With the Outlook add-in for Todoist, you can easily turn an email into a new Todoist task. Here is how:
Setting up the add-in
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- Open any email in Outlook.
- Click the three dots icon in the top-right corner.
- Select Get Add-ins.
- Search for Todoist.
- Click Add to install the add-in.
- Click Continue.
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How to add a task to Todoist
Quick tip
- In Outlook, open the email you wish to turn into a task.
- In the top right corner of the email view, click the three dots icon.
- Scroll down to the Todoist icon.
- Click Add to Todoist.
- If asked to log in to your Todoist account, click Log in and then Agree.
- A Todoist panel will open, where you can enter a name for your task, assign a due date, a project, labels and priority level.
- Once you’re done editing your task, click Add task.
- The task will be added to your chosen project.
How to quick add a task to your Todoist Inbox
- Open the email you wish to turn into a task.
- In the top right corner of the email view, click the three dots icon.
- Scroll down to the Todoist icon.
- Click Add to Todoist Inbox.
- A task will automatically be added to your Todoist Inbox.
FAQ
Please follow these instructions to uninstall your legacy plugin. Delete OutlookTodoistADX from the list of your apps.
The Outlook add-in supports Outlook 2019 or later on Windows, as well as Outlook 2016 or later on macOS. If you’re using an older version of Outlook, you can instead use the add-in by opening Outlook in a browser.
No, it’s currently only possible to add a due time while in Todoist.
If you no longer want to use the Outlook add-in, here's how to remove it:
- Log in to your Outlook account in a browser.
- Open an email.
- At the top of the email view, click the three dots icon.
- Click Get Add-ins.
- Click My add-ins in the left-hand menu.
- Under the Todoist icon, click the three dots icon.
- Click Remove.
The method for removing permissions depends on the type of your Microsoft account. If you were using the add-in with a personal account, you can manage permissions in your Microsoft account settings: https://account.live.com/Consent/Manage. If you were using a work or school account, you can manage your permissions in the My Apps portal: https://myapplications.microsoft.com/.
If you remove permissions for the Outlook add-in, you will not be able to use it until you allow the add-in to access your information.This is most likely happening because the email you're trying to access has been moved, archived or deleted.
In order for you to get access to an email that has been moved, archived or deleted, the Outlook add-in may ask you to log in to your Microsoft account, to get your permission to use the Microsoft Graph API.
Access to the API is needed in order to fetch a robust link to the email, which is then attached to your Todoist task. Once this is done, the email link will work even if the email has been moved, archived or deleted. We only use your permission to access the Graph API to fetch a web link for the email, and for nothing else.
Usually, the add-in will be able to do this automatically by using Single Sign-On, which runs in the background. However, this option is not available on all Outlook platforms and account types. Therefore, in some cases, you may be asked to log in to your Microsoft account.
If you select to log out in the add-in settings, we log you out of Todoist and also out of your Microsoft account.If your email account is hosted on Microsoft Exchange, Todoist may not be able to retrieve links to view your emails. You can still create tasks from your emails, but you will have to open the emails directly in Outlook.
Unfortunately, this is a limitation imposed by Outlook, and we therefore won't be able to offer this feature. You should still be able to open your tasks in the Outlook web app.
If you’ve moved the linked email out of the folder which it was in when creating the task, then the link has become invalid, and you won’t be able to use it anymore. If this is the case, you can create a new task from the email’s new location (and you may also want to delete the old task with the broken link).
This can happen if you are either on a corporate account where the installation of web add-ins has been disabled, or you are using an account type that is not supported by web add-ins like an IMAP or POP3 account.
The new add-in framework supports email accounts that are hosted on Microsoft's cloud email services. These include their consumer email services (outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, etc), Office 365 email accounts, and some Microsoft Exchange accounts if they are cloud-enabled.
Unfortunately, not. The model of embedding the whole of Todoist inside Outlook cannot be achieved anymore. We're really sorry for any confusion caused, this is the integration model that Microsoft is moving forward with and the only one that will be supported by them.
No, unfortunately, we don't support this plugin anymore.
Please log in with your email and password (if you don't have a password, here's how you can create it), or open the Outlook web app and login into the web app with your Google account.
Please contact your network admin and ask them to access the Integrated Apps option in the O365 admin portal. They should then select Add Apps and then search for Todoist for Outlook.
From there, they can choose to deploy the integration either for all users or for specific users. They will then need to consent to the required permissions. The specific permissions the plugin requires are:
- Read your mail
- Sign you in and read your profile
- Maintain access to data you have given it access to