My Alfred Workflow for Todoist
Thursday, January 9, 2025
I use Todoist as my task list application for a while now. Before that, I have used Things by Cultured Code. I had to leave Things behind because it is still lacking the ability to share to-do list with other users. But one feature I have missed from Things all the time — the Things helper. This is a small add-on that registers a global shortcut, that creates tasks for E-Mails or links in Safari or Chrome.
I got the inspiration from a friend to reimplement it using Alfred, my primary shortcut and productivity driver on my Mac. And it was way easier than I thought.
Features
- Register CMD+Shift+Space as a global short to create new tasks. If neither Mail nor Safari is the front most application, the standard quick add dialog from Todoist is opened.
- Register some keywords to open certain views from Alfred.
- “today” and “heute” to open the today view.
- “inbox” and “eingang” to open the inbox view.
- “upcoming” and “geplant” to open the upcoming view.