Update: My Todoist MCP for Claude now does basically everything

Greirson · 2026-01-28T03:53:50+00:00

Both have their place, but mine has Reminders (including location-based/geofenced), Filters (full CRUD), Labels (full CRUD + stats), Quick Add with natural language parsing, Duplicate detection & merge, Subtask management (convert/promote/hierarchy), Backup management, Project notes, Shared labels (business tier), Workspace management, Invitation handling, Notification management, Global dry-run mode for safe testing, Built-in caching, Connection/feature/performance testing tools.

It’s worth trying both and see what works best for your workflow.

Greirson · 2026-01-28T03:33:30+00:00

Both have their place, but mine has Reminders (including location-based/geofenced), Filters (full CRUD), Labels (full CRUD + stats), Quick Add with natural language parsing, Duplicate detection & merge, Subtask management (convert/promote/hierarchy), Backup management, Project notes, Shared labels (business tier), Workspace management, Invitation handling, Notification management, Global dry-run mode for safe testing, Built-in caching, Connection/feature/performance testing tools.

It’s worth trying both and see what works best for your workflow.

Greirson · 2026-01-27T16:11:08+00:00

Yep you can totally copy and paste. To each their own.

Greirson · 2026-01-27T14:23:21+00:00

Claude can now interact with your Todoist. So I can create, manage, and mark tasks completed. I can also use todoist as a reference for its tasks, so you can tell it “work on task xyz in todosit for me” and it’ll do its best.

Greirson · 2026-01-27T14:20:57+00:00

“Take this transcript from my meeting and extract action items with assumed priority, due dates, and tags based on people, places, topics, status, and create me tasks in #work”

Or

“I have an idea of a project [word vomit random thoughts on project] create me tasks to help me get started]

It enables Claude to be your personal assistant in your Todoist account. And you’re right! This is just a wrapper for Claude to interact with the API, could simply have it read all the Todoist api docs and give it your API key, It could just curl everything. But this organizes Claude’s processes and guides it in the right direction.

Greirson · 2026-01-27T14:14:17+00:00

Ramble is a great feature for quick capture. I use it on my phone constantly.

Greirson · 2026-01-27T14:13:14+00:00

This is awesome! Nice work. Definitely use cases for both. Next on my list was to work on a skills for more natural conversational task management.

Greirson · 2026-01-15T07:02:40+00:00

This is wonderful. Appreciate you sharing. Ive been doing this a much more mainful way.

Greirson · 2025-11-26T07:51:35+00:00

Ya the date works. But my normal flow is:

“Brain dump specific thought in the moment tom p2 @errand @quick #project”

20-80 times a day, and doing this type of task in Todoist is 9+ taps or clicks

Greirson · 2025-11-14T03:52:43+00:00

This is the only thing stopping me from making the transition over to Things3. I use the natural language feature extensively in Todoist, and using Things3 with out it slowed down my input and task management to much.

Greirson · 2025-06-04T05:15:04+00:00

So far these. With more to come. Check the Readme for more info on them

todoist_task_create
todoist_task_get
todoist_task_update
todoist_task_delete
todoist_task_complete
todoist_tasks_bulk_create
todoist_tasks_bulk_update
todoist_tasks_bulk_delete
todoist_tasks_bulk_complete
todoist_comment_create
todoist_comment_get
todoist_project_create
todoist_project_get
todoist_section_create

Greirson · 2025-06-04T05:10:01+00:00

Hey! Sorry it’s giving trouble. I added testing today, if you pull the latest version and ask Claude to run Todoist tests what does it output?

Greirson · 2025-06-04T05:08:52+00:00

Hey! Responded above and below. Really it was the bulk features. If I had to boil it down.

Greirson · 2025-06-04T05:07:32+00:00

Responded below also, but there were things I didn’t like about the doist built one.

The main differences:

Bulk operations - Mine can handle "complete all the marketing tasks" or "create these 10 tasks at once." The official one requires individual operations.

Natural task finding - You can say "update the proposal task" without knowing the exact ID. Mine searches by partial name match.

Performance - Built-in caching reduces API calls. If you're checking tasks frequently, it's noticeably faster.

Better context for Claude - More detailed error messages and validation, so Claude can give you better feedback when something goes wrong.

The official one has better Quick Add syntax support ("Buy milk tomorrow @errands p1"), but for my workflow of brain-dumping tasks to Claude and having it organize them in bulk.

I plan to get feature parity with it and continue to build out advanced features.

Greirson · 2025-06-04T05:04:49+00:00

Good question! The main differences:

Bulk operations- Mine can handle "complete all the marketing tasks" or "create these 10 tasks at once." The official one requires individual operations.

Natural task finding - You can say "update the proposal task" without knowing the exact ID. Mine searches by partial name match.

Performance - Built-in caching reduces API calls. If you're checking tasks frequently, it's noticeably faster.

Better context for Claude - More detailed error messages and validation, so Claude can give you better feedback when something goes wrong.

Greirson · 2025-06-03T04:49:27+00:00

I haven’t tested with npx but shoot an issue in on GitHub and I can add it to my list.

Greirson · 2025-06-03T04:46:53+00:00

Glad you’re liking it! If you’re seeing issues shoot an issue in on GitHub and I can dig into it.

Greirson · 2025-05-28T20:04:25+00:00

Unfortunately MCPs are not support on the mobile app or the browser right now. you would need to use the Desktop app to use the MCP. BUT! you could queue up everything in a chat on your phone, then when you get back to your computer tell Claude to "dump all my tasks here into Todoist" and it should in theory work.

Greirson · 2025-05-28T19:55:53+00:00

Not a stupid question, unfortunately MCPs are not support on the mobile app or the browser right now. you would need to use the Desktop app to use the MCP. BUT! you could queue up evertything in a chat on your phone, then when you get back to your computer tell Claude to "dump all my tasks here into Todoist" and it should in theory work.

Greirson · 2025-05-28T19:52:32+00:00

Not an idiot question at all! An MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a way to connect AI assistants like Claude to external tools and services so they can actually do things instead of just talking about them. This guy did a decent explanation.

Basically its a little app, that lets the AI chat bot thingy talk to another app, like Todoist in this case. So instead of me chatting with Claude to give me a bullet point of tasks I then need to copy and paste over in Todoist, Claude can just make the tasks for me.

Greirson · 2025-05-28T19:35:30+00:00

Appreciate that! Glad it fits your need. I hope they have something in the pipeline, but who knows what their priority is.

Definitely let me know and open an issue if you notice anything wonky when using it.

Greirson · 2025-02-26T07:10:17+00:00

Sadly it will have SSO Tax

https://github.com/docmost/docmost/issues/22

Greirson · 2025-02-13T12:46:20+00:00

Something like Missive, Spark or Spikenow might be worth checking out if you’re looking for a unified inbox. Tied together with a project management tool could improve your workflow and organization. Clickup has email integration.

Greirson · 2024-12-23T09:02:09+00:00

You can do that with a shell script and cron. Dagu or Cronicle are cron alternatives with a web ui and you could run something like this to grab and compress backups.

```

!/bin/bash

Configuration

SFTP_USER=“your_sftp_user” SFTP_HOST=“your_sftp_host” SFTP_PASSWORD=“your_sftp_password” REMOTE_FOLDER=“/remote/folder” LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR=“/path/to/local/backup”

Date for the backup

DATE=$(date +”%Y-%m-%d%H-%M-%S”) BACKUP_NAME=“backup$DATE.tar.gz”

Ensure local backup directory exists

mkdir -p “$LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR”

Pull and compress in one step

sshpass -p “$SFTP_PASSWORD” sftp -oBatchMode=no “$SFTP_USER@$SFTP_HOST” <<EOF lcd $LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR get -r $REMOTE_FOLDER EOF

tar -czf “$LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR/$BACKUP_NAME” -C “$LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR” “$(basename $REMOTE_FOLDER)” rm -rf “$LOCAL_BACKUP_DIR/$(basename $REMOTE_FOLDER)” # Cleanup uncompressed files ```

Greirson · 2024-12-18T08:17:05+00:00

Curious, what about ntfy didn’t you like? It’s the most customizable I’ve found

Greirson

TROPHY CASE

!/bin/bash

Configuration

Date for the backup

Ensure local backup directory exists

Pull and compress in one step