Great app but not if you use pens or surface pens. – Microsoft To Do Review

First off I really like the effort, the Todo team is putting forth. Second, this app is a few steps away from bridging the gap between laptop and mobile device. I think this team needs more push because it’s literally on the doorsteps of breakthrough. Todo does a lot of good things. It’s really smart about task suggestions. Has a very clean interface and even gives you access to your outlook tasks! It’s obviously lacking most of the chat features that apps like wunderlist currently have. It’s growing and that’s okay. One feature, a big one if you notice all the laptop pens at your local Best Buy, is that it kind of ignores the pen user community. (There’s the handwriting, pen community and the voice, virtual assistant, command community. Two communities that all the bigwigs like Apple, Google and Microsoft are scrambling for.) I speak as a user of the pen community. I use a Wacom tablet to hand write my tasks into outlook, on a pc windows 10 laptop, using a USB. I really enjoy this feature because I like to write and use digital interfaces as well. This is important to me because people tend to box you in as either a paper person or digital person. It isn’t black and white and the digital pens prove that. I draw my tasks into outlook 2016 using a Wacom tablet for my PC. Todo fails to show all of the task details as it is on PC. Specifically, hand drawn notes, created on a pc within an outlook task, don’t show up. It’s disappointing because windows 10 is all about the drawing ink experience and has managed to incorporate some form of pen drawing into most of their apps. Outlook 2016 is one of them. Is there a way to allow my inked (drawn) tasks that are actually made from within outlook 2016 (365 sub) to display on todo mobile? Todo app shows my task and it’s due date or typed notes but there is no trace of my handwritten image. Since windows ink is a huge part of windows 10. And there are so many cool handwriting to text built in features on it. Why not allow the people who’ve embraced the pen aspect of windows 10 to enjoy seeing their handwritten notes in todo task? Outlook has a built in draw feature in its own tasks so it might not be too hard to create. I know I can just type my tasks in. But it really feels counterintuitive to what windows 10 is advertising as a main feature. Pens. Please help us pen users. I know a lot of people that like to draw and use art would appreciate it greatly as well. I don’t really want todo to create its own handwritten notes on screen, though that’d be cool too. I just want it to display the full task and everything in it (including my hand drawn task detail) from my outlook account, just as it is on my desktop. Thank You!
Review by Agent619 on Microsoft To Do.