Todoist

Todoist

A classic task management application with tasks, projects and more - one of the best all-round task and light project management experience.

What's good about Todoist

What's good

  • Boards
  • Design
  • Reliability
What's not good about Todoist

What's not good

  • Slow Development
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Todoist Key Features

Todoist Key feature #1

Boards

You can turn any of your projects into boards for a more traditional kanban layout. People love turning any simple list into boards with custom view options too.

Todoist Key feature #2

Karma

Looking for some help or motivation boosting? Todoist has karma for managing how many tasks you completed and giving you a representative score.

Todoist Key feature #3

Task Sharing

You can invite others to collaborate on projects with you and manage tasks within lists or boards, perfect for more lightweight teams of 3-10.

What is Todoist?

Todoist is a fantastic all-round to-do list application. Really perfect for most to all uses of task management.

This is one of the task management apps you can recommend to your family and a professional at work and they both will get how it works from day one. Todoist is a reliable, fluid way to capture and manage tasks — with some integrations for connecting to your Google Calendar.

Todoist delivers a good team experience too — for “team inbox” and capturing those tasks via email too. Todoist is best known for capturing tasks with due dates, labels and natural language input — something people love from Fantastical 3.

Offering up boards and list views for your projects, people like the easy nature of Todoist.


Key Features of Todoist

Special features within Todoist you might need to know:

  • Lists — At a glance Todoist offers lists, but these lists are perfect for managing projects and can be shared with others. They can also be turned into boards, more on that in a moment. You can see your lists like “Next 7 Days” perfect for your planned tasks in Todoist including the ability in Premium to add “Filters and Labels” — a great way of creating a Getting Things Done system in Todoist.
  • Boards — Allowing you to view any of your lists (minus Today — coming soon) in a board view, this is ideal for managing your tasks in a board-like view. One for the Trello lovers out there.
  • Karma — Track your progress using “Todoist Karma” — an effective way to calculate a points score based on how productive you were for the day.
  • Templates— Smashing for building a pre-built list you use lots or commonly replicate for projects and saving it as a template.

Boards are one of the special features of Todoist, here's an overview of how they work:


Best Suited for?

We'd recommend Todoist to anyone for task management.

It is one of those tools that you can see your friend's mum having and your business partner too. The wide array of use is perfect as an all-round tool that can be expanded to your needs and adapted to how advanced you need it, or basic you need it.

We like Todoist a lot.

Understanding Todoist

Exploring Todoist further

Todoist is part of a remote parent company called Doist. Doist creates Todoist and Twist. They run a-sync and remote to help their employees cope with an every-changing schedule.

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