Seven palettes
Re-tint a dark Todoist theme: surfaces, text, dividers and accent. Each palette also sets its own row spacing, section style and corner rounding.
Free for everyone.
Chrome extension for Todoist
Get through today, not just list it.
Pick today's few tasks and run a focus session on them. Put a number on each one and watch the day add up. Keep notes right above the list. Three focus sessions a week, every sub‑task, seven palettes and the text size stay free.
- Free to install
- Pay once, no subscription
- Works with any Todoist plan
The working day
Your day, worked in Todoist
Todoist holds the list. Todowing helps you work it: pick a few tasks and time them, see how long the day really is, jot down what isn't a task, and keep your meetings in view, all on the Today page you already use.
Focus on a few things
Pick what you're working on next from Today and start a timer. A card counts down beside your list, holding those tasks and their sub-tasks, and one session runs across every tab you have open.
Three a week free. Unlimited with the unlock.
Say how long it'll take
Put a number on a task from its own row: five minutes, an hour, or whatever you type. Today's header then carries the total for the whole list, and the focus bar totals just the tasks you picked. If the task already has a duration in Todoist, the number you set changes that duration.
Part of the unlock.
A pad for what isn't a task
Three lines above your Today list for the things that never become tasks. It reads a little Markdown, saves as you type, and never leaves your browser.
Part of the unlock.
Your Apple Calendar in Today
Publish a calendar from Apple Calendar and paste its link. The day's events show above your tasks, each wearing its calendar's name and colour, for up to five calendars. Todowing only reads them, so nothing you do in Todoist changes your calendar. Set it up in a minute.
Part of the unlock.
Sub-tasks
Do more than look at them
Every sub-task shows in Today, Upcoming, Boards, Filters and Labels, four levels deep, with its own date, priority and labels. That part is free for everyone. These go further.
Add, rename, reorder
Type a new sub-task under any task, rename one in place, or drag rows into the order you want, without opening the task.
Part of the unlock.
One task, two places
File a task under a parent in another project without moving it. Todoist keeps the record in the task itself, so you see it on your phone too.
Part of the unlock.
Totals on the parent
A task with no estimate of its own shows the total of its open sub-tasks, so the work left sits on the parent instead of hiding under it.
Part of the unlock.
Free for everyone: every sub-task at every depth, checked off in place, collapsed when you are not working on it. Prefer Todoist's own? Switch off "Show Todowing's sub-tasks" in the popup, and the rest keeps working.
Your list, your look
Then make it yours
Colour, type and size across the whole app, Todowing's own rows included. Two of the three are free.
Text size, your call
Scale Todoist's text from 85% to 200% in steps of 5. Headings, tasks, descriptions and sub-task rows all move together.
Free for everyone.
Pick your font
Browse fifty Google Fonts, each rendered in its own face, and pick one. The whole Todoist app restyles, sub-task rows included.
Part of the unlock.
More on the way. Todowing is a growing set of upgrades. The next one lands in this same extension, and if it's paid, your unlock already covers it.
FROM TODOIST USERS
In their words.
I stopped using Todoist's Today view because my sub-tasks were invisible. Todowing puts them back where they belong inline, nested, and actionable. The focus timer is the thing I didn't know I needed.
Amauris Willmore
Product Designer
Love the indie development work on Todoist! Showing subtasks in the Today view is great.
Paul Biggs
Pay once. Use it forever.
No subscription, no renewal emails. Start free, unlock when the day needs more.
Free
$0
Everything Todowing shows you.
- Every sub-task at every depth, with its full detail
- Check off, reopen and collapse in place
- Three focus sessions a week
- Seven palettes and the text-size slider
- No account required
Lifetime unlock
9.99 once
Everything you can do with it, for good.
Black Friday: 40% off with code BF2026 through Nov 30.
- Unlimited focus sessions, with your own time estimates
- Your Apple Calendar on Today
- A notes pad above your list
- Add, rename and reorder sub-tasks from the row
- One task in two places, across projects
- Your font, and hide-done
- Every future upgrade included
You buy the unlock here on todowing.com; we, not Google, are the seller. Stripe handles checkout, and refunds are no-questions-asked for 14 days. Terms of sale.
From the maker
I use Todoist every day, and the Today view kept showing me a fraction of what I'd planned. My checklists were there, hidden. So I wrote a userscript that put them back, for myself at first. Todowing is that tool, rebuilt as a proper extension. It still runs on my own Today view every day.
Questions, answered
Is this a subscription?
No. You pay 9.99 once and get a license key that unlocks the extension forever. There is nothing to renew or cancel.
Todoist shows sub-tasks now. Why Todowing?
It does, and Todowing's sub-tasks are free too, at every depth. What Todoist's previews don't do is let you add, rename or reorder from the row, or file one task under a parent in another project. Then there is everything around the list: focus sessions, estimates that add up, a notes pad and your Apple Calendar on Today. Prefer Todoist's own sub-tasks? Switch off "Show Todowing's sub-tasks" in the popup and the rest keeps working.
What does the free tier include?
Every sub-task at every depth with its full detail, checked off, reopened and collapsed in place, plus three focus sessions a week, the seven palettes and the text-size slider. There is no limit on how many sub-tasks you see. The unlock opens unlimited focus sessions, setting time estimates, the notes pad, your Apple Calendar on Today, editing sub-tasks from the row, one task in two places, the font picker and the hide-done toggle.
Do future upgrades cost extra?
No. New upgrades land in this same extension, and the unlock you already bought covers every paid one.
Which views does it work in?
Today, Upcoming, and any Filter or Label view. Plus every board, anywhere in Todoist, including your projects' boards. A project's list view already nests on its own, so Todowing leaves it alone.
Can I see my Apple Calendar in Todoist?
Yes, though not by signing in: Todoist connects to Google Calendar and Outlook, but not to Apple. You publish a calendar from Apple Calendar and paste the link into Todowing, and the day's events appear on Today beside your tasks. Todowing only ever reads it, so nothing you do in Todoist changes your calendar. Part of the unlock, and it takes about a minute: here are the four steps.
What if your license server goes down?
You stay unlocked. Validation fails open: only an explicit "revoked" answer from the server locks a key. An outage or an offline day changes nothing.
Do I need Todoist Pro?
No. Todowing works on every Todoist plan, including the free one Todoist calls Beginner, in the Todoist web app on Chrome. Todoist keeps task durations for its paid plans; Todowing lets you put a time on any task.
Does it work in the Todoist desktop app?
Not the app you download from Todoist. Chrome extensions can't run inside it. Install Todoist as its own Chrome window instead: open Todoist, then pick the three-dot menu → Cast, save, and share → Install page as app (Chrome's own steps). Todowing works in that window the way it works in a tab. Its settings live in the toolbar popup, and an app window has no toolbar, so save your token and pick your fonts in a normal Todoist tab first. Both carry over.
Private by design.
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The extension stores your Todoist API token in your browser and sends it only to the official Todoist API.
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Your tasks never touch our servers. The extension talks straight to Todoist.
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No analytics or tracking inside the extension. Read the privacy policy.
