Let’s set the Invocation name first, which will be used to call the skill e.g. – “Alexa, ask Microsoft Flow to. Note: this name can be different from the skill name. For this blog, I will trigger the Flow to get my last e-mail which will be then sent to Alexa that will read it out to me.
What ToDo (Toe Doe)
Lists are one of the main features I use Alexa for, and syncing Alexa with my Hotmail Tasks on my desktop and Microsoft ToDo App on my phone is a must (Hotmail Tasks and Todo lists are the same). Maybe Alexa is forcing us to use their lists instead of using Microsoft, and as of today, I see no choice but to change platforms for my lists/tasks. Third-party Microsoft To-Do (and Outlook Tasks) list provider for Amazon Alexa. To get started, enable the 'Tasks In The Hand' Skill on Alexa, grant Lists read/write permissions and link to Outlook Tasks by signing-in to your existing Outlook or Microsoft To-Do account. Microsoft To Do. 468 Discussions Options. Mark all as New; Mark all as Read. Turn that first sale into the next sale. Alexa and To Do not syncing Microsoft To Do View All. In app Microsoft. I've started using Microsoft ToDo tasks app. Seems pretty good so far. I'd like to be able to tell Alexa to add tasks and for them to be in my ToDo app. Also to sync the shopping list. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Maybe by using Zapier or Ifttt?
I have used several planner like tools out there, Outlook Tasks, ToDoist, Wunderland and Microsoft ToDo but after several years of use and playing around I have settled on Microsoft ToDo. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as some of the others but it gives me everything I need, its free, I can share lists, and it allows me to manage and plan those tasks.
Integrate with Alexa
Several of these apps are integrated with Amazon Alexa which adds the benefit of being able to speak my list and they automatically get added to my app. I had used this functionality with ToDoist and Alexa’s shopping list. This allowed us to call out to Alexa to add stuff to our shopping list and then when we went shopping we had the list on our phones. Unfortunately MS ToDo does not have that capability embedded so I needed to add it myself.
Alexa Microsoft To-do List
There are several ways of doing this. I can write an Amazon Alexa skill application to integrate with the shopping list and MS ToDo, but I really don’t have the time right now to spend trying to get my head around Microsoft API (convoluted) and security. The alternative is to use some work flow orchestration tool. I have used several in the past for some other functions so I thought why not apply it here.
Alexa Microsoft To-do Website
What did I use?
To be honest it is not one step and your done and really it is a work flow that only a hardened developer like myself would do. It works and it is keeps me from having to change my ToDo. I use IFTTT, Microsoft Flow, Gmail, and of course Alexa. Play store als download für pc windows 7 ultimate.
Now the video
Take a look at the video to see how I did it. I provide slides and all :). This is my first Facebook live video so please forgive the noise and newby of it all.
Alexa Microsoft To-do Order
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