Microsoft’s tackle job administration is obtainable for a take a look at run

Microsoft Lists is now available as a free preview to customers with private Microsoft accounts — however just for the primary 200,000 individuals who sign up to try it. Lists, which is a type of job administration meets to-do listing app, has solely been out there to enterprise and enterprise customers up till now.

Microsoft says the preview is constructed off “the core of Microsoft Lists,” and comes with some new options, together with tabbed views and the flexibility so as to add pictures in-line. The preview isn’t a feature-complete model of Lists, sadly, as Microsoft mentions that it’s lacking some functionalities of the usual app (though it’s not clear precisely what). It’s additionally not out there on the iOS or Android app but.

If you do determine to check out the preview, needless to say there are some limitations on storage — slightly beneficiant ones, at the very least. You can create as much as 50 lists with a restrict of as much as 2,000 objects per listing and may add as much as 200MB value of movies, recordsdata, and pictures to every listing.

First launched in 2020, Lists continues to be a reasonably new product — at its core, it basically lets customers create, handle, and share varied lists throughout units and with colleagues. It provides ready-made templates (like most of Microsoft’s merchandise) for a number of completely different wants, equivalent to some for an occasion itinerary, asset supervisor, onboarding guidelines, and extra.

And should you already use different job administration apps, like Asana and Airtable, you’ll most likely be accustomed to Lists’ function that permits you to swap between a calendar, grid, and customized structure whereas viewing your undertaking. For companies, I may see how Lists would possibly come in useful for work-related duties, like conserving observe of potential job candidates or managing content material on a web site. But for the remainder of us, it is perhaps a helpful device for managing a e-book membership, organizing recipes, or conserving observe of our job functions.