Focus on to-do, not overdue: Mar 31

We’ve all had our fair share of overdue tasks staring us in the face. They can be quite daunting, especially when they take over your view of the day as they pile up to panic-inducing levels. Here’s a quick fix: you can now collapse the Overdue section on your desktop or browser. 🤩

Perfect for whenever you feel overwhelmed or just need to focus on Today before dealing with those pesky or less important tasks.

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So, go ahead and hide them for a moment of clarity, but don’t forget to tackle those tasks tomorrow, later in the week, or … someday, maybe. 🗓️

In other news, spring cleaning has started, and we’ve squashed a group of bugs making everything feel fresh and clean again. 🧹 ✨

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

Your browser’s tab will now show the correct name of your label when you’re in a label view.
Peek-a-boo! 🙈 The recurring circle icon seemed to be playing games in the task view of a recurring task. Playtime’s over, we fixed that bug.
Long comments are displayed properly again.
Some of you saw today's tasks in the "Overdue" section of your Upcoming view. That’s not right, so we fixed that. What a relief, you’ve still got time! 😅
Reset sub-tasks of a recurring task are now placed in the correct order.
When you say “no date” or “no due date,” Todoist will know what you mean again.
You can once again include comments when printing tasks.
Want to delete a completed task? Go ahead, delete it! (Now that this pesky bug was eliminated.)

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

When you add a video link in the comments, it will now show an image preview.
Sometimes, the comment field wasn’t cleared after hitting the send icon. This has now been fixed.
Checking the Upcoming view on your watch? Don’t worry, it will no longer show tasks assigned to others on your team.
Completing a recurring task on your Apple watch will reset the task’s circle again.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

You can now also uncomplete a task from the task view.
It’s great to get a notification when you receive a new comment. But, not so great if your device freezes after you close said comment. 😆 Luckily, that’s been solved.
When you receive a reminder on Wear OS, you can directly reschedule the task again.
Changing the date or due time may have resulted in some wonky behavior of the scheduler, but that won’t happen anymore.
Adding a website as a task in Firefox will now successfully work for all websites, not just for some.
Some fixes and design touch-ups to keep Todoist looking and acting refined. ✨

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 3312; iOS 23.3.19; Android v10812; Android Wear w10769; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.2

Will you help shape Todoist’s future of collaboration?✨

Do you regularly collaborate with others and believe that working together should be faster, simpler, and more joyful? Then you might be the perfect candidate to participate in our newest private beta. Sign up to be one of the first to test a brand new way of collaborating inside Todoist (before we release it to everyone else!).

→ Request access here

Bye-bye bugs: Feb 8

It’s a new year and we’re off to a good start with a nice list of pesky bugs we got rid of. Also, some tuning and polishing have made everything a little better than before.

Customize Quick Add available on all platforms

With Quick Add customization now available on all devices, you can make Quick Add work even quicker for you. Personalize your Quick Add by choosing which task actions you want to display and in what order. Even better, your settings will automatically sync across all platforms.

For example, if your workflow includes regularly assigning tasks to your team members, you can choose to add Assignees to your Task Action list. Do you work with an intricate labeling system? Put it front and center so it’s the first thing you can add to your task. Think of this feature as a way to simplify and tailor your Quick Add to the way you work best.

⚙️ Plus improvements

Do a little happy dance. 💃🕺 Each time you hit your targets with the new celebratory popups for reaching your daily and weekly goals (on web and desktop).
Improved scrolling in Todoist for Wear OS when rotating the digital crown on your watch.
If you use Todoist on Android, we can’t wait for you to reach #TodoistZero and see our new, delightfully moving animations to celebrate your success.
On iOS, you can now long-press the map to select the desired target location for your location reminder.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

Thought you were seeing double (again) when duplicates of the same task appeared? 👀 Don’t worry, it was just a bug and we squashed it!
Uploading files to comments is working again.
Quick Add on Safari won’t open the app anymore but will add a new task — quickly, as it should.
Good news for those with slippery hands: the task view will no longer close when you click and accidentally drag the cursor outside the window.
No more tricking you into thinking there are unread notifications when there are none. That bug was exterminated.
Keyboard shortcuts were acting up and stopped working on every other task. That’s fixed, now they work on all the other tasks too.

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

No more tricking you into thinking there are unread notifications when there are none. That bug was exterminated.
Now your Apple Watch will always show the correct amount of tasks for the day. Glad we solved that math problem.
If you have your language set to Korean, you’ll be happy to know that Quick Add recognizes natural language again. 🎉
Stay on top of your to-dos again with widgets now showing up-to-date information.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

The app will now properly remember the default behavior you’ve set for resetting sub-tasks.
Dragging and dropping the Dynamic Add Button will once again create a new task at the desired position.
Tasks are now added to the correct section when board view is enabled.
We got rid of some glitchy behavior of smart date recognition.
The app will now open when you tap on the evening review notification.
No more tricking you into thinking there are unread notifications when there are none. That bug was exterminated.

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 3104; iOS 23.2.3; Android v10736; Android Wear w10693; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.2

Finish the year strong 💪: Dec 15

As the year draws to a close, we’ve been working hard to release some exciting features to help you end the year focused and organized with Todoist.

A better look at your week 🗓️

Calm and in control 🧘‍♀️. That’s how you’ll feel when looking at boards in the Upcoming view. Available on web and desktop, get a quick overview of your weekly schedule and plan your days ahead. When you enable boards view in the Upcoming view, every day of the week is a dedicated section, with your tasks shown as cards underneath. Drag and drop your tasks between days for superquick rescheduling and use the shortcuts shift + → and shift + ← to navigate to the next and previous weeks.

Plan your day with Boards in Today view

It is now possible to enable boards in the Today view. Exciting news for those looking for an option to “Kanban” their day! Let’s say you have different labels for e.g., phone calls, emails, work tasks, and personal tasks. You can now select Group by Label from the sorting options. Each label will be displayed as a separate column with its tasks shown as cards — a quick and easy way to get a bird’s-eye view of today’s workload.

Formatting made easy ⌨️

Make your task stand out in bold, highlight text in italics, or add handy links to your text. Formatting has never been easier with our new WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get. Get it? 🤭). All you have to do is highlight a piece of text, then select formatting options from the editor menu that appears. And a special note for the “We ❤️ Markdown” crew: tech-savvy folks can still paste Markdown or type its syntax into Todoist to convert the text into Rich Text.

Formatting text with the WYSIWYG editor is only available on the web and desktop, but any formatted text will appear as such across all platforms.

Complete and start over 🔁

Due to popular demand, you can now reset your sub-tasks whenever you complete the recurring parent task they belong to. Perfect for those daily routines and habit tracking. Go to the task menu (or long-press the task’s circle on mobile) to choose how you want to complete a specific recurring parent task. You can also set the default behavior for completing recurring tasks with sub-tasks in your settings. Learn more.

⚙️ Plus improvements

The notifications panel will now show the last tab you had open, so you can pick things up right where you left off.
New habit push notifications to stay on top of your tasks of the day: morning overview and evening review. To activate on mobile, toggle them on via Settings > Notifications.
We thought it would be nice to change the color of links to red. It wasn’t. Link colors are now neutral again.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

You can once again create separate tasks in Quick Add when you paste multiple lines of text.
Duration of events in Google Calendar will now sync properly (only for newly created tasks).
It may have felt like you were in a house of mirrors when sections were duplicated for no apparent reason. That puzzle is solved, no more duplicates.
Notification messages were piling up and covering the left side of the screen, making it hard to do anything else. That’s fixed.

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

WatchOS users saw a spike in their productivity when recurring tasks with sub-tasks were accidentally completed thousands of times. This has been fixed.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

No more empty loading screen when trying to open the app.
Dynamic Add will once again place a new task in its intended spot.
Duplicate tasks will no longer appear when you uncomplete a task.

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2862; iOS 22.12.11; Android v10646; Android Wear w10603; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.1

Boost your productivity with 6 brand-new UI Extensions: Nov 22

Latest Experiments 🧪

We are very excited to introduce six new extensions, designed to amplify Todoist with powerful functionalities that help boost your productivity! Start tracking your habits, create your very own templates, or enjoy the magic of AI to help you reach your goals.

→ Browse all of the new UI extensions here.

Habit Tracker (desktop and web only) → Install extension

With the new Habit Tracker extension, all Experimentalists can finally start tracking (and celebrating!) their recurring tasks’ completion streak (in the task description) and completion history (in the comments).

To use the Habit Tracker extension:

Click on any task to open the task view, and click on the three dots icon in the top right corner to open the task menu.
Select Integrations > Track Habit.
Don’t forget to share your feedback!

Make sure to complete your recurring task each day. As any recurring task that becomes overdue at the end of the day, will cause your streak to reset.

Export to Google Sheets (desktop and web only) → Install extension

Documenting and reporting on work in progress and completed work just became a whole lot easier with the new Export to Google Sheets extension, now available to test for all Experimentalists.

To use the Export to Google Sheets extension:

In any Todoist project, click on the three dots icon in the top right to open the project menu.
Select Integrations > Export to Google Sheets.
Use the checkboxes to select which task fields (including due date, priority, creation date, description, section, assignee) you want to export > Click on Export.
Don’t forget to share your feedback!

Templates(desktop and web only) → Install extension

All experimentalists now have access to a new Templates extension that allows you to browse, search, and import templates directly from within Todoist. On top of that, you can use the Templates extension to import one of your existing projects as a template for a new project.

To use the Templates extension to import from a template:

To use the Templates extension to import from a project:

Task Helper (desktop and web only) → Install extension

All experimentalists now have access to a collection of 3 Task Helper extensions, all designed to speed up your work and save you from having to perform some of the following tedious manual actions over and over again.

Turn a task into an uncompletable task
Apply parent task’s attributes to all sub-tasks
Create a follow up task on task completion

To use the Task Helper extension:

Click the three dots icon that appears on the right-side of your task when you hover over it. Or alternatively, click on any task to open the task view, and click on the three dots icon in the top right corner to open the task menu.
Select Integrations > Select one of the Task Helper extensions.
Don’t forget to share your feedback!

Conversation Starters (desktop and web only) → Install the Conversation Starter extension

With the new Conversation Starters extension awkward silences during your 1-on-1s will become a thing of the past. Simply trigger the extension and 5 conversation starters to help structure your meeting agenda will automatically be added to your Todoist project.

To use the Conversation Starters extension:

In any Todoist project, click on the three dots icon in the top right to open the project menu.
Select Integrations > Add conversation starters.
Don’t forget to share your feedback!

🗄️ Archived projects have moved: Nov 9

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Ah, the satisfaction of finishing a project and moving it to your archive. Done, never to be seen again. 👋 Unless … when you do want to see it again. We may have alarmed some of you who were looking for your archived projects in the last couple of days. Sorry about that. We have moved archived projects for better access, allowing you to browse through your archive with more ease. To access your archived projects, click the Projects header in the sidebar and select Archived. Mobile users will be happy to know that archived projects can now also be accessed on mobile. To visit the archive on mobile, scroll down the projects lists and select Manage projects.

Also, we’ve been doing some fall maintenance: sweeping leaves 🍂 and removing bugs 🐛 to keep things working as they should be.

⚙️ Plus improvements

Use the keyboard shortcut ctrl (⌃) + Enter while writing a task description to save the description.
On Android you can now leave, archive, unarchive, and delete projects directly from the menu.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

The add task button is now active when grouping by label or adding a task from label view.
All comments have timestamps again.
Links are now processed correctly when dragging an email from Apple Mail into a task name.

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

Widgets now display correct task counters for grouped tasks views.
Color sorting in the Productivity chart has been corrected and is looking all pretty again! 🤩
Fixed visual glitch that caused overlapping text in the app header.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

You can once again keep track of your Karma 🧘 in the Productivity view while offline.
No more app crashes when trying to add a task.
It is now once again possible to move tasks to a section in the Inbox.
Comments were acting a bit glitchy, we fixed that. 🔧

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2673; iOS 22.11.2; Android v10586; Android Wear w10543; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.0

Headings for Mobile: Oct 12 📱

Our team has been busy with some app polishing ✨ and minor improvements to keep everything running smoothly. Also, we’ve successfully squashed a group of pesky little bugs. Bye-bye, bugs! 🐛

Heading formatting — now also on iOS and Android!

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There’s nothing like a heading to add a bit of structure to your writing. So mobile app users will be happy to hear that they can now also stylize text with headings in task descriptions and comments.

Create a heading by adding # in front of a word or phrase. The amount of # corresponds to the heading level. For example, to create a level two heading, use two number signs (e.g., ## Your Header).

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

When sharing a project, the link sometimes didn’t work. That was annoying, and we fixed it.
The E shortcut can once again be used to uncomplete (as well as complete) your task in task view.
You may have thought you were seeing double when duplicates of the same task started appearing. 👀 It wasn’t you. It was a bug. And that bug has been exterminated.

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

Reactions to comments will no longer disappear.
Items in the Quick Add menu are now properly translated (depending on your language settings, of course!).
The Unread tab will once again be empty when you’ve read all your notifications.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

Clicking on a deleted task in the activity log resulted in a neverending search for something that can no longer be found, causing the app to crash. While deleted tasks cannot be opened or restored, the app won’t crash anymore regardless. 🤷
You can still see the task title when adding a task with Quick Add.
The preview text of comments should also be visible in Dark theme. It is now, so you are no longer left in the dark. ⚫
No more app crashes when moving tasks to a different project in Upcoming view or using & in the search bar.

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2559; iOS 22.10.9; Android v10532; Android Wear w10483; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.0

iOS 16 Lock Screen: Sept 21 👀

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Announcing iOS 16 lock screen widgets! We couldn’t let a major update happen for our iOS folks without giving you something new to play with. You can now add tasks, check your goals and see what’s on your list for today, all from the fancy new iOS 16 lock screen. 🔒

In other news, we’ve also been powering through some bug fixes. Because checking things off our to-do list is what we do best. 🎯

⚙️ Plus Improvements

If you’re a filter lover (or yet to become one), you’ll be pleased to know that you will now see a task count next to filters on web. 🥳 Just like labels, projects, and favorites.
We’ve almost doubled the number of notifications Todoist can show (and it’s a lot). If your Todoist is a hive of activity, you’ll be glad not to miss out on that buzz. 🐝 And remember, you always have full control over your notifications if you like to keep things quiet. 🧘‍♀️

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

Archived tasks will no longer show up in your filters. You archived that task for a reason… To throw it into the abyss of system memory, never to be seen again. We’re honoring that now. 😌

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

Reminders are working on sub-tasks once again. Phew!
All comments will now load under your tasks. New ones, old ones, irrelevant ones. It’s all there for you to see again.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

In Dark theme, question marks appeared next to your unassigned tasks. Not a passive-aggressive way of us questioning your task choices. Simply a bug. And it’s fixed now.
No more app crashes when accessing the activity log or dragging sections in boards. Those are both working as expected. 🧹

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2482; iOS 22.9.14; Android v10484; Android Wear w10443; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.9; macOS 8.1.0

Little Tweaks to Keep Todoist Sleek 😎: Sept 6

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We’re always tackling the big stuff here at Todoist, but the little tweaks and polishes need tending to as well. Here’s a bundle of improvements and bug fixes to give you a peek 👀 into what’s been crossed off the team’s to-do list.

⚙️ Plus Improvements

When viewing a task, you can now uncomplete (as well as complete) your task by using the shortcut E.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

A search for completed tasks will no longer bring back uncompleted tasks too. That bug has been banished.
Bulleted lists will now format correctly within comments and descriptions. Because who doesn’t love a list, within a list on their to-do list? (Woah…meta.) 😵💫

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

VoiceOver is back to reading out task priorities. So you can be sure to tackle your most important tasks first. 😌

🐛 Minus Android bugs

Snoozed reminders will no longer appear after you’ve completed a task. A pointless, pesky bug that has now been eradicated.
If you have a few projects with the same name, you may have found your Today view, grouped by project, didn’t show all of those tasks. That’s fixed now.
You can now log in by typing in your email address without problems again.
Comments got a little glitchy for a while, with invisible reactions and visible deleted comments, but those are fixed now.

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2348; iOS 22.8.4; Android v10202; Android Wear w10161; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.7

Shortcut Update: Aug 11

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Indenting sub-tasks just got super speedy! While editing your task, use the keyboard shortcut ⌘/Ctrl + ] to indent and ⌘/Ctrl + [ to unindent. Full sub-task control at your fingertips. 🚀

Do you use task management with your team? We would love to chat with you. If you’d like to talk with us, fill in this form, and we’ll be in touch.

⚙️ Plus Improvements

Do you like receiving an alert email when there’s a new login to your Todoist? If it’s not your favorite thing, you can now toggle this off by going to Settings > Notifications > New Login Alert.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

You can drag and drop your attachments to tasks again without the pesky error message.
If you noticed your shared project collaborator count was +1, you didn’t have a spooky visitor. 👻 We just needed to improve our math. That’s fixed now!
If you were having trouble opening completed tasks, that’s back to working as expected.
Every! X hours command was recently fixed, but this broke every X hours when the task date was overdue. Not the intended domino effect, so it’s fixed.

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

The ability to add a sub-task did a disappearing act when you completed all other sub-tasks. That unhelpful bug was duly squashed.
You can once again tap-hold a task to both assign and unassign it.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

If the numbers in your sub-task counter looked a little off, that’s because they were. But that’s been fixed now.
You can once again list your tasks alphabetically by choosing Sort by name from the sorting options.
Un-assigning a task when sorting is enabled will no longer cause the Android app to crash. 😬

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2348; iOS 22.8.4; Android v10202; Android Wear w10161; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.7

Freshened Up: July 28 🧽

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A few bug fixes here, some little updates there, and your Todoist is back to looking fresh and feeling fine.

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

You can once again bold an entire task by adding ** to both sides of the task name. (eg. **Create accounting spreadsheet** becomes Create accounting spreadsheet.)
If you were having trouble adding sub-tasks within sections, that bug has now been squashed. 🎉

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

Hidden sub-tasks will stay hidden (until you choose to show them again).
You may have had a bonus blank task added to your project when using voice dictation. Not the most helpful type of bonus, agreed. That’s now fixed!

🐛 Minus Android bugs

You can delete a task from the widget once again without getting stuck on a load screen loop.
Reordering subtasks looked a little glitchy, but that’s back to running smoothly now.
When you complete a task in the notification center, the notification will now disappear. Instead of hanging around reminding you of that thing you just did.
Reminders are working on Android Wear once again.⏰

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2301; iOS 22.7.17; Android v10010; Android Wear w9969; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.7

Back By Popular Demand: July 14

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We thought it was the result of a bug, but you told us it was actually a handy feature. So, we’re now supporting every! x hour task recurrence!

Perfect if you want a task to recur a set amount of hours from when it was last completed (e.g., taking medication, walking the dog, checking work emails, etc). Currently available on the web app and iOS, with Android following soon.

⚙️ Plus improvements

Accidentally added ‘Everyone’ to a comment notification? You can now remove ‘Everyone’ with one click. Backtracking just got way more efficient.
Some fixes have been made to email notifications, so if you were having trouble with them, you should notice they’re sending reliably once again. 💌

🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs

The E shortcut for completing tasks now works in the new task view. You can get back to complete keyboard control.
Within a section, when adding a task above or below another task, the order of tasks got a little scrambled. No longer! Your task will stay exactly where you want it.
Keyboard shortcuts to move tasks up/down (⌘↑/⌘↓) didn’t work in board view, but that bug has been banished. 🙅‍♀️

🐛 Minus iOS bugs

When editing a task, the # shortcut created a label rather than a project. That was confusing and not what you expected, so we fixed it.
Your task count for Today view will now consistently show the right number of due tasks.

🐛 Minus Android bugs

Selecting the task breadcrumbs will now give you Go to... options. A vast improvement on the nothing it did before this fix.
Filters are once again working in Chinese languages on Android!
Sync has been tweaked, so you can get back to working seamlessly between all apps.
When selecting a task, the option to add a task above/below by selecting the three dots menu did a disappearing act. That’s now back where it belongs. ✨

🔢 Versions

Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2257; iOS 22.7.0; Android v10010; Android Wear w9969; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.7

Do you want to check out some of our older What's New entries? Go here to read all entries from the first half of 2022.

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