So we devised a plan that’ll make the multiplayer experience in Todoist much, much better. Throughout the years, we couldn’t help but wonder: Why does getting work done together tend to feel so convoluted? It may sound counterintuitive for us to say – since we ourselves build productivity tools and have been working remotely for so long – but I would guess that many of you have felt that exact same way (especially since the pandemic). for me as a 'new user' after the design change, I don't notice it, but definitely see how frustrating it is/was for existing users.Over the last three years, the Todoist team has been working on laying the technical foundations for what is going to be our biggest evolution yet.Īs a remote-first company since 2011, all of us at Doist (myself included), have experienced first-hand the complexities of planning and executing work. why did they update the design from something everyone knew and loved?. The design thing is a teeny bit like reddit as well. Seen way to many IT systems just flat out fail because of a 'too proud of their work' mentality, that shoves a totally usefull and fantastic feature TO THEM, and fails to see that the users in general either had no use for it, or get confused/annoyed/put off by the new buttons and layout. that their 'new features' don't need to (and shouldn't) be shoved in users faces.

I think this might be a prime thing that most developers forget. With this solution ^ users will NOT get cluttered with something they don't want/need, and people that want it, can set it up once, and get what they want as well. And after that 'choose if task appears in calendar'. And when that's enabled, the user can get another enable/disable 'option to chose if task is shown in calendar', and a default for tasks per project. I'd keep Todoist just as it is while implementing new features. Wouldn't you also prefer 'to have the option'? Instead of 'getting the feature'? A simple setting that enables/disables such functionality and they would have a goldmine. New features don't NEED to be 'featured' everywhere in the app. I wish the development team at todoist understood this. But it's SO easy to implement this functionality, without changing a thing about the current design.

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