r/todoist

Hi everyone,

I have a recurring task that occurs every Tuesday. When I am unable to complete this task on Tuesday, it moves to the next day, or the following days, until I complete it. This is good, as I would like to keep it on my to do list until I complete it.

However, when I do not complete this task on Tuesday, the next day (by Wednesday), it is no longer a recurring task. Meaning, I complete it later (on Wednesday or Thursday), but next week, it is no longer a recurring task on Tuesday - it just disappears.

How can I keep an overdue recurring task, recurring for it's next date, instead of losing it's "recurring status"? I would like this task to occur every Tuesday even if I am late in completing it.

Thanks so much for your help.

I really want to love Todoist. Compared with TickTick and other alternatives, I prefer its brand, its European roots, and the way the company feels genuinely embodied by its founder and team.

But as a Mac/iPhone user, two things are deal-breakers for me:

• No simple, native import from Apple Reminders, while Things and TickTick handle this much better.
• No real way to import or integrate iCloud calendars.

That’s a shame, because Todoist gets so much right otherwise. Apple users are often willing to pay for well-designed software, but only if it fits naturally into the ecosystem they already use.

Am I missing a workaround, or is iCloud simply not a priority for Todoist?

I have been in search of the best productivity tool for like 3 years now, till i found todoist. for the last month i am using it and i am in love with this app. but as i was a a pro at procastination, search was still on, I like organising things, you know putting them into category, labels etc. for me 5 projects werent enough so i always felt limited. But then i told myself that i will use this and stick to this todoist free plan in this 2026, and in 2027 i will buy the pro plan and then i can have as many projects as i can. but today something happened and i took the free 7 days trial on my another account. It was amazing guys, you know it was like dream come true, now i can do more organise and feel productive (obviously just another form of procastination on things that i should be doing) 9 hours passed now and i think now i dont feel that excitement, and realising that its not the more projects or feature i need, its my clarity on doing the things that are important to me.

i use reddit a lot. learning about productivity, notes, and other interest, this is first time i am writing, for myself. that these apps are just tools nothing else.

BTW Todoist team, well done you made a great app, and your free features are more than enough to get the job done, I appreciate you guys, one day i will support you by purchasing the subscription.

thanks for reading.

Earlier today I revived an email to sponsor one of my videos. They claimed to work for todoist and said their name was Carly Harris, I then asked for confirmation that they did in fact work for this company and the email was no longer reachable. Can anyone help me?

Trying out Todoist again.

Want to manage projects

Tasks last days and weeks.

Can’t do that! Why? It’s 2026!

Any workarounds or have I misunderstood??

Sorry for the ramble. Just curious, high level, philosophy-wise, if anyone else has encountered this kind of thinking.

I've found myself the past year or so starting to use labels to categorize into a few broad buckets: quick, comms, admin hour, deep work

...and rarely using projects. I used to use projects religiously. My Todoist is a mix of personal and business, and my business work often has 5-10 active projects for different clients at a time, so it made a ton of sense.

But my realization was that I like to do the same kind of work in the same time span, and that way of bucketing actually feels more streamlined to work through.

My problem is that it's much harder to move items from one label to another (you can't drag and drop for example, and label selection picker is not as easy to get to as project picker).

So I am considering switching to a system where I just have a few "projects" for each of these work type buckets. But that feels dumb to throw away the ability to apply granular projects when it would help me.

WHY?

Why does it seem to be an absolute refusal enabling drag and drop functionality?

It makes me want to chuck the whole app. I have yet to see a reason that makes sense - actually can't seem to find where to Doist remotely articulates why they refuse to enable basic intuitive functionality.

This shouldn't make me angry but it's infuriating. Just me? Gah.

Edited to specify:

Dragging tasks within a project to a different date or groupin does not work.

Hi,
I am an engineer and started using Todoist since some time. While I follow the discussion, I think I am missing something.

I am coming from notepads, so I just list things and cross out.

Now, I create tasks without due date. I just need to get them done. To use at least some functionality, I started giving priorities, so with the "All" filter I use as my main screen, they are sorted as per my priorities.

What do you think?

I discovered the next 7 days view on the desktop, and mistakenly switched it to Kanban and I think it's changing my life. So easy to plan my week, and I love that's it's always the next 7 days, not this week. This view is not available on the iOS apps, I've tried to recreate it, but can't, the days don't show up individually, just 'Today' and 'Tomorrow' and then the rest of the week all jumbled together.

Not a segmented CSV. We need a unified backup that can recreate/repair our data in a single import, or repair borked data. All we have now is what looks like a fork of the template code (or maybe templates started as a fork of the backup.)

The restore should create new records that don't exist and flag duplicate tasks with a checkbox to replace/ignore the record.

I prefer JSON but if CSV is the only option it's OK as long as everything is exported as a mirror of the existing data.

I reported what I thought might be an API bug to TD in July and it was escalated to Engineering as a possible broken index on July 16th. While support was incredibly helpful (thank you u/Melis!), it's been a month of crickets from Engineering. (The bug concerns tasks not included in search results via the UI and API that are fetchable with a task ID.) It has forced me to add one-off exceptions to my Claude processes.

If Todoist doesn't consider a broken index (or borked search code) important, they should at least provide a real backup to protect our data.

I absolutely love Todoist, but I’m not quite sure what to do with my reference lists. For example, where would you keep things like Places to Go, Books to Read, or other lists that you want to save for later but don’t necessarily want to turn into tasks?

Also, does Todoist have a character limit for task descriptions? I’m wondering if I could use descriptions to store longer checklists, or if that would eventually become impractical.

I’d love to hear how you guys organize this kind of stuff in Todoist. Any tips would be appreciated!

Is there a way to have one task change the "assigned to" given the day of the week?

Right now I have multiple (weekly recurring) tasks for several members to complete one (daily) task.

For a simple example: Task is "Empty Dishwasher" and needs to be done daily. Mom does this on Mondays/Thursday, Dad on Tuesdays/Friday, Child on Wednesdays/Saturday, etc.... I'd like to have one task that changes the "assigned to" field given the day of the week. Right now I have multiple tasks to cover the "Empty Dishwasher" and the only difference is day of week and who is assigned. Using the dishwasher example, I have:

* Mom empties dishwasher on Mondays and Thursdays (recurring weekly)

* Dad empties dishwasher on Tuesdays and Fridays (recurring weekly)

* Child empties dishwasher on Wednesdays and Saturdays (recurring weekly)

I'd like one task that recurs daily but the "assigned to" field changes given the day of the week.

I am fed up with Todoist Notifications not being delivered on time. I don't get the notification unless I turn the screen on my phone (not unlock, just pressing the power button once or tapping it to light it up).

You keep adding features and what not but the basic function is not working. What's the point of having a Reminder app if the reminders are not going through on time. Really disappointed.

Device: Vivo

I have set battery optimization to "allow in background" so that's not the issue either.

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I’m trying to create an all-day recurring "every!" task with a recurring reminder using Quick Add.

Regular "every" reminders work, but they can get out of sync with an "every!" task, since the task’s next occurrence depends on when it was completed.

The only workaround I’ve found is to create the all-day "every!" task first, then open it and add the reminder separately.

Adding a due time isn’t ideal either, because timed tasks are always placed above untimed tasks in Today, so I can’t reorder them where I want.

And with Urgent reminders now being another reminder type, I don’t even know where Urgent syntax is supposed to fit into all of this.

Is there any Quick Add syntax for this, or is it currently not supported?

Hi all, is there a way to manually sort folders? Thanks in advance.

I'm using Android so right now on the phone widget you're not able to see this event. If you go onto the desktop you could see it on the top of your task list but it's not an actual task with the time so I'm not able to view it on the Android widget. Thanks for any workarounds or suggestions.

I started using Todoist a ~month ago, and it's nice enough but I don't understand how I'm supposed to deal with notifications.

I don't have many scheduled items in Todoist, meetings etc end up in my calendar so most tasks end up unscheduled. But I have added some tasks to be done on specific days.

I want a notification when I have an item due. But I don't want the daily "You have no tasks scheduled for today" notifications when I haven't scheduled anything. This seems like a pretty common use case, but I don't understand how to set the notification settings up this way?

In fact, I just found out I forgot an item a couple days ago because I've been ignoring the daily "You have nothing scheduled for today" notifications and therefore ignored it when it said I had an item as well.