The new Microsoft Planner: Everything You Need to Know!

Microsoft Planner is getting a much-needed re-fresh, a new logo, a new feel, and a combination of new Microsoft 365 tools for task management into one house.

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00:00 - What is Microsoft Planner
00:20 - Sunsama
01:20 - How it works?
03:20 - More Features in Planner
04:50 - Project Management & Templates
07:30 - Should I get it?

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[wayslow]

I like the new logo. It's close to showing the middle finger to clients, but far enough that QA and management never noticed. Love it.

[vossenjonk]

So happy I switched over to clickup for my business projects. This seems like more of the same as before.

[songlore]

thanks for the video. I just started a new job that has microsoft 365 and this will help me.

[hoboesque_]

I need help, between loop, planner and to do in conjunction with teams … I need examples of how each app applies to PM work

[Spp.]

One missing feature which is frustrating. Need to have a “cc/Info” rather than simply “assigned to”. Only “Assigned to” are provided notifications that the task has been created or updated. For others that need to be updated (but are not responsible for the task)…there is no way to auto keep them informed unless they are also “assigned to”. Really dumb oversight.

[ZorkNow]

I may have missed it, but where can you run reports / export data to create reports in another tool (e.g. Excel)? Used to have that feature.

[gepatvplus]

Boring stuff only Microsoft can do. What’s really the point of this, seen a thousand times made by others ? It’s like Loop : the promise is nice but no one understands it really. I’m a 365 user but I’m not ready to leave Todoist and Craft anytime soon for a MS alternative.

[congobongo]

Help! I’m just starting the Teams planner and can not figure out how to search for a particular word in our planner tasks. I see the big search rectangular feature up top but when I put in a word to search and find throughout all the tasks, I don’t get results when I know that word was used.

[marjensendk]

So the NEW Planner is exactly like the Old Planner, except it can only be accessed from the Teams app?

[Treebranch_]

You once had a video of an app that you thought replaced (or seemed similar to) canva. Any chance you remember what app that is?

[inggw]

How can i move a flagged email to a plan?

[godwinfiagbenya]

Relax with the speed of speech and cursor movement for a sec. Wayyy too fast.
I’d rather have a twenty minute video I wouldn’t have to be rewinding than have a 10’minute video which I would rewind 15 times.

[Oleg.Tsukanov]

I remember the days of Outlook 2003. It was magnificent: flexible, powerful, and integrated into the MS ecosystem. Then, for some reason, Microsoft killed it as a PIM and started making separate services that still haven't caught up to good old Outlook in terms of functionality

[mudburon]

How many Microsoft project management tools does it take to change a lightbulb?



... Just one, but you'll need three different licenses to figure out which one.

[bb]

too much going on and Teams is horrible. Feel like it’s somehow worse… nothing like a quick, straight-forward, minimalistic app for tasks and scheduling.

[rahimovassagh]

Nothing you explained is new. I have been using Planner for at least 5 years and the free version is the same piece of crap. I was waiting for the new version for months and am very disappointed.

[Spp.]

Why the heck would you profile a competitor (Asana) when you are supposed to show Planner ? Annoying.

[minhquanbrvt]

Nothing new. MS have just changed the interface only.

[BartvanderHorst]

It is the most bulky ugly software I ever used. Still don't understand why microsoft had to kill wunderlist, and morphed it into this ugly to do app, and now it is linked with teams and this failed trello sibling called Planner. To me it will be en eternal question why huge companies like google and microsoft build such ugly and worthless productivity apps.