• Written by Rob Kleiman

Docs to Todoist, Updated for Today's APIs

I like turning notes into tasks without leaving the document. docs-to-todoist, a Google Docs add-on by Mauricio Maluff Masi, did exactly that, until Todoist retired the API it was built on.

So I updated it for Todoist’s v1 API and the current Google Apps Script runtime:

  • Simpler sign-in: a personal API token instead of an OAuth app to register.
  • New options: due dates in plain language (“tomorrow 5pm”), priorities P1–P4 and a link back to the source document.
  • Lists become tasks: one task per selected line, with indented lines turned into subtasks.
  • Lighter: the jQuery dependency is gone; the sidebar is plain JavaScript.

Code on GitHub