On Microsoft To do, you can only add individual tasks within a project. Sections: Todoist allows creating sections within the same project, which means you can group tasks based on specific criteria even within the same project.To Do refers to subtasks as “steps.” The difference is that Todoist allows adding subtasks within subtasks, while To Do doesn’t.

Subtasks : You can add subtasks on both apps.

However, there are many differences as well: For example, both allow creating subtasks and offer options to add a reminder, due date, and assignees. Todoist offers a more comprehensive feature set for task lists, but if you need something simpler, To Do makes more sense.īoth apps have a few standard task creation features. All task lists are deleted permanently from To Do when you delete them. Microsoft doesn’t allow archiving projects (or task lists as it calls them), though.

Projects: Tasks appear under their respective projects.

It’s a fairly straightforward user interface when you look at it:

You can also add new task lists to the left sidebar or create a group of task lists by clicking on the icon at the bottom-right of the sidebar. Tasks: This is where all your tasks appear.Assigned to me: When collaborating with teammates on a project with multiple tasks, you’ll see all tasks assigned to you in this section.Planned: Any task with a due date or reminder shows up in this section.Important: Important tasks (click on the star next to the title of a task) appear here.The uncompleted tasks appear as a suggestion in the My Day tasks section the following day. If you don’t finish a task in this list the same day, the task will be saved to your general task list at night when the list automatically resets.

My Day : This is a smart list where you can manually add tasks you want to do today.Microsoft To Do offers four types of filters for lists where you can filter your tasks by: Microsoft To Do and Todoist have similar interfaces with a left sidebar for switching between the app’s sections and a right pane with a list of tasks.

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