“As far as I know this function within todoist is not really recurring, but moved e.g. monthly and pretending to be a recurring function. There was an issue by another use a few month back who wanted an overdue function for e.g.”
“**•** If you use either one, what do you pair it with for task management? Things 3, Todoist, something built in, whatever works for you. Curious what combos people actually stick with”
“I easily have hundreds to thousands of tasks in Todoist at any time, but my projects are small enough that I haven't run into this specific limitation.”
“Todoist has been a game changer for me. I am finally starting to feel in control of everything and think this is the perfect task manager for my needs. I have set up 4 projects to help me manage 2 businesses, my W-2 job and my personal life.”
“same thing i do in Todoist when i start moving things around instead of actually starting. in beedone i hid most of the setup until after the first quest and it got weirdly calmer.”
“Can check around how much you budget or pay for these kind of functions? Eg pay for claude, todoist premium or whatnot. A bit scared to pay for things I end up not making much use of / find value.”
“Recently I went to search how to automate my life and ask for actionable task list. Afterwards, with the synced claude and todoist, I input the generated information for it to input to todist. Now I check off my todoist when I have completed it.”
“Just started trialing ClickUp as a possible replacement to Todoist and, while importing tasks from Todoist and creating my spaces, folders, subfolder, etc. I got this banner. What the heck does this even mean?”
“There is currently no native functionality to achieve this with todoist. However, this can be done (and I do it this way) using Todoist's API. You basically have to write a short computer script (can be vibe-coded) and run that script semi-regularly to update the todoist deadlines.”
“I love Todoist, but agree that this really is the most frustrating and arbitrary limitation. You can tell me that is not the purpose of the app, but the reason so many people use Todoist is because of how flexible it is for so many use cases.”
“this is way more polished than my "old tablet stuck on the fridge with magnets showing a single todoist widget" setup, respect for actually building the whole app around the idea”
“I do use Todoist as a storage system. Yes it’s not the intent of the app but I wasn’t able to find any app that makes capturing ideas easier. I just have to tap add a task, write my thought, press # to categorize it, and done.”
“And if you're into gadgets, there are all sorts of ways to take friction out of adding things to Todoist. I just got a pebble ring and it's very nice.”
“This is my primary second brain, simply for the reason that it's very easy to create recurring items and I can simply click on the "Today" tab to see what needs to be done.”
“Todoist is not a storage system. I doubt that you‘re actively working on more than 300 items. Reference material, someday/maybe, bookmarks and the like should not be stored in Todoist”
“And since you're coming from Todoist: you don't have to rebuild your system by hand. Mindwtr imports Todoist's export directly (the single CSV or the ZIP backup with your projects), with a GTD-first mapping — projects become projects, and you sort the rest in a weekly-review pass.”
“Todoist is probably the best - I say this as a very long time former user. I now use Obsidian, but its Android integration is much more limited (no notifications, no widgets, etc.) but those things are not relevant to me.”
“Honestly, Todoist is probably still your best bet here if you want that deep iOS integration plus a decent Linux client (via the web app or desktop wrapper). Most open-source stuff just lags way behind on the native mobile features like lock screen widgets.”
“Why don't you just sign up to Todoist as a Calendar in Apple Calendar. I do that and it updates pretty quickly, that way I can see my todoist tasks in my Apple Watch at a glance.”
“So far the best I could find is Todoist, but I‘m hoping to find something better. I found an open-source app Mindwtr, but it isn‘t very mobile-aware regarding the system features.”
“I love todoist for how easiy is it to add tasks but also to organize them with priorities days etc with simple shortcuts. What am missing is the ability to give each task a estimate of time to be completed so i can better plan my days”
“I would pay extra for a Personal & Work profile so I can firewall off those 2 things completely. I'm, still using Apple Reminders for personal tasks and would gladly have it all in Todoist of I could cleanly separate the two.”
“Separately, I’m almost done testing a Home Assistant automation that announces Todoist items with the @Announce label over my kitchen Echo. This shortcut is the missing piece to having any quick phone reminders I happen to set being announced at the right time the same as all my other reminders.”
“App Intents and proper Shortcuts support would likely resolve most of these issues, but I know the Todoist developers are lothe to add platform specific features”
“I have a Siri Shortcut on my iPhone that automatically pulls my Apple Reminders into Todoist whenever I open the Todoist app. It sucks that I have to do that, but it’s now only a mini inconvenience.”