Fine Tuning: June 16
Nothing much to see here. Just the regular aligning and refining you’ve come to expect. Your Todoist is now running smoother and looking even more polished in many oh-so-subtle ways.
Have you ever thought of becoming a Todoist Experimentalist? 🧬
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Small design tweaks to make Todoist easier on the eyes.
- Breadcrumbs stay clickable on completed tasks, making it possible to navigate back to parent tasks or projects.
- When inviting multiple collaborators to a project, you can now add them at once by inserting a comma between each name or email address. 👯
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- You can once again type !!1, !!2, !!3, or !!4 to set your task priority, and it will save as expected.
- You can now also type your priorities in as P1, P2, P3, or P4 in either uppercase or lowercase, and Todoist will understand.
- A few small bugs that popped up when typing in due dates across multiple languages have now been squished.
- If you spotted some odd color choices in Todoist lately, we were just testing you. All is now looking as it should. 🎨
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- A few of you encountered weird login issues, but that was quickly fixed.
- Tapping on a task that had been indented a few times was making some apps crash. No one needs that, so the bug has been squashed.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Reminders are working once again for rescheduled tasks on Android Wear. Phew! ⏰
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2178; iOS 22.6.4; Android v9878; Android Wear w9837; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.7Introducing New Task View: May 24 ✨
Smarter, bigger, faster, longer… Not how the song goes exactly, but precisely what you’ll find with the launch of the all-new task view! 🥳 If you value hyper-speed task navigation, beautiful design, and accessibility as a core function, you’re in for a treat.
The Todoist team has taken years of feedback and spent months perfecting every pixel to bring this task view to life. A special shout-out also goes to the Experimentalist community, whose road testing has been fundamental to developing this feature.
In fact, there are so many updates to obsess over that there is an entire blog post published to walk you through it. So settle in, and let Alex show you all the details.
If you dream a little dream of being part of the Doist team (and are better at writing accidental rhymes than that rubbish)... We’re hiring!
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Small visual improvements to keep Todoist looking polished.
- On iOS, you can now end those repeat tasks quicker by long pressing your task until the menu pops up, then selecting ‘Complete Forever’. A quick reminder that you can also do this on all devices from the three dots icon on your task. Oh, the satisfaction! 😌
- Typing !! on web will now bring up the priority dropdown, just like all other platforms.
- You can now strikethrough text on Android Wear by putting ~~ on either side of the word you’d like to strikethrough.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- If you moved a task from Upcoming/Today view to another project, then removed the due date, you may have experienced a crash. It’s a niche bug, but niche or not, it’s fixed.
- When you react to comments with an emoji, your view will now stay put instead of an unsolicited scroll to the top.
- When editing a task due date, if your scheduler went a little wonky, that won’t happen anymore.
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- Dragging a subtask outside of the "Task Details" into a board no longer crashes the app. Phew!
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- On Android Wear, if a task has a scheduled time, that time will now show under the task. Handy to have this, especially on your watch, no?
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2083; iOS 22.5.9; Android v9730; Android Wear w9689; Windows 1.0.8; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6Little Flourishes and Keeping Bugs at Bay: May 11
Once in a while, it’s nice to switch focus from battling bugs and working on new features (🤫) to add a little flourish or two.
In Upcoming view on your desktop or browser, when you hover over a date in the future, you’ll see a tooltip showcasing the number of tasks due that day. You’ll also see a bar showcasing the colors of the projects you’re working on. Consider it your rainbow of future productivity! 🌈
There are also some exciting updates on Todoist Experimentalists! To learn more about that magic, visit the dedicated Experimentalists Features page. 🧙
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Sorting tasks just got quicker! You can now drag tasks into both your Inbox and your favorited projects.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- Adding a project as a board view will stay as a board view. No more switching to list view nonsense.
- Quick Add crashing when adding a new section to a new project is a thing of the past!
- Todoist will once again recognize “no date” and “no due date” to mean exactly what they say.
- Safari got lonely for a minute. When typing @, you’ll now see a list of your collaborators rather than an empty box.
- If you tried opening comments on an archived project and hit a blank page, that won’t happen anymore.
- You can discard your settings changes with reckless abandon again. Todoist won’t freeze in fear. Promise.
- You can select the three dots icon on a completed task once again. No errors will show. Hopefully.
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- If you decided to move a task, your Inbox had done a disappearing act. You’ll now see Inbox appear again on the list of places to move it.
- When using VoiceOver, your number of tasks in Inbox and Today View is now accurate.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Crashes on Android 7, widget functions, and reminders settings have been fixed. Crashes are annoying for all (Todoist developers included), so everyone can be happy they’re gone.
- When you changed your avatar image, it’s probably because you wanted to change your avatar image, not have it stay the same. So that’s working as expected now.
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 2023; iOS 22.4.9; Android v9632; Android Wear w9591; Windows 1.0.7; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6Garden Friendly Bug Squashing: Apr 13
While it’s fun to share about fancy new features, sometimes, like hedges, trees and lawns, it’s all about the maintenance. And while there has been a ton of bug squashing going on at Todoist, please don’t apply that same logic to your horticulture. Let that ecosystem thrive. 🌸🐝🐞
Read on if you want the details of all of the (non-living) bugs exterminated.
You’ll find some exciting updates on Todoist Experimentalists! To learn more about that alchemy, visit the dedicated Experimentalists Features page. ⚗️
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- Syncing tasks between web and mobile got glitchy. That’s not what you need while adding tasks on the go. It’s fixed now, so you can get back to seamlessly managing your to-do’s.
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- You can now use Tab on an iPad keyboard exactly how you’d use it on MacOS to jump from task title to description.
- If you experienced a crash when you created a filter query that referred to a project, that’s fixed now. So you can filter away until your heart is content. 😌
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- When you tried to rename a project, you couldn’t see the update right away. That’s now back to updating at lighting speed. ⚡
- You can once again move a task to another section within your projects without a hitch.
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing: Web 1988; iOS 22.3.19; Android v9460; Android Wear w9419; Windows 1.0.7; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6Spring Clean Your Todoist: Mar 30
Deleting tasks is an integral part of managing a healthy to-do list, and it’s now easier than ever with Todoist’s new swipe to delete action on mobile.
Whether some tasks are outdated, unlikely to be completed, or just don’t serve you anymore, the relief and clarity you can feel from deleting those redundant tasks are second to none. 😌 Of course, capturing tasks as soon as they pop into your head is a great thing, but reviewing your Todoist and keeping everything ship-shape and actionable is where the magic happens. ✨
You have complete control over your mobile swipe actions and can choose to either swipe left or right to select, complete, schedule or now… delete! Just go to Settings > General > Swipe Actions to set your preference.
There have been lots of updates for Todoist Experimentalists too. To keep on top of that magic, visit the dedicated Experimentalists Features page. 🧪
⚙️ Plus improvements
- You can now start capturing tasks right away in board view, rather than having to add a section first. Smarter, better, faster task adding.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- You can once again duplicate any project from the project three dots icon.
- In board view, completed tasks without a section did a disappearing act! Those are back now, so you can see completed tasks whether they’re in a section or not.
- The copy link shortcut (⇧⌘, or ⇧Ctrl,) is back to working as expected.
- Keyboard navigation just got smoother, with the focus remaining on a task once it’s been indented.
- It’s now quicker to add tasks to an empty label screen with the addition of a new + Add task button.
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- Emoji reactions to comments went a little awry, but they are back to working just as you’d expect.
- When using Voice Control, you’ll now find it easier to complete a task with checkbox number tags in place.
- If you were one of the few that experienced an app crash when adding tasks after sorting, don’t worry! That’s fixed now.
- When you drag and drop a task to a label, this once again assigns the label to your task.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- You can drag and drop tasks to different sections, even when sorting is enabled.
- Subtle fixes across the board to make Todoist faster, bug-free, and easier on the eyes.
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing:Web 1977; iOS 22.3.8; Android v9378; Android Wear w9337; Windows 1.0.7; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6
Experiment in progress: Mar 9
Todoist Experimentalists are currently testing out a new task view. Lately, there have been quantum leaps in bringing this updated task view to life. To see what all the fuss is about (and be among the first to access other test features), simply enable experimental features.
As for Todoist in general, spring cleaning has commenced (bugs begone!), and a few tweaks and improvements have everything feeling fresh. ✨
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Subtle shortcut grouping makes finding the right action in the command menu (
⌘KorCtrlK) so much easier. - You can now reschedule your overdue tasks via the command menu by selecting ‘Reschedule overdue.’ 📅
- The new option to ping Everyone from the notify bar in comments helps keep all of your task collaborators in the loop.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- Your sub-tasks will now stay as sub-tasks when you duplicate a section within a project. No more manual rejigging.
- Audio recordings for comments are now back on Safari, and you can once again playback your audio comments before sending them.
- You can now navigate the command menu by using [Tab] to toggle down the list and [Shift+ Tab] to toggle up.
- Dragging and dropping files into comments is working as you’d expect.
If you complete a sub-task with labels, those labels will still show. Just like they should!
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- There have been a ton of small bug squashes and app improvements to keep Todoist in great shape.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Creating a project offline was a bit buggy. That’s fixed, so your projects will sync flawlessly offline and online.
- If you input a word that could be a date like “May” and then add another letter like “o” to make “Mayo,” the task would break. That’s now fixed. So you can get back to making your grocery list in peace.
🔢 Versions
Latest versions at the time of publishing:Web 1923; iOS 22.2.12; Android v9304; Android Wear w9263; Windows 1.0.7; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6
New macOS widget: Feb 16
Introducing a brand new Today widget for macOS! Kickstart your day with a glance at your to-dos and keep on top of your priorities with this handy Apple companion. To install, simply:
- Select the time at the top corner of your screen
- Scroll, then select Edit Widgets
- Choose Todoist from the list, and now you have a birds-eye view of your day
Three sizes let you decide how detail-rich you want that view to be. Available on macOS Big Sur and above.
Don’t have the Todoist macOS app? Download it here or via the app store.
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Smoothly move tasks to sections (and not just projects) from anywhere in Todoist on Android.
- In the Filters & Labels view, if you select a filter or label then want to return to this view, we’ll bring you right back to where you left off. No more scrolling to find the right spot.
- Navigate in your Filters & Labels view without leaving your keyboard. Press
J,K,↑,↓to focus on the first item. ThenJor↓to navigate down the list andKor↑to navigate back up.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- If you add and edit a task from Twist, the formatting stays just how you expect it.
- A few other cosmetic touches to keep Todoist looking its best. 👑
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- Your widget won’t crash anymore when there’s information missing. You’ll just get a prompt to add it instead.
- If you add a location-based reminder but don’t have the right permissions set, you’ll now get a nudge that shows you how.
- Today view will once again display tasks due today for both you and everyone else. Only want to see your tasks? Select View > Assigned to > Only me.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- When dragging tasks and projects, they didn’t always behave themselves. That’s fixed now.
- You might have noticed that links to comments or tasks within tasks (how meta) didn’t open as expected. That was a bit silly; now it’s fixed.
- No more scrolling to see the Save button. All action buttons are visible, so you can, well, take action!
- When sharing a website from Chrome as a comment in Todoist, a link will auto-magically appear for you. ✨
- You can now save and download images shared in the comments again.
- When you sort something in order, you expect it to stay in that order. Thankfully, that’s once again the case.
🔢 Versions
Web 1827; iOS 22.2.9; Android 9172; Android Wear 9131; Windows 1.0.5; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.6New in 2022: Feb 1
Getting focused for February? Well, that’s easier than ever with a heap of updates created to bring you more joy (hello reactions 🤩) and speed (like easy-to-learn keyboard shortcuts).
Comments: leveled up 🎮
Commenting on tasks and projects keeps things moving forward with family, colleagues, and peers. Now you can keep everyone in the loop with new @mentions and a hyper intuitive notify field. Just start typing a collaborator’s name and select the person you want to ping!
The fun part? You can now also add every single emoji reaction to comments. Use this expanded power to acknowledge 👀, vote ✔️, celebrate 🎉, or thank 🙏🏻 your team.
Shortcut magic 🧞
Smooth, efficient, and — dare we say it — magical. That’s how you’ll feel when using the 39 new keyboard shortcuts. Add tasks, switch views, and open settings with just your fingertips.
Discover (and learn) every last shortcut with the all-new command menu. Hit ⌘ K (macOS) or Ctrl K (Windows). Managing your tasks now feels like magic. 🔮
“Whatever you want to do in Todoist, there's probably a shortcut for it,” says Todoist Product Designer Alex. “And we couldn't have created the command menu without the help of our Todoist experimentalists, who shaped this feature with their feedback.”
All-new views 👓
Filters and labels give you control over how to view your tasks. You’ll now find them together in the main navigation menu, just after Upcoming. Favorite your filters to make finding them even speedier.
Views got an upgrade, too: Once in a project, you can now sort your tasks exactly how you like them with a single click of View. Naomi, the Todoist copywriter, uses the new option to group her tasks by priority to make sure she’s tackling what’s most important first. ✅
Super-smart Apple 🍎
Turn a scribbled note into a neat, organized task or description in Todoist. Simply use the scan button for Quick Add (it works with any other Live Text, too).
Plus, you can now copy and paste multiple tasks on the go. Turn ingredients lists from recipes into a shopping list on your way to the store. Or be like Todoist iOS Developer Carrasco and use it to gather all software bug reports into an Issues & Improvements project.
Award-winning Android 🏆
Navigating Todoist in Android just got faster. Hold down the menu icon to bring up Inbox, Today, and Upcoming, followed by your favorites or five recently opened views. Perfect for finding what you need on the go or taking a glance at your schedule, all in one super-swift action.
Speed up your capture and flows with new customization options for the buttons of your bottom app bar. It’s especially fantastic for lefties! In Todoist settings, select Bottom app bar to make it how you like it.
And don't forget to follow Todoist on Twitter. Did you see that the Android team won the 2021 Material Design Award?!
Last, but not least
- Aim for ultimate automation in 2022! IFTTT & Integromat now let you connect all your other apps to Todoist sections and task descriptions.
- Plus, create your own integration with new, simplified software development kits (SDKs).
- Automatic Dark Mode is back for macOS. Scroll down to see every last bug squash and update from 2021.
- Join the team! We're hiring:
- Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
- Senior Android Engineer
- And if you’d like to write changelogs like this one, try out the Senior Product Marketer role!
P.S. Did you know we make another app? Twist is the only async work messaging app — built for teams burned out by real-time, all-the-time communication and ready for a new way of working together.
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Navigate in your Filters & Labels view without leaving your keyboard. Press
J,K,↑,↓to focus on the first item. ThenJor↓to navigate down the list andKor↑to navigate back up.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- Hit
⌘0to speedily open your Todoist app window on your macOS. - Take actions even faster! Now when you open the command menu (
⌘KorCtrlK) while focused on a task, the shortcuts shown are now tailored specifically for task actions, rather than any old action. - Caps lock frustration no more! Keyboard shortcuts now work whether you type in uppercase, lowercase, or both.
- Plus, keyboard shortcuts now work better with Russian keyboard layouts.
- If you delete an archived project, it’s now gone for good and won’t stay on your archived project list. Just like it should!
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Opening comments will no longer also open up the last attachment. That’s because Todoist should only do as told.
- You’ll now see the right number of collaborators when editing a shared project.
- Changing labels from private to shared and then managing those tasks works as expected — perfect for the super sharers out there!
- The text color in your productivity widget once again matches your carefully chosen theme.
- If you use Todoist Free, you can now view your activity for the last seven days rather than just the current week.
🔢 Versions
Web 1712; iOS 22.1.7; Android 9104; Android Wear 9063; Windows 1.0.5; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.5
Comments upgrade: Jan 19
Working on projects with colleagues, fellow students, or family members just got a whole lot easier. Discuss the finer details of any task — or even the whole shared project — now that comments let you get your team’s attention, quickly notify the right people, and add reactions. Plus, the entire comments tab now looks a little more modern.
- Directly ping teammates inside comments with new @mentions*
- Start typing a name inside your notify field and Todoist will quickly fill in the rest
- React to comments with every emoji in the books 📚
*You can still use @ before your labels when you’re adding or editing the task itself.
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Turn tasks into sub-tasks (or sub-tasks into tasks) with your keyboard. Inside your project, use your arrows to focus on the task. Increase the indent of that task with
⌘→. Decrease that indent with⌘←.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- You’ll no longer be able to set reminders without a time. That just defeats the purpose!
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Customizing the buttons on your bottom app bar might have meant your buttons were roaming around of their own accord. That bug has been squashed! All your buttons now stay exactly where you want them. 😌
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- Add a task and a little message appears at the top of your screen. You can once again open the task you just added directly from that message — rather than needing to search for it.
🔢 Versions
Web 1658; iOS 22.1.7; Android 9026; Android Wear 8985; Windows 1.0.3; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.4
Filters & Labels view: Jan 11
Stop searching for filters and labels — now you’ll find them all in a single spot in your navigation menu! This not only clears up the clutter of your menu but also allows you to quickly scan one view to find what you're looking for.
Why filters and labels? They both let you sort your tasks so getting things checked off feels effortless.
Filters let you save your task searches so you can find exactly what you need in seconds — like all priority 1 work-related tasks due Monday. Labels, on the other hand, let you group similar tasks together, like every email you need to send or all tasks that take 15 minutes.
Customize your bottom app bar on Android
Make your Todoist feel more like you by changing the location of your dynamic add button — you can choose to keep it in the center, move it to the right, or move it to the left. And there’s more: You can also change the order of the menu, search, and notification buttons. All this is available by going to Todoist settings then selecting Bottom app bar. Learn more.
Automatic Dark Mode for macOS
While ticking off task after task in Todoist can be a bright spot in your day, it shouldn't be glaring! Give your eyes a break with Dark Mode. Todoist now auto-switches between dark and light mode to match the rest of your macOS.
⚙️ Plus improvements
- Add a task on your desktop, see a little message at the bottom of your screen. Now you can open the task you just added directly from that message — rather than needing to search for it.
🐛 Minus web and desktop bugs
- Tasks with links back to emails in Gmail were broken. No longer. Happy Inbox Zeroing!
- Couldn’t access your settings? That’s fixed too.
🐛 Minus Android bugs
- Once again, when you open Todoist notifications you’ll end up in the correct task — even with your Android 12.
- Tap more than twice when using Quick Add and Todoist will remain alive and well.
- Add a color to your label, as usual. (Then take a look at it from your new Filters & Labels view!)
🐛 Minus iOS bugs
- Using VoiceOver in any other language than English occasionally caused English button titles to be read — but with your language’s pronunciation. That’s not good, so it’s fixed.
- The beauty of Todoist is quickly adding task after task — which is harder if the app crashes when you’re doing just that. Not anymore!
🔢 Versions
Web 1644; iOS 22.1.2; Android 8988; Android Wear w8947; Windows 1.0.3; Linux 1.0.1; macOS 8.0.4