A task list tells you what. It never tells you when.
Todoist is where the work gets captured. The reason it keeps rolling over to tomorrow is that nothing on it has an hour. Connect it and your tasks land on a real day, at a real time, next to the meetings that were going to eat that time anyway.
Due time becomes a block
A task with a due time arrives on the ring as a block you can move, resize and colour like any other. Schedule it, edit it, or drag it somewhere it actually fits.
Undated tasks wait in your Inbox
A task with no time does not get an hour invented for it. It waits in your Inbox, sized and coloured, until you drag it onto a day with room. Choose per project whether undated tasks come across at all.
Check it off anywhere
Tick it on the dial and Todoist has it. Finish it in Todoist and it is marked done here. There is no winner and no merge to resolve.
Todoist stays your task list
This does not replace Todoist and does not try to. Your projects, labels, filters and capture habits stay exactly where they are; Reassign only answers the question Todoist does not, which is when. Disconnect whenever you like and your Todoist is untouched.
This page is the what and the why. For the step by step, the docs cover the same ground as instructions: Todoist sync in the docs →
Questions
- Do I have to give up Todoist?
- No. Keep capturing there exactly as you do now. Reassign gives the tasks an hour and hands the result back.
- What happens to tasks with no due date?
- They wait in your Inbox rather than being scattered onto the dial, and you choose per project whether they sync at all.
- Which other task apps sync?
- Todoist is the one that syncs today. Microsoft To Do, Asana, Linear and GitHub are on the roadmap and not available yet.