Microsoft To Do

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft To Do, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Overdue tasks pile up in red, adding stress when they accumulate2025-08-12
Tasks left on the Today list vanish every day, which was initially annoying2024-08-16
Takes five seconds to show the list and sync state is not clearly communicated2024-06-14
Checking an item automatically hides or reorders it, disrupting the user's manual ordering2022-01-16
Dragging todos to calendar doesn't set due or start dates2021-03-02
Users get randomly logged out, especially after updates, and must sign in again2019-09-09
Laggy, slow to load, crashes often, and awkward layout for pen input2019-09-08
Default My Day screen forces a daily view, not the flexible list management the commenter needs2017-04-20
Completed items draw more attention than remaining tasks, hurting focus on what matters2017-04-20
Content overflows off the page with no scrollbar, making it hard to read2017-04-20