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I use it to capture what my thoughts and route based on content. I have a button that routes to an internal voice agent named KiKo. Ideas get routed to Things or todoist. Issues get routed to github, etc. It\u2019s one universal surface for note capture. But man is it ugly.", "context": "", "use_case": "task management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app"}, {"id": 781120385, "item_id": 48820024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820024", "by": "linsomniac", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.", "excerpt": ">I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now. I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app. 4-5 years ago I spent around a year refining a paper-and-pen daily planner, and I went 100% into it and liked it. The paper planner though had a non-ideal workflow, and so I wanted to look into some automation of it. I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. It had a great \"it's like ", "context": "", "use_case": "todo management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Diary of Tom Riddle, for the ReMarkable with LLM responds"}, {"id": 775360513, "item_id": 48460032, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460032", "by": "bohdanstefaniuk", "date": "2026-06-09", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "my own interpretation of Todoist and Things 3", "excerpt": "Not too much, speaking of public one which you can try: - Habit Tracked which allow to track not only habits (done, not done) but also numbers and time of the day - https://habitpocket.io/ - Todo list, my own interpretation of Todoist and Things 3 - https://taskpocket.io/ Both of the apps above was built using AI especially for the frontend. 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Of course, I am p", "context": "", "use_case": "Personal todo list", "switched_from": "org-mode", "story": "The Emacsification of Software"}, {"id": 763944113, "item_id": 47746507, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746507", "by": "craigmccaskill", "date": "2026-04-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "building an AI-native CLI for Todoist", "excerpt": "Outside of the day job (PM at an enterprise SaaS company), I've been building an AI-native CLI for Todoist [1]. Started to solve a personal problem, automating action item extraction from my Obsidian notes, but it's become something bigger. The CLI treats both humans and AI agents as first-class users: TTY-aware output, a schema command for agent discovery, idempotent operations, that kind of thing. It's been a great", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"}, {"id": 758937024, "item_id": 47433564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433564", "by": "jofzar", "date": "2026-03-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://www.todoist.com/", "excerpt": "I can't believe how common this is now, if you dont have screenshots AND a video you are shooting yourself in the foot. If anyone is curious of what I expect (in page order top to bottom) Screenshot of complete product ui with description (showing complete UI) Button to the download/buy product. Header/tagline description of feature below: Screenshot of individual parts of the UI (These are more often then not videos", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRocket"}, {"id": 754370000, "item_id": 47148125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148125", "by": "rga5321", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "In case anyone wants Todoist + Gcal events on the kindle", "excerpt": "In case anyone wants Todoist + Gcal events on the kindle, I coded a simple web app for that some years ago: https://github.com/rga5321/productivity-dashboard I am not using it anymore as I bought a TRMNL display and set up a simple template to do the same, but it worked well for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"}, {"id": 752919265, "item_id": 47057454, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057454", "by": "tonyarkles", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Todoist tickles my brain just right for that.", "excerpt": "> Maybe being AuDHD has something to do with it I used to live my entire life in emacs org-mode. My memory is shit, if I don\u2019t have a reminder of a task I need to do it probably won\u2019t get done. If someone asks me \u201chey, do you remember that thing we talked about in that meeting last week?\u201d the answer will be \u201cno, not at all\u201d. If I go \u201cdamn, what was that recipe for those pork chops I made last month that were really g", "context": "", "use_case": "Task management", "switched_from": "Org-mode", "story": "I Use Obsidian"}, {"id": 747230321, "item_id": 46701895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701895", "by": "hombreinabikin", "date": "2026-01-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I've been a developer for 6 years. I can architect APIs that scale and debug nasty race conditions. But I couldn't make myself go to the gym consistently. The Graveyard of Failed Systems I've tried Todoist, Notion, Pomodoro, habit trackers, morning routines, \"don't break the chain,\" Beeminder, public Twitter commitments. All abandoned within weeks. I read Atomic Habits. Understood the cue-routine-reward loop. Knew ab", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Built an Accountability App After Failing Every Productivity System for 6 Year"}, {"id": 746413666, "item_id": 46650854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650854", "by": "n8cpdx", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Used to be todoist loyalist but it sucks for habits.", "excerpt": "Here is my template from obsidian that I use for my weekly reflection - customize reflection based on your values and priorities. I have goals to improve work-life balance, social connections (social isolation was a factor driving poor outcomes, and through deliberate consistent effort I have solved this problem). Hyper scheduling: https://dev.to/maxpatiiuk/series/32301 (I stumbled upon this and implemented a form of", "context": "", "use_case": "habit tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) \u2013 A support app designed for ADHD brains"}, {"id": 746094770, "item_id": 46630923, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630923", "by": "Bishonen88", "date": "2026-01-15", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Clone of Todoist with the features that I actually use/want", "excerpt": "Similar experience here. Did sign up for Claude Code myself this week, too, given the $10/month promo. I have experience with AI by using AWS Kiro at work and directly prompting Claude Opus for convos. After just 2 days and ~5-6 vibe coding sessions in total I got a working Life-OS-App created for my needs. - Clone of Todoist with the features that I actually use/want. Projects, Tags, due dates, quick adding with a t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"}, {"id": 745772320, "item_id": 46610770, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610770", "by": "tonyarkles", "date": "2026-01-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My personal takeaway from it was to try Todoist, which has been a complete game changer in my life.", "excerpt": "https://borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd Came across this a few months ago on HN here and there\u2019s a fair bit of exposition on things you\u2019ve mentioned. My personal takeaway from it was to try Todoist, which has been a complete game changer in my life. I\u2019ve used other systems before but something about Todoist worked better for my brain (plus the mobile integration is awesome\u2026 my second best over the years wa", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"}, {"id": 743007474, "item_id": 46437967, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437967", "by": "matt_s", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "various apps like todoist, etc.", "excerpt": "The latest \"tool\" for me is just Apple Notes for me with a todo list of tasks on a page. Its a struggle for me to get any momentum going on personal projects. I think its because I'm a person that is externally motivated - like I know I get paid, promotions potentially, etc. via my employment. When it comes to personal projects I can't get going. I only mention this because I would also change out what/how I use to m", "context": "", "use_case": "task management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"}, {"id": 742914529, "item_id": 46432158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432158", "by": "wiether", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As a Todoist heavy user", "excerpt": "As a Todoist heavy user, I was intrigued by their switch to Superlist. According to their Privacy Policy, they sure are a German company and have their core infra on Hetzner, but they rely heavily on USA-based providers for CDN and others: https://www.superlist.com/privacy-policy Also, if they had a paid tier for Todoist, I don't see how the free-tier of Superlist will provide the same level of service/features. So o", "context": "", "use_case": "task management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500\u20ac/Year)"}, {"id": 742902564, "item_id": 46431410, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431410", "by": "lightandlight", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Next up I'm moving my TODOs off Todoist to something local-first", "excerpt": "This year I moved off LastPass, and started using [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) to sync my [KeepassXC](https://keepassxc.org/). It works pretty well, but doesn't have any automatic conflict resolution (I've been working on [something](https://github.com/LightAndLight/syncthing-merge) for this). Next up I'm moving my TODOs off Todoist to something local-first, and plugging that into my Syncthing setup.", "context": "", "use_case": "todo list", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500\u20ac/Year)"}]}