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uplandin

Browser Extension not Useful

Rant

I've been a Todoist user for years now, and was an early adopter. The browser extension has gone through a few iterations. Unfortunately, the latest makes it rather useless for what I need to do, making things more an unnecessarily complicated and inconvenient, and has eliminated the key features I need to have.

I need the extension to:

  1. Quickly add a task

  2. Quickly add a task based on a webpage (since it is a web browser extension after all)

  3. Quickly add a task to a project

The extension now does none of those things (at least, not easily)

  1. The up front one-click ability to Add Task is gone (buried in a second menu)

  2. The button to add the webpage to the task is gone (necessitating copying the webpage address before hitting the extension and pasting it into the task; this adds in convenient number of steps)

  3. There is no ability to select a project from your project list when adding a task (you have to save the task first, and then bring it up, and then edit it to add the project name)

I fail to understand why Todoist would eliminate these basic features (and then bother to add so many more features which I simply don't need in an extension; to do more complex task management which could benefit from having more screen real estate to view things, I'll just open the todoist webpage)

This truly makes the extension more trouble than it is worth for what would logically be the basic functions of an extension. It is so frustrating. I makes me want to consider another task tool.

Who are exactly determining that these changes are needed? Who is calling for them? Have you asked actual users?

Oh, wait: there is no link anywhere to give real feedback directly to Todoist. You have to use a third party platform and hope that customer service or someone will actually respond. This is not how you serve your customers.

Posted Jul 10, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

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