Can today replace Todoist?

For most people, no. Today has no capture inbox, no project management, and no recurring task system. If you need those capabilities, you need a task manager alongside today. Today is an execution and daily planning tool, not a task manager.

Can I import my Todoist tasks into today?

Today doesn't have a Todoist integration currently. The workflow is manual: identify your daily priorities in Todoist, then set your outcome and blocks in today. A Todoist integration is on the roadmap.

Is today cheaper than Todoist?

Today has a free tier. Todoist's Pro plan costs $4/month (billed annually) as of 2026. For users who need both tools, the combined cost is the relevant comparison — today + Todoist Pro covers both daily execution and full task management.

Which tool should I use if I can only use one?

Depends on your primary problem. If you're losing track of tasks and commitments across projects, use Todoist. If your task management is fine but your days lack focus and direction, use today. If you're not sure, today's structure often reveals where the real problem is after a week of use.

today vs Todoist: two different tools for two different problems

today

Calm daily planner

Time blocks, focus, commitments, reflection

Todoist

a full-featured task manager with projects, labels, filters, and natural language task entry

What today and Todoist are each built for

Todoist is a task manager: it captures everything you need to do — tasks, sub-tasks, projects, deadlines, priorities, labels — and lets you organize and filter them. It answers the question 'what do I need to do?' today is a daily planner: it helps you decide what to work on today, protect time for it, execute focused work sessions, and close the day with intention. It answers the question 'what am I actually going to do in the next 8 hours?' These tools solve adjacent but different problems. Many people who use today also use Todoist — the combination covers both task management and daily execution, with today turning the Todoist backlog into daily reality.

What Todoist does better than today

Todoist is vastly better at task capture and organization: inbox processing, project hierarchies, recurring task scheduling, natural language date entry ('every Tuesday at 3pm'), team collaboration, and email-to-task integrations. If you need a trusted system for capturing commitments across multiple projects and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks, Todoist is the appropriate tool. It has robust mobile apps, integrations with hundreds of other tools, and a decade of refinement as a capture-and-organize system. Today doesn't compete with any of this — it has no project management features, no recurring task scheduling, and no capture inbox.

What today does better than Todoist

Today does things Todoist doesn't attempt: time blocking around a live calendar, focus session logging with outcome linkage, energy and headspace check-ins, friction tracking, and the daily planning flow that converts a task backlog into a daily commitment. Todoist can be used for time blocking (using scheduled tasks as blocks), but it's awkward and doesn't connect to session tracking. Today's opinionated daily structure — one outcome, a few blocks, honest session logs, evening reflection — creates a planning habit that Todoist's open-ended task management approach never quite enforces.

Using today and Todoist together

The most effective workflow: use Todoist as your capture system and trusted task backlog. Every morning in your planning session, open Todoist to identify the most important task for the day, set it as your outcome in today, and create blocks for the 2–3 tasks you're committing to completing today. Today becomes the daily execution layer that translates Todoist's backlog into reality. This stack covers both the 'nothing falls through the cracks' requirement (Todoist) and the 'today actually goes as planned' requirement (today). Neither tool alone covers both needs.

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