Todoist: Shortcuts for in-app URLs
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Apple Shortcuts: Dictate Todoist task to iPhone and get reminded upon arriving home
Last updated: 21 Oct 2024 - Note that the ability to convert coordinates to what3words addresses with a free API account will end on 25 November 2024, which is a bit naff. You will now require a minimum of a "Basic," account, priced £7.99 per month, to do this.
Background
If, like me, you've been rather quizzical as to why it's not straightforward to just dictate to Todoist on your iPhone and be automatically reminded of that task when you get home, this Shortcut may help you out.
It was an itch I was determined to scratch. 😊
You can get the Shortcut here. You will need a paid Todoist account for it to work.
What does it do?
- Asks you what you want to be reminded about when you get home
- Creates the task, adding a location reminder for your pre-configured home address – or any other you choose. Just follow the comments within the Shortcut to set this up
- Adds a what3words address to the task's description with embedded link to the location where you created the task and the time of its creation (optional)
- Opens the task in Todoist, post-creation, so you can check all is OK
- In the Shortcut, read the comments with instructions throughout and input/delete the required information as indicated prior to running for the first time
- The first time you run the Shortcut, you will be asked for several permissions; for location, folders etc. Just click "always allow," and you shouldn't be bothered by them again
- If you don't want to include the what3words link, just leave the API Key text field blank and the Shortcut will skip over it
- For the more seasoned Shortcuts users, you can obviously incorporate dictionaries from Data Jar to choose a location. Same goes for API keys. This version has been kept deliberately "simple".
- Once you have the Shortcut configured and running, you can obviously adapt it however you so wish. Say, have it add a
@backhome label to the task. Or, not have the task automatically opening up in Todoist etc
The Shortcut works on…
- Paid Todoist accounts
- Both iOS and macOS. Note it doesn't work on Apple Watch. I assume this is due to the need to save a JSON file to your Shortcuts folder.
- I use Hazel on my Mac to periodically clean out the
todoist_request JSON files in there. You may wish to manually clean them out from time to time
- I have the Shortcut configured to activate with a triple-tap on the back of my iPhone on iOS 17 and it zips along quite nicely
Caveats & Gotchas
- This Shortcut is using both the Todoist REST and Sync APIs. I'm hearing noises that some changes are happening on the API front, so I wouldn't be surprised if this Shortcut breaks in the near future now that I've published this 🤪
You can find more of my Todoist tips and tricks listed here
Thanks for reading and I hope you find it useful. Cheers.
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