Use Google Chrome with Todoist

View your Todoist task list

To get a quick look at Todoist from your browser, click the Todoist icon in your extensions bar in the top right. A compact view of Todoist will appear below the address bar. 

The compact view is a great way to save time. You can access any of Todoist's features without leaving the current web page.

Right-click a website to add it as a task

With the Chrome extension installed, right-click any website to quickly add it as a link in a Todoist task:

1. Go to the website you'd like to add as a task.
2. Right click anywhere on the page and select Add to Todoist. This opens Quick Add in a pop-up window.
3. Make additional changes, such as selecting the task project, add a label, assign a date and time, and more.
4. Click Add task to save the task.

Use Quick Add to add a website as a task

Use Quick Add to add the website as a task to Todoist:

1. Click the Todoist icon in your extensions bar in the top right.
2. Click the + icon at the top bar to open Quick Add.
3. Click Add website as task at the bottom to add the page and URL as the task name.
4. Click Add task to save the task.

Use Quick Add to add selected text as a task

Spot a quote or paragraph that you want to save to Todoist? Here's how to capture it as a task:

1. Open the website where you found the text to capture as a task.
2. Select or highlight the text.
3. Right-click the selected text and choose Add to Todoist. This opens Quick Add in a pop-up window.
4. Make additional changes, such as selecting the task project, add a label, assign a date and time, and more.
5. Click Add task to save the task.

Use keyboard shortcuts to add a task.

Stay productive in Todoist without needing to lift a finger to click. Here's how to find and set up keyboard shortcuts for Todoist for Chrome.

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Right-click the Todoist icon at the top-right.
3. Select Manage Extensions.
4. Click the three horizontal lines icon in the top-left corner.
5. Select Keyboard shortcuts. You'll now see a list of all of your extensions that have implemented keyboard shortcuts. 
6. Find Todoist for Chrome in the list.
7. Use your preferred keyboard shortcut.

You can now set two keyboard shortcuts: Activate the extension and Add to Todoist.

Set the default task date to Today

If you want any new task to automatically be scheduled to today, set it as the default task date:

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click the Todoist icon at the top-right.
3. Select Manage Extensions.
4. Click Extension options.
5. Find the Set default due date for 'Today' option.
6. Click the checkbox next to it.

Add tasks through Gmail

With the Chrome extension, you can turn emails into Todoist tasks or open these same emails through Todoist. Find the steps to do so here.