Microsoft To Do is the free, simple list inside your Microsoft account that can turn flagged Outlook emails into tasks. Pidgy reads the whole inbox, across Outlook and Gmail, and writes the real tasks for you, then plans and chases them.
Microsoft To Do is free, clean and tied into Microsoft 365. Flag an email in Outlook and it appears as a task, and My Day helps you pick a few things to focus on. The catch is that it copies the subject of emails you flag by hand, from your primary Microsoft mailbox, and drops them after 30 days. Pidgy reads every email in Outlook and Gmail, extracts the actual action (including the promises you made), ranks them, groups them into projects, drops them into Plan mode, drafts the reply and chases what stalls. Pick Microsoft To Do for a free, simple list inside the Microsoft world. Pick Pidgy if flagging and re-reading emails by hand is the part that breaks down.
How Pidgy and Microsoft To Do compare on the things task-driven professionals actually ask about.
| Capability | Pidgy | Microsoft To Do |
|---|---|---|
| Where tasks come from | Auto-extracted from every email |
Type, or flag an Outlook email by hand |
| Reads the email and extracts the real action | Yes, the actual to-do |
Copies the subject and a preview only |
| Captures commitments you made in replies | Promises become to-dos |
Not detected |
| Works across Outlook and Gmail | Both, read as one inbox |
Microsoft mailboxes only |
| No cap on email tasks | Nothing drops off |
Flagged list capped at 100 and 30 days |
| Plan tasks into your calendar | Plan mode: drag into time blocks |
My Day pick list, no calendar blocking |
| Project overview with live progress | Built from your inbox, with % |
Flat lists only |
| Drafts the reply, not just the task | In your voice, you hit send |
Out of scope |
| Chases stalled follow-ups | Queues the chase for you |
Reminders only |
| Motivation score | Inbox Health score, daily |
None |
| Pricing | Early access |
Free |
Microsoft To Do is a clean, free list. The difference is what happens to an email on its way to becoming a task.
In To Do you flag an email in Outlook and it becomes a task named after the subject, with a preview and a link that opens in web Outlook. It only works for your primary Microsoft mailbox, and the flagged list is capped at the 100 most recent flags from the last 30 days, so older follow-ups simply drop off.
Pidgy reads the email and writes the actual action, including the promises you made in a reply, with no flagging, no 30-day cap, across both Outlook and Gmail.
To Do gives you lists, a My Day view and a Planner Assigned to me list, but there is no project rollup or progress.
Pidgy groups every email, document and task about one piece of work into a single view with a live progress percentage.
My Day is a daily pick list with suggestions. It is a nice nudge, but it does not block time on your calendar.
Pidgy's Plan mode lays your tasks into calendar blocks in one move. Drag where they fit, pick a duration, set a reminder, and Add to calendar.
If you live entirely in Microsoft, want a simple list, and only need basic flag-to-task, To Do is free and hard to beat on price.
Pidgy is early access and broader. It is the better fit when the action is buried in the body of the email, when you work across Outlook and Gmail, or when the 30-day flagged-email drop-off keeps losing things.
Four things happen on their own, from the moment an email lands. This is the part Microsoft To Do leaves to you.
Both are good tools. They start from different ends of the same problem.
The to-dos that write themselves, from the inbox you already live in.
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