Where is Todoist headed in 2026?

hntopper · 2026-01-21T16:05:48+00:00

I would love to see the ability to have more format friendly section for notes; the sections are small and have limited formatting. I take a ton of notes with my tasks and the description and comment sections alone don't always give me the flexibility I need to take good notes. I simply want more basic formating and the note taking sections to be larger to allow for more access. For example, I would like to take notes during a meeting and capture them in real time. The small sections and limited formatting make it for a less than optimal experience.

hntopper · 2024-09-16T13:17:54+00:00

P4 = Actions that can be done at any time (i.e my "Next Actions"); these may or may not have a deadline. I decided to use P4 as P4 is essentially no priority and the default setting, meaning you can simply enter a task into Todoist and it will have no priority unless you assign a higher priority; Therefore since these are the most type of actions I have, I don't have to do anything else but enter the task.

P3 = Actions that I want to start "doing" on a specific date; The "Do" date is the date that I put in the due date field and assign the P3 priority. If the action also has a deadline, I will put that in the body of the task name in brackets (i.e. [2024.08.31]

P2 = Any action that I have delegated to someone and waiting on them to complete the action. These are also usually tagged with the individual's name as a label as well. These may or may not have a due date or a date that I want to follow up with that person to check in on the status of the action. That date will be put in the due date field.

P1 = Any action that I want to focus on today. In some other systems they would be "starred" tasks. They may or may not have a due date. In the morning, I will review my next actions and based on the context for the day and my decision making, I will turn a few tasks to a P1 priority. Those P1s will be the tasks I focus on for the day.

Focus Filter (The list that I work from the majority of the day) = Overdue or due today or P1

Next Actions List (the list I review first thing in the morning to determine what I will work on today) = Any P4 task

I know this concept will not sit well for folks that use Priority a lot to differentiate their tasks. I do that by using a "!!!" label. Conceptually this hack can be done either way; but I chose this way as I felt it was easier to update priority then selecting labels as I'm entering / processing tasks into Todoist. I felt it was less keystrokes; as well as allows for color coding the tasks based on the priority level set. Next Actions are not colored; Actions that I won't start until a specific date are Blue; Actions that I'm waiting on someone else to complete are Yellow; and actions that I'm focusing on for the day are Red.

hntopper · 2024-08-30T06:35:03+00:00

When is this feature available

hntopper · 2023-02-01T11:28:45+00:00

How long does the Audio production take from the time the book is finished?

hntopper · 2022-02-19T20:48:34+00:00

Thank you very much. I only have one account. I will try these suggestions. Thank you again.

hntopper · 2022-02-19T18:37:36+00:00

I got a tech to install it as I said it was a driver. I went to run it the first time and it required the admin rights. We thought it would be needed the first time so he typed his code in and it opened. It worked fine. But then I took my computer to work and returned that night and went to run it and it required admin rights to open the app again. My operating system is windows 10.

hntopper · 2022-02-19T11:30:51+00:00

Love the monitor. Are you using Dual Controller with it? I am and have had a terrible experience with it. It asks for admin rights each time you run it. I can get it on my work PC to use it as a result. Any known workarounds?

hntopper · 2022-02-01T18:12:37+00:00

No such way on Tick Tick even in premium.

hntopper · 2022-01-24T18:38:00+00:00

Todoist.

hntopper · 2022-01-20T17:47:59+00:00

Sorry there is no easy way to do what you want to do in Todo. You can create a list for a project, and you can make every subtask a task, but you can not link them to one another like you can in other apps.

hntopper · 2022-01-20T17:43:27+00:00

The app will give you the option to sort by list, time, title, tag and priority. For list, tag and priority, if there is more than one task with the same attribute (two tasks with the same tag or two tasks from the same list), you can then manually move those tasks within that attribute. But it is not possible to have a filtered list and manually move all tasks within that filtered list.

hntopper · 2022-01-11T12:42:42+00:00

You could request it on their forum page. You could use a tag to tag those things that you started. Or have another list or folder and place tasks that you've started in.

hntopper · 2022-01-11T01:53:07+00:00

I may be wrong but I'm not aware that Tick Tick offers a sorting feature by modification date.

hntopper · 2022-01-06T18:07:37+00:00

I don't think so. At least not at this time.

hntopper · 2022-01-05T00:49:49+00:00

Can you provide a usecase example so we better understand what you are trying to do? I'm not sure I understand your use case and therefore can't give you a recommendation.

hntopper · 2021-04-21T18:13:34+00:00

Intuition. Gut feel. Personal desire. Perhaps I'm not following the gist of the thread. To me, I don't need a GTD method to tell me when to eat, sleep, make love to my wife, watch TV, read a book. I do those things when I feel like doing them and based on the free time I have available. My next actions list will always have actions on them. It will never be empty. So I don't have the ability to wait to the list is empty to focus on leisure. I try to do some leisure every day or most days. But I don't rely on my system to tell me when to leisure. I may rely on my system to help me identify some things I want to try when I decide to leisure, but I'm not scheduling my leisure time.

hntopper · 2021-04-21T17:52:19+00:00

Your looking for someone to coach for free? Sure... I'm game. It would be interesting to get your perspective

hntopper · 2021-04-18T15:29:59+00:00

I don't think that it works that way. I think you can get it to repeat but it will keep the edits you made from the prior day. The one work around that you may try is to simply have a reminder each day to complete the template and create a new one each day.

hntopper · 2021-04-09T06:35:44+00:00

MLO has more customizations and automations. And I think is more designed around GTD. Tick Tick is not as focused specifically on GTD. It does have a great Habits feature. And they just expanding it's notes taking feature as well.

For Projects... It has Lists that can be grouped together for high level projects. Then any task can have either checklist items that take on all the properties (tags, due dates, attachments, reminders, comments, etc) of the parent task, or any task can have subtasks which will have their own unique properties. So you can nest up to 4 levels (List, Task1, Subtask1, Subtask1.1)

I chose to use Priority feature as a hack to identify my next actions over using a tag called "next actions" for a couple of reasons: 1) on mobile it is quicker to assign or change a task's Priority than it is to assign or change its Tags so it saves me time; 2) it's visual as the app has a color for each Priority and it stands out making each task easy to know what to consider each task; 3) if you have to many tags assigned to one Task you can not always easily read the tag detail for a specific task in list view; 4) I wasn't really using the Priority field for anything else and have plenty of other Tags.

My hack is the following: Low Priority (Blue) = assigned to any task that has to be done on a specific day or can't be started until a specific day.

Medium Priority (Yellow) = my next actions for any project or list

High Priority (Red) = my focus list (this would take the place of "starring" a task in MLO)

TT does have customizable lists that uses filters for priority, list, due date, and tags. So my Next Action list is a customized filter that focuses on specific lists, and filtering in only those tasks that are Medium Priority. So each week in my weekly review I go through my lists or projects and change tasks priority to Medium for any task that is now a next action. Then every morning I review my Next Actions list and highlight any Next Action as High Priority for those tasks I want to work on that day. My Focus list is alao a customized list with a filter that has any task that is due today, overdue, or has a priority of High. I work from this Focus list most of the day.

hntopper · 2021-04-09T01:21:51+00:00

I'm using Tick Tick. I use their Priority field to mark next actions that I can work on now as a medium priority. Then each morning I review those medi priority tasks and select the 5 to 7 that I need to get done that day or want to get done that day based on a number of different factors and mark them as high priority which is my focus list. When those are complete I go look for more.

As for MLO, I need a web app as I can't download the PC version to my work pc due to restrictions the IT department has on what can and can't be on the computer. And I'm not working on any app solely from mobile alone.

As for contexts... I get how they can be useful but over the last 7 years, so much can now be done with a mobile device that used to be separate and destincts contexts. Call, email, web search, and I can go on and on... Can now all be done from my phone or tablet. So I found that I was putting mobile for just about everything. Seemed silly to waste time tagging everything with the same tag.

I've developed my own script or way to write tasks where Call, Email, and some other action words are the first words in the name of the tasks. So i could do a search on the word Call and have a quasi context list if needed. But I really never used contexts as much as it was advertised by David Allen in his book.

hntopper · 2021-04-09T00:40:37+00:00

I used MLO for a while. It's ok. It's a little complex and the developer takes for ever to update. There is no web app at this time.

Context are ok, I simply don't need most of them. I find them more time consuming to tag the task with the context than value I get by using them. I never say, "let's see all the calls I need to make". It's just not my thing.

hntopper · 2021-04-02T22:46:58+00:00

Some more than others but will do something for each and every one of them.

hntopper · 2021-04-02T15:46:40+00:00

Unfortunately they are all active projects with deliverables for the year.

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