Todowing

Todowing is a Chrome extension that fixes a longstanding frustration for Todoist power users. When you open the Today, Upcoming, Filter, or Label views in Todoist, the app flattens your task hierarchy and hides your sub-tasks. You know they exist because you created them, but they're buried under an expand click for each parent. Todowing brings those sub-tasks back into view, indented beneath their parents, right in your main working views.

The problem this solves is visibility. Todoist's backend supports nested task structures up to four levels deep, but the main interface often doesn't show that depth where you actually work. If you rely on checklists and sub-tasks to break down your work, you end up clicking into each task to see what's left. Todowing keeps the hierarchy visible without leaving your current view, which saves a lot of navigation.

How it works is straightforward. The extension watches the views Todoist builds and inserts the sub-tasks inline, indented to show their level. You can complete or reopen sub-tasks directly without opening the parent. If you collapse a parent, it stays collapsed even when Todoist redraws the view. For recurring tasks, it reopens completed sub-tasks when the parent cycles back, so your checklists reset automatically.

The target audience is anyone who uses Todoist daily and relies on sub-task checklists. If you plan your days by breaking tasks into steps, and you find yourself constantly drilling into tasks to see those steps, Todowing removes that friction. It's a small change to the interface, but it compounds across every task you check.

What sets it apart is that it's not trying to replace Todoist or add new productivity concepts. It takes a specific gap in the Todoist interface and fills it. The extension doesn't modify your data or sync with external services. It just changes how existing data displays.

The free tier gives you basic nesting with a text-size slider and supports up to five sub-tasks per parent. A $9.99 lifetime unlock removes the sub-task limit and adds a font picker with 50 Google Fonts. There's no subscription, just a one-time payment for the full version. The extension is developed by Vivian Guillen at Red Pixel and available through the Chrome Web Store.