Todoist and Microsoft To Do comparison

Both Todist and Microsoft To Do are great task management products. This comparison is aimed at helping you decide, as a student, which tool will best support your time and task management for university. It is based on our observations as users of both products.

Todoist

Pros

• can add sections to break up tasks into relevant groups like general study and tasks to hand in
• can schedule tasks and individual checklist items in Free account
• can view 'Upcoming' which shows tasks due in calendar listing
• can tag tasks with a priority and filter the view to see only the priority level you wish
• will send you reminder emails when tasks are due today, soon, or overdue
• can integrate with your smart watch (both iOS and Android)

Cons

• setting reminders is a premium feature (about $6/month)
• adding comments and uploading attachments is a premium feature
• adding labels is a premium feature

Microsoft To Do

Pros

• can create groups to break tasks down task lists into semesters or units
• will pull through tasks from MS Planner and add to 'Planned' view
• can pull through flagged emails so you don't lose track of them as easily
• will send you reminder emails when tasks are due soon or overdue

Cons

• can't assign due dates to sub tasks
• can't create more than 1 level of subtask so difficult to break things down in an organised manner
• doesn't do formatting/markdown of text e.g. **bold**