As part of my ongoing journey to consolidate tools and services as much as possible, I’ve been forced to abandon one app I cherished: Things. Something about it just clicked with my mind.
I tried TickTick for a while, but found the app frustrating to tap around in. I feel the same way about Todoist. I frequently jot a note with a task and putting the note in a Todoist Task takes a clumsy number of clicks and taps. So I’m looking at other options.
But for Googlers who want to know to sync Apple Reminders with Todoist, I stumbled into a Reddit thread I have long since forgotten with a Shortcut. And I modified the shortcut to run repeatedly multiple tasks. The use case being what I do constantly: How do you sync in all the “Hey Siri, make a reminder to…” that you prattle off every day to your phone and watch into the service you actually use?
This is what makes Todoist and TickTick so frustrating: they ignore the built-in system Reminders for the clunkier phraseology of “Hey Siri, in Todoist remind me to…” that fails more frequently than not because “Todoist” looks and sounds like “Tuh Doyst” to a computer.
Anyway, this is the Apple Shortcut for syncing multiple Apple Reminders into Todoist. I have a list called “Inbox” I use, a la Things. You may need to change that for your use cases.
Also worth noting there are limitations:
- Attachments and images won’t come over
- Deadlines and reminder times won’t come over
- Recurring tasks are hit-or-miss
- This will “move” your task from Apple Reminders to Todoist, resulting in the loss of date and attachment data from Apple Reminders entirely
