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Flag message for follow-up and automatically add them to to to-do

Currently each message has:
* save
* thumbsup
* Mark as unread
* Copy link
* Immersive Reader

options available in the upper-right corner. I'd suggest adding another.

Please could you add a "flag for follow-up" option. Clicking it should add it to a list of flagged messages that are exposed somewhere within Teams however the real value would come from giving us the option to have the message appear in Microsoft To-Do, thus the experience would be exactly the same as adding flagged messages from Outlook (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/using-microsoft-to-do-with-flagged-email-f90c37b0-4453-4756-a6d5-e2ef8d33b395). When someone marks the task in To-Do as complete then it would unflag the message in Teams (again, exactly the same as the Outlook experience).

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Without this feature, there is no follow-up on chats. This is a critical feature in my opinion.

  • Beau commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A solid chunk of my organization has asked for this, and as we've transitioned to Teams with working remote 100%, it's something they're really missing from email. This (or a way to easily use individual messages as Power Automate triggers) would be really helpful.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be great to be able to keep tabs of whether the person has responded to your message. So easy to forget when you're busy to check if they have.

  • Harriet commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Desperately needed. The more people get on board with Teams, the less workable it becomes to keep track of all the messages. It can be hard to go back to the important ones with no way to flag or pin them. Flagging doesn't group by team/channel so isn't much help.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Does someone know if there is a (temporary) solution to do this with MSFT Flow? Like... when I save a message in Teams, create a Task/Todo. Even better when it synchronizes, but this would be also very handy.

  • Steve Ruby commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree. This a primary limitations vs email. Once I read something it is marked trad and has no priority vs all other messages. I need to mark for follow up and then see my marked queue.

  • Suzanne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The ability to flag items with a status would be extremely helpful: to-do, action item, pending resolution, resolved, expired, etc. The ability to track where something is waiting for me to do something, where I am waiting for a response from someone else, and when a particular topic is either dealt with (or no longer relevant) would be extremely helpful in not having items not get buried in the general flow of conversation.

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