Despite being unable to check off tasks from the widget, there are two advantages over Todoist’s previous widget: information density and the ability to create multiple widgets. Each widget can be set to show tasks from your Today or Upcoming lists, or one of your projects, labels, or filters. In iOS 14 you can configure a list of your tasks to appear in either a small, medium, or large widget. That bad news out of the way, let me focus on how Todoist’s team has made the most of the new widget system in a couple key ways. If you really need the old functionality it’s still available to you, there’s just no way to add a legacy widget to the Home screen. The good news is that apps are allowed to offer both iOS 13 and iOS 14 widgets to users, so on iOS 14 Todoist users will find both options available.

With the app’s new widgets that’s no longer possible, because the only interactions Apple currently allows in widgets is launchers into different parts of an app. In the iOS 13 widget for Todoist, you could check off tasks as you completed them without needing to open the full app.

Some of my most used widgets over the years have been those provided by my task manager, so I was excited to see the slate of new widgets Todoist has introduced in its latest update for iPhone and iPad.īefore detailing the new widgets, though, it’s important to state up front that for all the advantages of iOS 14’s new widgets, they bring a regression that negatively impacts task managers especially: widgets can no longer be fully interactive. Even before iOS and iPadOS 14 brought a new form and function to widgets on Apple platforms, one of the tried and true widget use cases in previous years was task lists.

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