Item: Todoist
Rating: 8
Author: Michael Ullman

Overall Satisfaction with Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Todoist is the central hub for all of our project management, task delegation, and workflow; we use it to group all of our projects by product, break out the necessary tasks, attach the relevant documents and links, and track progress by project and by team member. It is easily our single most used and relied upon tool.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Near-perfect cross-platform availability and synchronization
Excellent GUI that makes creating, editing, and managing projects quick and easy
Well thought-out feature set
Continual updating and new feature roll-outs
Fantastic value

Cons

Understanding the different views takes a little getting used to
List of direct supported integrations is a little sparse

Most Important Features

Easy reminder/alarm setting
Google Assistant integration
Mobile widget
Toggle between list and board view for projects

Return on Investment

We are waaaay more productive overall!
Better delegation and tracking gives me a better ROI from our VA's and outsourcing
A better sense of control over our overall progress

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp

We moved from Basecamp to Todoist.

As a 5-year Basecamp user (and fan), it was quite a leap to shift over to Todoist, but it was a crucial move, giving us far greater productivity, and better cross-platform and cross-team functionality.

Key Insights

Do you think Todoist delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Todoist's feature set?

Yes

Did Todoist live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Todoist go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Todoist again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Canva, Shopify, Camtasia, KeywordSpy, ActiveCampaign

Likelihood to Recommend

Our business model - development & marketing of training materials and courseware - is a very iterative process: course materials are constantly being updated based on new resources, technology changes, and member feedback, which then has to be reflected in our marketing efforts.

As such, there is a constant stream of new to-do's. Without a quick, easy, cross-platform project & task manager, it would quickly spiral out of control and become a mess of unassigned or forgotten tasks and ideas.

On the other hand, if the process of entering and managing these tasks was onerous, it just wouldn't be done.

Todoist fills a 'sweet spot' for us between ease & capabilities.

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Capable, lightweight task & project manager that significantly improved our productivity!