While Lists can be really useful for task tracking and project management, that’s not the only thing it’s good for. Microsoft Lists is a major feature and interface upgrade to SharePoint lists, separated out into its own app.Need to backup Microsoft Planner? Check out our Office 365 backup solution. Planner competes with tools like Trello, Wrike, and Asana. There is also a personal view of Planner so each individual can see all their Planner tasks across Groups and Plans. It uses Kanban boards to track tasks and provide rich information about each task. It’s built into Microsoft 365 Groups, so each Outlook Group, Teams Team, and Yammer Community can track its open tasks in a way that doesn’t require a formal project manager. Microsoft Planner is an easy-to-use, team-based project management tool.That doesn’t mean they can’t do more than what I cover, just that they aren’t necessarily intended to: Let’s talk about what these tools actually are meant for. Are You Using the Right Microsoft Tool for the Job? GET OUR NEWSLETTER: Subscribe here for weekly content from AvePointīut where do Lists, Planner, To Do, and Tasks in Teams fall along the spectrum? There’s some overlap and there’s some aspects of these apps that aren’t actually just about tasks. Good task management across your life is a nirvana that app makers the world over have tried to solve the best way possible there’s a reason there are thousands of results among the Google Play and Apple App stores for task apps.

This is bringing up a lot of questions around which tool to use when, and that includes confusion of overlap among these four apps. #MicrosoftProject or #MicrosoftPlanner?Ģ020 has proven to be a big year for new tools and features rolling out in Microsoft 365, including the introduction of Microsoft Lists-basically a major update to the SharePoint lists experience, presented as a separate app-the new Tasks app in Microsoft Teams, and various upgrades to the two major task apps, Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do.

This post is the fourth in Matt’s “Which Tool When” series. Get firsthand tips and tricks on leveraging these latest apps from Microsoft and AvePoint in our upcoming webinar, “ Supercharge Microsoft Teams with the Newest Apps: Tasks and Lists!“

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