I'm in a celebrating mood - Flow released Export and Import.  This is a great day.  https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/grow-up-to-logic-apps/

So I'm going to write about something that I've built in the last week, because I've been looking at a simple Todo app - and Flow has started to really streamline the way I work.

This is part of a series on Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Todo, the app that's just damn simple

I don't really want to get into why I choose Todo instead of Wunderlist or Todolist or Google Keep.  I think I just want a really simple Todo app that I'll complete every day.  

In a nutshell, this is how I use Todo:

Todo doesn't have an API

But it sync with Outlook Tasks - which gives me the idea for this Flow.  (Actually, I'm pretty sure Todo just uses Outlook Tasks as the source).

1. Set up a Web Request
2. Calculate today - NOTE don't include quotes " and "
3. Create Outlook Task with title, description and today as due date

Test with Postman

Remember to set the content-type to application/json 

And we see this in Todo, almost instantly.

What's next?

I now have a web service that takes a simple JSON and I can add tasks anywhere into my Todo.  I'm playing with the idea that different Flows can put tasks into this API, which will populate tasks that I can add into "today".

• Bills from Emails
• Notable Twitter that spun off a crazy blog idea
• SharePoint project tasks
• OneNote tasks
• Planner (? this one I may leave in the Planner app)

I'm also thinking to create different lists for different sources, and watch task changes to write back to source system.  That will make this a really good end to end solution for me.