i'm using the Desire, what do you guys use to replace Notes from WM? I've searched the Market and found several types. Any recommendations?
Just to ask....any way to sync this "Notes" from Desire to Office Outlook 2007?

I used Color Note for a while. It was good, it also has a widget to put on your home screen. But recently a HTC widget Notes was released which is more than enough for me. Although it has 2 little annoying thins:
1. the widget takes up one whole home screen
2. you can't edit an already written note
But I use it nonetheless It lets you draw (just like WM Notes did) although the space is quite small. Color note does not have this function.
As for the second question - I don't know about syncing your notes, I don't use Outlook.

evernote. utterly great.

Would definitely agree with Evernote, as this is just a cloud service, and can use on nearly all platforms so future proof! Sync my laptop, desktop, desire, and iPhone It's great!

Thanks for the info guys I'll give those a try and see which one best suits me

i gave up with teh whole notes syncing thing so instead of changed all my outlook notes into tasks and sync with google tasks. syncs perfectly with android calendar (google)

i use 3banana.. give it a try, its not bad

nitronotes will allow you to sync your existing outlook notes ... it's clunky but it works ...
http://groups.google.com/group/nitrodesk/web/nitronote-notes-syncing

Try Springpad: http://www.40tech.com/2010/04/20/springpad-vs-evernote-it-might-be-better/
Even though Evernote provides slightly different functionality to it (and is excellent).
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Suggest me a Tasks app

What features I need:
Must have a reminder, set date and time
Should be FAST, clean and easy to use.
I tried Todo with alerts. Not very fast, 1 of my task got disappeared, don't know what happened. Overall, its average.
I would prefer an ads-free free version, if available.

lamborg said:
What features I need:
Must have a reminder, set date and time
Should be FAST, clean and easy to use.
I tried Todo with alerts. Not very fast, 1 of my task got disappeared, don't know what happened. Overall, its average.
I would prefer an ads-free free version, if available.
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If you don't need it to support Exchange, I'd recommend giving "So what's today" a shot. It's clean, easy to use and gets the job perfectly done.

What Im missing here? You have integrated tasks in your calendar where you can set reminder?

Loco5150 said:
What Im missing here? You have integrated tasks in your calendar where you can set reminder?
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Thats what I use. Love it.

I also use the calendar to do list. Works great! Integrated reminders, etc.

stock calendar app?

svtfmook said:
stock calendar app?
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Yes the calendar built in to the OS. When you open it, swipe over to the "to do" list. Its an excellent place to create quick, clean, reminders.

Yes the integrated to-do list is good. Clean & fast. The only thing I would ask MS is that they would add active task count to the calendar tile... Please MS please

I also use Agenda live tile, which shows your next four appointments from the calendar on a live tile

Inbuilt calendar app is best.

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What Im missing here? You have integrated tasks in your calendar where you can set reminder?
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Unfortunately the Tasks from Windows Live do not support recurring tasks. If that is OK with you then you don't have to look any further.
Same goes with Google Tasks.
I ended up using To-Do Tasks. It is a paid app and it can work with Toodledo. It can also use tasks with a local (phone) database but when I tried that the repeat feature was not available.

Fuzzy John said:
Unfortunately the Tasks from Windows Live do not support recurring tasks. If that is OK with you then you don't have to look any further.
Same goes with Google Tasks.
I ended up using To-Do Tasks. It is a paid app and it can work with Toodledo. It can also use tasks with a local (phone) database but when I tried that the repeat feature was not available.
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FOr the recurring element, isnt that where the actual calendar comes into play? Outlook of the PC doesnt have a recurring tasks feature....

morpheus1982 said:
FOr the recurring element, isnt that where the actual calendar comes into play? Outlook of the PC doesnt have a recurring tasks feature....
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First... Outlook on the PC does support recurring tasks, with a very strong subset of recurrence options. I use Outlook 2007 and the Recurrence button is right in the middle of the ribbon when you open a task.
I know some people who use the calendar for tasks. While you can get by doing it I do not believe the calendar is the proper place. The calendar is suited for appointments. The only time time the calendar meets tasks is when it overlays the tasks on the calendar view(s) you have.

Fuzzy John said:
First... Outlook on the PC does support recurring tasks, with a very strong subset of recurrence options. I use Outlook 2007 and the Recurrence button is right in the middle of the ribbon when you open a task.
I know some people who use the calendar for tasks. While you can get by doing it I do not believe the calendar is the proper place. The calendar is suited for appointments. The only time time the calendar meets tasks is when it overlays the tasks on the calendar view(s) you have.
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"Removing" nonsense post.

Yes but recurring tasks wasnt what the OP listed that he needs.
Especially clean and fast is just what the built in task manager is.
I also tried few apps from the marketplace. To-do Tasks was the last one, but even though I paid to get it I deleted it. I hated the fact that you always have to manually sync it.
Other few task apps I tried from the marketplace were too slow.
I like the built in tasks app really much. It is missing few features and the biggest one for me is actually that the calendar tile does not show active task count.
I tried to test and set a recurring task from my outlook (I have exchange O365, so I dont sync to live), but I didnt see that option in Outlook 2010?
EDIT: OK Im blind, I just found it. Well see what happens when I set it.

Outlook Sync?

Any suggestions for an app that will sync MS Outlook (Calanedar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, etc) from an XP/Win7 machine? I wouldn't cry if it also replaced the native Calendar and Contact apps... which imo, are pretty weak. Not concerned w/ email.
Btw, new to the Nexus 7... this is one cool machine!
Thanks,
Geoff

Calendar, Contacts, and Mail (if you do want it anyway) can be synced natively through Android, with the AOSP e-mail app.
For the other exchange tools, you could find one by searching Exchange ActiveSync on the Play Store.
In the odd case that this WASN'T your answer, and you aren't using Outlook for Corporate purposes, I'd imagine the way to sync your contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes would be to export them through Outlook itself and importing them into Google's services.
Contact export is simple in outlook, all major mail clients support import/export anyway. Calendar I'm not sure if you can set a URL to synchronize on Google Calendar or not, but you could probably export it, too. Same with tasks, and notes, but if those two fail you could probably copy and paste.

Microsoft office is currently in the works for android and iOS believe it or not. Release early next year.
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Thanks Asovse1. I'm not Exchange/Corporate based. Searching the app store, I hit on the likes of VC Organizer, mOffice, Android-Sync, Local Sync, Deja Office, etc and was hoping for some user reviews.
Wonder if MS Office will include Outlook? or just the Word, Excel, Powerpoint components?
Geoff

I use Touchdown for our company Exchange users on Android. It integrates fully and synchronizes with Exchange and Outlook good. Closest to Balackberry Exchange services on the market.

gcorth said:
Thanks Asovse1. I'm not Exchange/Corporate based. Searching the app store, I hit on the likes of VC Organizer, mOffice, Android-Sync, Local Sync, Deja Office, etc and was hoping for some user reviews.
Wonder if MS Office will include Outlook? or just the Word, Excel, Powerpoint components?
Geoff
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I have used VC Organizer Pro. Its been a while though. I originally bought it because it syncs everything including tasks. I have since moved on to Linux, gmail and the native Google tasks.
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I use this on a daily basis MyPhoneExplorer for Outlook on XP/Droid on JellyBean combo which puts a client on both the PC and Phone/Tablet. It just works.

I'm using Moxier Mail for about 2 years now and it is one of the best Microsoft sync tools available. It is syncing everything you listed in the first post.
The only draw back is that is quite expensive (it is by far the most expensive app. I have on my android devices ).
This is how it looks on my N7 ...

Is there an app for this

Hi
Does anyone know if there is an app or software for the task I need to do. I have a Samsung s3 mini I use the calender app on it to keep a track of my rota, I would like to synch this calendar with the outlook calendar on my computer and the synch this with calendar on my nexus 7 is this possible. I'm currently trialling my phone explorer but it is duplicating all my entries and I can't solve the issue, so wondered if there is any other way. Don't really want to use the Google calendar.

might be way to go
Has anyone had any dealings with jorte calender, this looks an easier way for what I want, can load it on tablet and phone then synch them using there cloud system just won't have a copy in outlook, but its not end of world.

steve50 said:
Has anyone had any dealings with jorte calender, this looks an easier way for what I want, can load it on tablet and phone then synch them using there cloud system just won't have a copy in outlook, but its not end of world.
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There is a way to sync your outlook calendar, but this would be way easier. Not an app but a program for your computer
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync.
Just sync your current calendar with your google one(Should probably be like that already) then add whatever new events and stuff from google calendar or outlook rather than any other app you may use.