Todoist
Organizing personal tasks, Managing simple work projects
It excels at simple task capture and organization but lacks depth for complex project management.
Expressing complex project workflows, Managing detailed task execution
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit”
NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-07
“electing to choose Todoist instead of org-mode for my todo list means I no longer have to worry about syncing, merge conflicts, or whether the mobile app I've chosen fully conforms to the spec”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-14
“something like Todoist which is fairly minimal was semi-problematic”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-12
“I've tried Todoist, Notion, Pomodoro, habit trackers, morning routines, "don't break the chain," Beeminder, public Twitter commitments. All abandoned within weeks.”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-21
“The additional features in todoist fills in the right data in the right columns, which is notable”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-05
“my attempts at Todoist or Taskwarrior didn't fare any better”
NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-08-12
“I like the "inbox" feature in Todoist (plus a single catchall project). I get overeager during the day and add a bunch of stuff. The inbox makes it easy for me to mostly just remove things I won't actually do but then file away the stuff I might for later.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-12
“I've been using Todoist for years and I've never intentionally done anything with the points or looked at them. That said, I've learned about myself that checking things off is surprisingly motivating. Having a discrete task, even for a tiny thing, makes it much more likely that I will do it.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-11
“for longer term planning i've found todoist to be indispensable. UI and features haven't changed much in years, great cross platform, pretty enable to different styles of planning”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-11
“Notion tasks, Asana, BlitzIt, Todoist, one or two other niche ones that I can't recall at the moment”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-11
“it's external to Todoist, but at least you get every instance of a recurring completion written to a log”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-23
“I prefer the Todoist interface. It feels like I have to do more clicking to accomplish the same things in Ticktick. 3. Integrations with IFTTT, task analytics, etc. 4. Better NLP task entry.”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-03-25
“once I loved using Todo apps, I migrated to Todoist and started paying for a Todo app”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-02-05
“my todoist is 30% re-occurring habit tasks and 70% fresh tasks (like work tasks, irregular tasks, etc). So I never get bored opening up my task app.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-19
“Some other apps that work (not amazingly but they do work well enough ) are Todoist”
LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2024-09-05
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