Experimental Features

Scroll your calendars more freely – March 25

The new calendar layouts in Todoist were received with a blast back in June. It’s been great seeing all the creative ways that you've put them to use.

Since then, many of you have asked for more calendar flexibility. Specifically, scrolling more freely in the week and month layouts and seeing rolling days have been at the top of many wishlists.

Craig and the frontend team rolled up their sleeves and built a new calendar engine to power the Week, Month, and Today layouts. And we’re excited to get it into your testing hands!

Here’s Craig to show you all about it:

What's new?

• 🌀 Continuous scrolling: You can now scroll freely through time. Great for dragging-and-dropping tasks between weeks and months, or to see the next rolling days towards the end of the week.
• 🔁 Past events stay visible: If you’ve connected your calendar, you’ll see past events alongside your completed tasks. Much better context for daily reviews.
• 🧲 Flexible drag-and-drop: Move tasks from the calendar to a project in the sidebar, or between time slots, more easily than previously.

To try the improved calendar experience, just head to any view with the calendar layout enabled.

Ready to be tested

We've rolled out the improved web calendar experience to everyone on v7738 and above.

Hit a snag or have ideas to make it even better? Please share it all with us via this feedback form. It’s so important for us to make this experience top-notch quality.

Enjoy, and happy testing! 🧪

Shorter Task description previews in List view - March 20

Today we're testing a simple but impactful change to how task description previews appear in List view on our Web and Desktop apps.

Ever opened a project and felt slightly overwhelmed by all the description text stretching across your screen? Well, now instead of showing the entire description condensed into one (sometimes very long) line, Todoist will display just the first line of your description.

Here's how these descriptions have been shown before:

And how they display after this update:

Why this change?

The problem with how this worked previously is especially noticeable when descriptions contained bullet lists, a list of links, or lengthy information. Condensing the description's content into a single line made it harder to scan your tasks quickly and understand the context.

By showing only the first line, we're aiming to make your task lists cleaner and easier to scan, and give you more control over what information will be shown when you (or a team mate) are looking at that task in a List view.

Let us know what you think

As with all Experimentalist features, we'd love to hear from you. Specifically:

• Does this change make your lists feel more organized and easier to read?
• Are there scenarios where you miss seeing more of the description preview?
• Have you developed any interesting ways of adapting to this change (like putting the most important info in the first line)?

Try it out and let us know what you think! This change is live for all Experimentalists on web and desktop. If you experience any bugs please report them in our Experimentalist support channel.

Happy testing! 🧪

Email to Todoist powered by AI - March 13

Our new AI Assist feature extracts deadlines, links, and key action items from emails sent to Todoist, turning them into actionable tasks without any manual work on your part.

To get started, forward a message to your preferred Todoist email address (for example a specific project or your Inbox), add any optional notes like "look at this today," and the system does the rest.

Head over to Amir's video on LinkedIn for a quick intro, and some insight into our thinking about how to implement AI into Todoist.

Privacy & Security

What makes this special isn't just the time you'll save—it's also how we've built it. AI Assist runs entirely on Todoist's private infrastructure, meaning your data never leaves our secure environment or gets exposed to third parties.

Try it out!

The new functionality is available now for Pro and Business users with Experimentalist mode enabled.  Try it with meeting invites, GitHub notifications, or those lengthy update emails that might bury important info in paragraphs of text. We'd love to hear how it fits into your workflow.

Happy testing! 🧪

Connect Outlook Calendar – March 12

Calling all Outlook enthusiasts! You asked for it, so we’re delivering the Outlook Calendar integration to you, ready for testing today. 🧪

We’re starting off with the ability to see your Outlook events in Todoist. The option to sync your scheduled tasks to Outlook is coming soon.

Here’s Hugo to show you all about it:

Start testing

To try it out, head over to Calendar settings and hit Connect Outlook Calendar.

Once connected, you’ll see all calendars associated with your Outlook account in Calendar settings – to show or hide calendars, toggle the visibility per-calendar. Your Outlook events will now appear in the Today and Upcoming views.

Worth noting

If you have a Microsoft 365 Business or Education account, you may run into restrictions from your organization. Here’s an article to help with some common issues, such as needing admin approval, or not seeing your calendar after connecting (likely due to an admin restriction).

We currently only allow one calendar account connection at a time. This means that, for now, you can connect either one Outlook or Google account.

Ready to be tested

We’re carefully rolling it out to Experimentalists. It’s currently live for 30% of Experimentalists from v7666 on web/desktop, v11672 on Android, and 25.3.10 on iOS. We aim to roll out to 100% of Experimentalists by the end of the week, unless a major issue pops us.

If you experience any bugs please report them in our Experimentalist support channel. General feedback or feature improvements can be submitted using this feedback form in Calendar settings.

Enjoy! 🧪

(Now back to finishing the option to sync scheduled tasks to Outlook Calendar ...)