Bye Todoist… it’s not me, it’s you…

So I’ve been an avid user of Todoist for nearly a decade. I started using Todoist in 2014 when Wunderlist was still in the picture. At the time, everyone was saying to use Wunderlist, but I saw something in Todoist that I wasn’t seeing in Wunderlist. So I decided to go with my gut.

At first, and for many years, this proved to be a good solution. Sure, it lacked some features, but it was zippy and just worked. When you’re thinking about productivity and tracking the work you need to do, something that “just works” is precious. I don’t need fancy, I need functioning.

One of the missing features was calendar integration (at the time, even one-way sync was missing). Yes, it was a bit annoying, but it also made me use Todoist more. However, over time I found that I needed to use the calendar more as I had meetings and tasks that were conflicting. One-way calendar integration was introduced, which somewhat solved the trick, but the problem is that you really need two-way calendar integration. Two-way integration through Zapier was a joke (which should have been the first warning sign of things to come). Two-way allows you to create events in your calendar and have them be reflected in Todoist, and vice versa. Two-way calendar integration was a bit buggy, but it worked.

I was living in a different timezone when two-way was introduced. When I moved to my current timezone, I encountered a nasty little bug where I was first introduced to Todoist’s “customer support”. You see, some of the events were created…