Todoist vs Workflowy

What Todoist is

Todoist is the world's most popular task manager, designed to help you declutter your mind and organize your life. Its 'Natural Language Processing' allows you to type 'Buy milk tomorrow at 5pm' to instantly create a task with a reminder. While minimalist in design, it contains deep features like project sections, priority levels, and team collaboration. Flawless sync across everything from Apple Watch to your browser ensures you maintain focus and never forget a single task throughout the day.

What Workflowy is

WorkFlowy is a single infinite outline: everything is a bullet you can zoom into, tag and search.

What Todoist is built to do

Quick Add

Use natural language to add tasks, dates, and labels in a matter of seconds.

Project Sections

Organize complex work into manageable sub-lists and distinct sections.

Karma Productivity

Track your progress with charts and set daily or weekly productivity goals.

Team Collaboration

Assign tasks to others and keep communication flowing through task comments.

Choose Todoist if

• Busy Professionals, Students, and Minimalism Lovers.

Choose Workflowy if

• People who think in nested lists.

Todoist: pros & cons

• Speed: Entering a task takes just seconds; the keyboard shortcuts are industry-best.
• Universal Access: Available on more platforms (and works better) than almost any competitor.
• Simplicity: Does not push features on you unless you explicitly go looking for them.
• Karma System: Gamify your productivity by earning points for finishing your tasks.
• Reminders: A basic feature like task reminders requires a paid subscription.
• Calendar View: Its internal calendar view is newer and less mature than some rivals.
• Notes: Not designed for long-form writing or storing massive amounts of notes.

Workflowy: pros & cons

• One structure to learn, nothing to configure
• Zooming into any bullet keeps focus
• Very fast
• Outline structure does not suit every kind of note
• Limited formatting
• Collaboration is basic