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Helpful for organizing
The app is very helpful and excellent at helping me organize my to-do’s especially with reminder notifications! I like that it can automatically insert notification reminders, or put it into individual projects. My wife likes it as well, we did have a bit of a time finding out how to view completed tasks (thanks go to the developer for answering our original review), which really helps her out feeling accomplished even if it was small things. I got this app specifically for ADHD helping me get organized and it is so helpful if you tend to get distracted easily. And to create a project then break it down into sub tasks. Review updated to 5 stars from 4 for customer service and for helping correct (our user error) the only con that we had noticed about this app.Show lessTwerkules
Great app!
This is exactly the app I needed to help keep track of tasks, to dos, and projects in both my personal and work life. The seamless syncing between my iPhone, Mac, Windows PC and iPad really make this a great app to use for seamless sync. I’ve also got my wife signed up and we work together on a lot of home projects around our small farm. This allows us to collaborate, add tasks to projects and notes about the tasks.
I do think it would be better if notifications were not a premium only feature as without notifications, this product really doesn’t work for many folks as a reminder replacement. It’s also a little discouraging that there isn’t a family option... I’d love to include my kids’ chores on this and use it to teach them how to organize their tasks in life. Maybe a set cost for families up to a certain size? Outside of the package offerings, I think this is a fantastic product and recommend to a lot of people!Show lessdice90
Best I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a lot)
Todoist is full featured and actively developed with many thoughtful surprises, large and small throughout. Over the last ten years I’ve tried many task management apps and methodologies. I most recently tried several of the major ones a few months ago. Todoist is the best I’ve tried. It’s elegant to use if you want to keep it simple and has the capabilities necessary to implement a more rigorous task management system like GTD. This ability to keep it simple and facilitate complexity is important, I think, as it takes a while and some experimentation for a person to settle on a task management methodology that works best for them, often drawing from several different methodologies. Other popular task management apps are more limited, and after using them simply for a while and realizing you want
more, the features that would allow you to do more aren’t present and you have to move to another app. This has happened to me a few times and was a waste of time. I wish I’d just gone with Todoist from the start.Show lessMoonUnit137
Best Task Manager I’ve Used to Date
It’s remarkable to me ToDoist isn’t ranked higher on the productivity charts because it easily eclipses anything that I’ve ever used before. It’s gorgeous (I prefer dark mode, but there are more themes) It integrates great with the GTD methodology (my preference) but whatever your system, it’s robust enough that you should be able to integrate it well. I love what they did with Karma, their gamified point system (but I would like to see this expanded). You can tell that the creators stay up-to-date on best practices and they regularly update a pretty informative blog that is enjoyable for a productivity junky like me. I used it for 24 hours and pretty much decided I NEEDED premium which is easily the best $3 I spend every month.
It’s important to distinguish between what this is and is not though. It does not teach you how to be productive. It is not a good place to do high level goal setting, visioning, and planning. It is not a calendar. It also doesn’t focus you on the task at hand. The app is a Task Filing System. It is a utility that will enhance your workflow with those other things. It will work great for anyone who needs to make a to-do list, but those who chose to educate themselves on actual task management theory will get the most out of it. I hope it hits the top of the charts!Show lessLink100
Good, but needs undo feature
This app is intuitive and has good features. I only have the free version, but I have been happy except for one thing, the importance of which is escalating. Unless I am blind, Todoist has no undo feature. So if I accidentally delete a task I can’t get it back. This has happened to me more than once and the last time my task had a long list of subtasks. All disappeared. Given that the method for deletion is to click the circle to the left of the task, when in other apps a circle in that spot is used for selecting, it seems there ought to be an undo. Otherwise, it’s a great app.
Update: The developer contacted me with instructions to use while viewing my project. I don’t have a project, just a simple list, and when I click on the three dot icon at the top right, I do not see “Show completed tasks,” but only “Select tasks.”
Update again. The developer contacted me a second time and confirmed that deleting a task can only be done in project view, which was disappointing. But the developer’s commitment to communication is splendid, which counts for a lot in my book.Show lessKtscopes
Developer Response
Thank you for the update! All tasks belong to a project thus it is only possible in that view, not in a filtered view like Today.Now Todoist is Perfect
I left Todoist for Things. Then I left Things for Moleskin. Then I left Moleskin for the updated iOS Reminders app. I’m back with Todoist! They’ve changed the clunkiness of everything and have added sections and the ability to check off tasks on their mobile platforms the way they always had it on a Mac.
The sections addition(I’ve been gone for awhile) was one of the features that made me go to Things...except I lost the intuitiveness of Todoist when I did that...Now I can do the same thing with Todoist and better consolidate and organize everything without feeling overwhelmed with so many projects in the task column. Sub-tasks are also evolving with Todoist.
I’m very pleased to be back and happy Todoist has adapted and evolved to stay on top. I’ll save you the trial and error...Stay with Todoist, otherwise you’ll eventually be back anyway.Show lessAdam AMH 7
Game changer
With digital tools, such as email, calendars, cloud, etc, having to actually use paper for organization is becoming a thing of the past. The one item I could never find a solution for was to dos. Because of this, I still carried a paper to do calendar (like you had in middle school) to help me track things I wanted to get done. I tried all sorts of ways to get rid of this (emails, calendar invites, etc), but none gave me the visual list or ease of just writing it down.
This app changed all that. It’s functions not only replaced my calendar, but actually improved as I could organize them by project, search them, and move them around. It sychs quickly between my iPhone and iPad, and has become one of my most important apps.
My company gives us office 365, which includes Microsoft to do. I’ve experimented with this, but its functionality or ease is no wear close to this app!Show lessThisNicknamesAreTooComplicated
Finally almost perfect
The new overhaul of Todoist has made it feel fast, reliable, and easy. Honestly, it’s the best thing to happen to Todoist since they released 1.0. This is now my go-to recommendation for anyone looking for an easy, understandable, and reliable task manager because it can be simple if someone doesn’t want to spend too much time dealing with it, or robust if someone is looking for something to center their entire life around. There are only a couple features missing, like matching system dark mode (so I can choose one of the fun color themes for the header but still have a dark screen), setting projects to always sort by a criteria (so every time I open them I don’t have to click sort by date), and setting a start time for my day (so when the clock rolls over to midnight I don’t suddenly have a red bubble with a giant list of things to do, I should be able to choose the time of day that starts). If these three features were added, I don’t think I could come up with a single complaint. Todoist on iOS really is that close to perfect at this point.Show lessEgg Captain Greg
Fantastic Update
Been using Todoist for almost 3 years now I’ve tried MANY different Task/Project Managers even following them closely and trying them out after they would get huge updates. There are a lot of great productivity apps now days but I always find myself coming back to Todoist as it’s simple yet powerful and in my opinion has the best balance of simplicity and features in one package. Throw in the fact that the team at Todoist is constantly improving it with this new Foundations Update it’s gone to a new level. There are still things they need to tweak but overall it’s been great. Also just when I thought this app couldn’t get any better it did with the Foundation’s update and with word of it adding Trello style boards as a future option I see things only getting better. I highly recommend not just trying this app but learning the ins and outs and living with it for a month to really get the full experience of how great this application is. Keep it up Todoist Company!!Show lessJJdizzle778
Sanity saving
I don’t usually write app reviews, but Todoist has been invaluable for me. Until now, I’d gotten along just fine keeping track of things by using a handwritten weekly list of tasks, supplemented by an ongoing list of tasks in my calendar. I’m semi-retired, and don’t have that much to keep track of.
However, I recently assumed responsibility for coordinating the care of a friend who needs 24/7 care, dealing with all her insurance, doctor appointments, managing her finances, and many other critical tasks that were overwhelming.
I turned to Todoist and it was remarkably easy to learn to use. Not everything was completely intuitive, but the ability to organize tasks into separate projects, and the flexibility of viewing tasks allows me to manage more than I could hope to without the use of the app. The seamless coordination between using it on my iPhone and iPad means I can add or review tasks whenever and wherever I am. I paid for the upgrade and it’s well worth it to be able to add comments.Show lessCineasteSF
