![]() ![]() There is a free Todoist, but it’s limited. It would be ridiculous to expect a sophisticated app with task notes, attachments, email reminders, fast sync, etc. What I Don’t Particularly Like about Todoist But even though I’m seeing the same task twice (maybe a GTD no-no?), I have found the added reminder helpful. At first I thought this was redundant (well… it is). Speaking of email… you can also have Todoist email you reminders of your tasks. This is a must-have for me in a task management app. Todoist assigns an email address to a Project of your choice, so I can email tasks (or forward actionable emails) directly to my Inbox. It’s easy to enter tasks in rapid-fire fashion, too, so you can do a brain dump well with Todoist. Todoist understands natural language, so entering tasks intuitively is no problem. So check out this page and this page for more. I’m sure there are Label and Filter ninja reading this post, and there’s much more to say about them–Todoist can do quite a bit here. So one label of mine is now “Waiting_For.” I’m sure I’ll get used to it, but it feels a little AOL-ish. Then you can filter your tasks by Labels or priority or any other saved search:Īnnoying is the fact that when you create a new Label, if there are two words or more, Todoist automatically inserts an underscore. But Labels allow you to assign contexts and anything else you like to your tasks (expected task duration?). Yeah, you can set up different Projects for organizing your tasks. Sure, there’s an Inbox you can use for GTD-style capture (from anywhere). I don’t know Todoist like I know OmniFocus, but Labels and Filters would appear to be the app’s heart and soul. Todoist doesn’t offer a Mac Mail plug-in, but as you’ll see below, you can email a task right into a Todoist project, so that’s not a big deal. This, unfortunately, is only available with Chrome–which is too much of a CPU hog for me. It’s the most ubiquitous and app-integrated task management app on the market. I don’t even really think about it, which is what you hope would be true. It’s much more like Things than (previous versions of) OmniFocus. Todoist’s sync across devices is natural and fast. (And you can tweak the color scheme, too.) No clutter, easy to read, pleasing to the eyes. But the more I’ve used Todoist, the more I appreciate the layout. It can calculate the sum of all $/€ amounts in a list of tasks.Here it is in landscape mode on an iPad mini:Īt first I thought it was overly simple, sort of blasé.The document is automatically linked to the task - I don't need to leave the browser I can create a word document in office365 by adding a label to the task. ![]() I try to use Todoist as my single source of truth for tasks/events - so I'm exploring new workflows over time. I've build a Python bot that adds some features for myself. If you're willing to pay for the premium version of a to-do app right out of the gate, just skip TickTick and go straight to Todoist premium, but don't expect the free version of Todoist to be enough for powerful workflow management. I'd recommend you start with it if you're willing to switch later. I never purchased TickTick premium because I found their free feature set more than enough to cover my needs, until I hit their arbitrary limit on list count. ![]() Also, they could improve interact-ability in iOS push notifications and markdown support in task comments (although it's already better than TickTick's). Still, there are certainly some annoyances that I'd change about Todoist, like the fact that completing subtasks of a recurring task don't complete the recurring task too, nor to they become incomplete when the next recurrence of the parent task is created. I love Todoist's UI polish, powerful search/filtering tools, customization options for organizational patterns, integration with iOS shortcuts, and their NLP is much more comprehensive when creating task reminders. Ultimately these drawbacks outweighed the benefits of a free app for me, and I switched to Todoist premium. Also, syncing between platforms is unreliable with TickTick, and I've consistently found their support team to be either unresponsive, or to prioritize silly new features over critical fixes. I can say that TickTcik offers much more for free, but I agree that there are a lot of bugs and inconsistencies in their UI. I'm a Todoist premium user after spending years as a TickTick free user. ![]()
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