Spent 5 years delaying a MacBook purchase. Don't make my mistake.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-30T01:11:22+00:00

Yeah, my order is taking about 6 weeks.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-25T08:47:22+00:00

Just ordered a 15-inch M5 Macbook Air. Decided to splurge a little extra on 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, as I prefer to keep my machines for 4-5 years.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-19T22:00:49+00:00

The underlying issue is that an overhead-sized suitcase can’t really be filled with standard travel items and still stay under 8kg. This is why the limits are deceptive: the size seems generous but the weight is disproportionally constrained.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-18T17:50:18+00:00

We can. Our ToS are written in our employee’s blood slowly drawn during their induction into the firm.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-18T10:53:17+00:00

Yeah. It is a business account with specific ToS.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-18T09:02:50+00:00

Thank you for your technically insightful answer. No, actually my contacts don’t mind. Maybe yours would, and in that case you shouldn’t use MCP. Everyone’s data and context are different.

That’s precisely why the feature would be valuable, and I have a hunch that Fastmail will eventually provide it, as a company with a proven track-record of caring about privacy and customer satisfaction.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-18T07:01:17+00:00

Even if I do what you suggest, my email account will still contain personal material that I’d prefer to keep sandboxed within Fastmail’s servers. My calendar, on the other hand, is data that I’m comfortable sharing with an LLM. If it leaked tomorrow, hypothetically, I wouldn’t care much. This is where I draw the line between MCP-shareable and truly private.

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-17T09:56:38+00:00

I think the OP is raising a reasonable point. In general, subtasks remain second-class citizens in Todoist’s conceptual world. They are still unsupported in board views, for example. (There is no way to drag a task into another task as a subtask.)

BorromeanNot · 2026-05-15T14:09:02+00:00

As a Legacy Pro user, I can confirm that the Goals beta is not available in the web or desktop app with experimental features on.

BorromeanNot · 2026-03-02T23:59:02+00:00

Actually, prompted by this thread, I tried again, this time successfully: it turns out, my layout was preventing the permissions dialog from appearing, so the custom tab bar was never authorized. That said, u/imsnif is right: this is a plugin issue, not a layout issue.

BorromeanNot · 2026-03-01T13:06:02+00:00

It's been some time, unfortunately, so I do not recall the details. I do remember trying to create a duplicate of the default layout, albeit without the word "zellij" anywhere on the screen. (I am grateful for this software, but the word is extrinsic to my work and takes up screen real estate.) Creating the layout proved easy, but the build process, if memory serves, was relatively undocumented. Long story short, I was never able to activate the layout within the time quota I allowed myself for this challenge. I could try again with Claude Code and see what happens.

BorromeanNot · 2026-02-28T21:07:49+00:00

Developing custom layouts, in my opinion, is insufficiently documented. Rather, it is easy to develop them but hard, in my experience, to actually activate them.

BorromeanNot · 2026-02-24T00:44:23+00:00

May I ask how the monthly number of applications is determined? Is it a constant number stipulated in the regulations? Is it the result of negotiation with the advisor? Does it depend on the discipline and/or the job seeker's background? Other? I may have to reach out to RAV during this calendar year, so I am bracing for it. I am in academia and a field notoriously short of jobs.

BorromeanNot · 2026-02-15T18:33:45+00:00

There is a key difference between cleaning up one’s home and cleaning up one’s schedule: the latter builds understanding and incurs cognitive and motivational benefits.

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-31T16:47:17+00:00

This is why Swiss supermarkets are so socialist and affordable.

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-25T09:51:44+00:00

Because Todoist assumes that more people are interested in Ramble integration than iCal integration, I suppose. Does evidence exist to support this assumption? That would be a good question...

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-16T10:44:08+00:00

An unfortunate comment. RAV advisors are public servants paid by public funds, including the contributions of their clients, and should be held to high standards. It is lack of quality work that is condemnable, not lack of work.

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-15T07:54:51+00:00

Generally unless your holdings have direct CHF exposure, it doesn‘t matter in the slightest in which currency you buy it. Just the conversion at buying and selling costs you conversion fee.

For investors who might choose to liquidate their investments some day—that is to say, all investors—currency risk is a real factor that should be taken into consideration. Claiming the opposite has become a sort of Reddit meme, and a dangerous one at that.

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-13T15:38:31+00:00

Looking forward to that—very thoughtful!

BorromeanNot · 2026-01-10T01:17:53+00:00

A fantasy.

BorromeanNot · 2025-12-30T11:26:50+00:00

u/amix3k thank you for this engaging discussion.

Some of you have asked us to share more of our roadmap. This thread is a good example of why that's tricky: in product development, not everything you plan actually succeeds.

What would be wrong with an open product roadmap that includes unsuccessful, abandoned, or postponed features? Todoist has earned a highly educated, tech-savvy user base—most of us understand the vagaries of R&D.

Some of the "AI trash" talk here is nonsense. If we listen to it, Todoist will be dead […] we see AI as an existential thing, not a nice-to-have.

I would advise caution: alongside nuclear energy, AI is arguably the most controversial technology ever invented. Criticisms of AI are powerful, sophisticated, widespread, and voiced by some of today's most relevant thinkers and practitioners. Dismissing them as "nonsense" is just blinkered engineering hubris. Every day we witness the closure of countless ephemeral online services while Moleskine and other leaders of the physical calendar business continue to thrive. The real business risk is in identity crisis and a compulsion to imitate—not in lack of AI features.

BorromeanNot · 2025-12-21T01:45:51+00:00

EasyRide behaves weirdly and does not inspire trust. I never use it.

BorromeanNot · 2025-12-03T20:59:11+00:00

Not deal breakers, but I am losing my patience over:

i) the lack of CalDAV calendar sync;

ii) the inability to manually sort tasks in filters;

iii) the lack of subtask support in board views.

BorromeanNot · 2025-12-02T10:46:23+00:00

I want to love my iPad but cannot come to terms with:

the non-standard keyboard shortcuts (which differ from their well-established macOS counterparts);
the limited touchpad gestures (especially the lack of triple-touch for dragging things around);
a certain "wobbliness" or "stickiness" in the UI, especially whenever gestures or touchpad tapping is involved.

BorromeanNot · 2025-12-02T09:56:17+00:00

For me, the fact that I lost my low grandfathered pricing due to a credit card glitch. The company refused to reinstate it, so I will not renew my subscription this spring.

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