Microsoft To Do
Microsoft To Do is Microsoft's task management app for creating personal lists, reminders, and synced tasks across Outlook and other devices.
What is Microsoft To Do?
Microsoft To Do is a task management application published by Microsoft. It is designed for personal planning, daily task tracking, shopping lists, reminders, and lightweight shared lists. On Mac, users typically encounter it as a desktop app that syncs with their Microsoft account and keeps tasks aligned across Mac, web, mobile devices, and other supported platforms. A key part of its ecosystem is integration with Outlook tasks and Microsoft 365 services, including flagged email and task synchronization through Microsoft's backend services. Common features include My Day for short-term planning, due dates, reminders, notes, steps, and list organization. It is generally used by individuals, students, and Microsoft 365 users who want a simple cross-device to-do system rather than a full project management tool.
Key features
- Create multiple task lists for personal, school, work, or household planning
- Use My Day to focus on tasks you want to complete today
- Add due dates, reminders, notes, and steps to individual tasks
- Sync tasks across Mac, web, mobile devices, and other supported platforms
- Integrate tasks with Outlook, including synced Outlook task data
- Share lists with other people for lightweight collaboration
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
This is a legitimate Microsoft productivity app. It is generally safe when obtained from Microsoft channels, but it can store personal task details, reminders, notes, and account-linked data that may sync through Microsoft services.
Recommendation: Keep it if you actively use Microsoft To Do, Outlook task syncing, or Microsoft 365 task workflows. If you do not use it, removing the app is usually optional, but review whether you rely on synced tasks before deleting related data.
Common paths
/Applications/Microsoft To Do.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.to-do-mac
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.microsoft.to-do-mac
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.to-do-mac.plist
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