

Microsoft To-Do is available on the web, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS platform.

The objective is to reach your end goals. If you need the motivation to do something, you shouldn’t do it. It is a proven method that works for many people, so that’s cool. As you reach your goals, you will unlock productivity badges. The more tasks you complete, and within time or before the deadline, the more points you accumulate. Todoist wants to gamify the experience with Karma. Todoist offers date, name, and priority options only. You can also sort by dates, importance, and status. There are sorting options in both, but To-Do does it better. The labels and filters in Todoist can further help in managing projects and tasks efficiently. You can invite co-workers or family members to a list and collaborate on a single project. Helpful to jot down thoughts or add important files. You can add notes and attach files to individual tasks in both of them. Todoist and Microsoft To-Do offer some additional features to help manage tasks and projects. So I can divide a single big task into a set of steps or sub-tasks. Notably, you can also create sub-tasks in Microsoft To-Do but not sub-lists. Finally, there are filters which are color-coded priority tags which can be used to signify the importance of a task. Then there are labels which work like tags. Not only that, you can also create sub-tasks to segregate your workflow. Projects mean lists in Todoist, and you can create nested Projects to divide your workflow. Apart from Today list, there is Next 7 Days list where you can view your entire week in a single glance. Todoist does things differently but offers more options and control. Hidden feature, eh? Should be more obvious but it’s still cool. Simply add # before a word to turn it into a clickable link. If someone assigns you a task, it will be visible under Assigned to Me. In Microsoft To-Do, any task you mark with star goes to Important list, and all future tasks appear under Planned list. Again, that’s a better approach because I don’t have to switch lists to create one task.īoth Todoist and Microsoft To-Do support natural language. In Todoist, you can create a task on any screen and then choose the list. In Microsoft To-Do, you will select the list and then create a task. And that’s when you notice the differences. Tasks, Lists, and FiltersĬreating tasks is super easy on both the to-do apps. They are well-designed and polished apps, but Todoist mobile apps come with a sidebar which makes things a little quicker. While Todoist has gone for a bright red theme, Microsoft To-Do has adopted a blue theme.īoth the apps support many color-based themes to choose from. That means you have to go back and forth to change lists.

In the case of mobile apps, Microsoft has no quick sidebar. A menu with lists and filters on the left and corresponding tasks on the right. Both the apps follow the tried and tested formula here.
