Find an e-mail that you want to turn into a task, hit the button, and you'll see a Todoist 'Quick Add' window pop up with a prefilled link to the message.

You'll see a blue Todoist button in your Toolbar. Once you've got everything installed, just open up Outlook. The good thing about this is that I don't have to worry about recreating any user interfaces and all the keyboard shorthand for tags, # for projects, natural language for dates) works without issue. I didn't recreate the sidebar that the old plugin had, my solution uses the Todoist Desktop app for all the data entry. You need to have Todoist's windows desktop app installed and running. Unzip it and run setup.įor #3 above you need to install for Everyone (if you leave the defaults intact it should work). Install the TodoistDesktopLinker Outlook plugin. Install the OutlookMessageSearch console app. Once installed, make sure that it's running. Install the Todoist Desktop app for Windows 10/11 from Todoist themselves. Here's what you need to do to get this up and running.

It works with the Office 365 version that I've got, and should work on any version from Outlook 2010 onward, so long as it is 64-bit. To use it, you'll need a relatively recent 64-bit version of Outlook desktop.

so I guess I have some temporary bragging rights. Also, with this solution, you can find messages that you move after you create a task out of them. that and I couldn't actually get the official web plugin to work right. The thought of changing how I went about triaging my messages was more horrific than going through Microsoft documentation on how to process Outlook data files in C#. This is in no way a product of Todoist itself. As I live in my inbox, this completely broke my workflow (see relevant XKCD) so I made my own version of it. Last week Todoist retired their very useful Outlook desktop plugin.

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