Todoist in general is getting really boring. The UI need alot of work honestly. It feels like a structural engineer was given the job to design the whole thing. Everything is functional yes but that doesnt mean it looks good or enjoyable to use. Give it to an architect or someone with some creativity and good sense of design to actually make something nice out of it. I think this alone will go a very long way. Right now everything just feels too plain and rigid, nothing really exciting about using it.

And another thing I really dont understand is the calendar. Lets say I have one task that I want to work on at different times of the day. Maybe 30 mins in the morning, another hour in afternoon and then again later in evening. Why cant I just put the same task in those different time slots? Why do I need to duplicate the same task 2 or 3 times just to make this work? This makes no sense to me at all. Its literally one task, I'm just planning to work on it at different times. Now I end up with multiple copies of the same task and then what, which one am I supposed to complete? Its just creating more mess for something that should be very simple.

I feel like Todoist is focusing too much on keeping things minimal but sometimes minimal doesnt mean better. There is a difference between simple and just boring. The foundation is already there but the UI and calendar experience really need some serious thinking. Its a productivity app, using it everyday should feel good too, not just something that gets the job done.

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** https://github.com/cnxguy/tdui-releases/releases/latest **

I have integrated Todoist a lot - vscode, obsidian, browsers, flow launcher, win explorer and terminals, all over the place.

I really wanted to like the td cli, but always found it clunky and I couldn’t find a TUI (terminal UI) that fit how I work.

So I "vibe coded" a POC TUI in go so I can run on Win, Mac and Linux command lines using Bubble Tea (which I'd used before in some non-vibe coded apps I created)

Of course, this is just my for my itch (maybe others just did the same as I did?) - but I wondered if there is there any community interest in a TUI for Todoist? It would take a little work to open source what I have, but I thought I'd ask to see if there was interest before I do any extra work on it.

It's called tdui, here is a quick overview:

A terminal UI for Todoist, built with Bubble Tea and communicating with the Todoist API directly.

Browse tasks by view (Inbox, Today, Upcoming, All, plus up to three tabs of your own), a project, or any Todoist filter, then complete, edit, reschedule, reprioritise, move or delete a task, or manage its comments, without leaving the terminal.

Every fetch is cached (in memory for the session, on disk across runs), so switching views or reopening the app paints instantly from the last known data while a fresh copy loads in the background.

tdui needs a Todoist API token. It's read from $TODOIST_API_TOKEN if set, otherwise from the system keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Secret Service on Linux). With neither, tdui asks for one on startup and stores it in the keychain, or in ~/.config/tdui/token (mode 600) on machines without one.

Features - Quick Add (a) with Todoist's natural-language syntax: dates, p1–p4, #project, @label. - Typing # or @ suggests matching projects and labels. - Filter or search (/) with any Todoist filter (today & #Work, p1 | @waiting) or plain words. Project and label suggestions work here too, including after (, !, &, | and for ##project. - Your own tabs (,): add up to three saved filters, labels or projects as tabs, and put all the tabs in the order that suits you. - Command palette (ctrl+k or :) for actions, views, projects, labels and themes. - Sub-tasks, comments, labels, moving between projects. - Postpone a recurring task (t): to tomorrow, next week, the next occurrence, or a date you type - Priority groups (p) or section headings (h), remembered per view. Section headings name the project too in views that span projects (Home › Shopping). - Productivity popup (i): tasks completed today and over the last 7 days, goals and streaks. - Markdown shown formatted, as Todoist writes it: bold, italic, struck, code and links in task names; headings, lists, quotes and code blocks too in descriptions and comments. Links are clickable. - Themes (, then t, or Theme in the palette): Todoist, Dracula, Tokyo Night, GitHub and Charm.

Would you use this?

I don't use Ramble all that often, but lately, every time I do, I end up spending more time fighting with it than actually getting anything done.

It splits things into multiple tasks when I'm trying to create one, changes details I never asked it to change, and struggles with basic corrections. Eventually, I get frustrated and give up.

Meanwhile, the ChatGPT integration just works. It understands what I'm asking, handles corrections, and generally does what I expect.

Which makes me wonder: Is Ramble actually getting worse, or are other AI tools improving so quickly that Ramble just feels like it's moving backwards?

This is part of a broader frustration I have with companies developing their own AI features. Why try to compete with Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic when you can integrate their existing tools and focus on what makes your product valuable?

For Todoist, that's task management, UI, UX, and workflow improvements. Building an inferior AI experience seems like a waste of development resources, especially when there are plenty of opportunities to improve the core product.

Curious if others feel the same way.

We often ask people what features they would like to see in Todoist and the responses are the big features that everyone wants (en Eisenhower matrix, repeating deadlines…) but what I want to know is the features or fixes you would like to see in Todoist that are not that obvious for others

For the full video: https://x.com/amix3k/status/2113703930844582066?