Todowing

Todowing is a Chrome extension that restores nested sub-task visibility in Todoist. If you've ever been frustrated that your carefully organized task hierarchies get flattened in Today, Upcoming, Board, Filter, or Label views, this extension fixes that specific problem. It shows sub-tasks inline and indented, exactly how they appear in project view. You can complete sub-tasks directly without opening their parent task. Collapse states persist across refreshes so you don't lose your preferred view every time the page reloads. For heavy Todoist users who rely on checklists and nested structures, it addresses a long-standing gap in the native interface that Todoist itself hasn't prioritized fixing. The frustration of having your task hierarchy disappear in filtered views is real, and Todowing provides a clean solution.

The extension works by integrating with Todoist's web interface through Chrome's extension APIs. You install it from the Chrome Web Store, authorize it with your Todoist account by providing your API token, and it starts modifying how tasks render in your browser. Your API token stays local, stored only in Chrome's extension storage and never transmitted anywhere except directly to Todoist's official servers. The extension communicates exclusively with Todoist's APIs to fetch and update your tasks. Your task data never touches Todowing's infrastructure. There's no sync service to maintain, no third-party database holding copies of your tasks, and one less potential failure point or privacy concern in your productivity stack. The developer made a deliberate choice to keep the data flow simple and auditable.

Nesting goes up to four levels deep, which covers most practical task structures short of extremely complex project breakdowns. When you expand a parent task, all its sub-tasks appear indented beneath it, matching the visual hierarchy you'd expect from project view. You can collapse sections to focus on top-level items, hiding the sub-task details until you're ready to work on them. The extension remembers your collapse preferences persistently. Even after refreshing the page, navigating away and back, or restarting your browser, your expanded and collapsed states return exactly as you left them. This persistence removes the annoyance of re-expanding tasks every time Todoist reloads, which happens more often than you'd like in a web application.

A few additional features extend the core functionality beyond simple nesting display. The extension can recover completed sub-tasks that Todoist archives after completion, letting you see what you've checked off within a rolling thirty-day window. This is useful for reviewing what got done or for tasks where the completion history matters. For recurring tasks, Todowing resets sub-tasks when the parent task resets to its next occurrence. If you have a weekly checklist with five sub-items, those sub-items come back unchecked when the parent recurs, so your repeating checklists don't require manual cleanup each time. Todoist's native behavior around recurring sub-tasks can be frustrating, and this feature smooths that edge.

On the visual customization side, you can adjust text size anywhere from eighty-five to two hundred percent, useful for accessibility or for fitting more content on screen. You can also choose from fifty Google Fonts to style your task list differently from Todoist's default typography. These options won't matter to everyone, but for users who spend hours in Todoist daily and want their workspace to feel more personal or more readable, the ability to tweak appearance adds comfort. Small quality-of-life features like these signal that the extension was built by someone who actually uses Todoist heavily rather than someone building features on a spec.

Todowing offers a free tier that limits you to five sub-task rows per parent task. You still get the text-size slider and basic nesting functionality, which is enough to test whether the extension fits your workflow before paying anything. The paid version is a one-time lifetime purchase at nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. That removes the row limit entirely, unlocks the font picker, adds a toggle to hide completed sub-tasks from view, and includes all future paid features at no additional cost. There's no subscription, no recurring monthly or annual fee, and no tier complexity. You pay once and the extension is yours permanently. That pricing model is increasingly rare in a software landscape dominated by subscriptions, and it's worth noting for users tired of accumulating small monthly charges.

The license validation system operates on a fail-open model. If the validation server ever goes down or the developer stops maintaining it, the extension continues working in its unlocked state rather than locking you out. That's a deliberate choice to prioritize user trust over anti-piracy enforcement. For anyone wary of browser extensions that might stop working if the developer disappears or abandons the project, this approach offers some reassurance that your purchase remains functional regardless of what happens on the backend. Todowing targets a specific audience with specific needs. Daily Todoist users who organize tasks hierarchically and want that structure visible everywhere, not just in project view. If that describes you, the extension solves a real problem for less than ten dollars. If you don't use sub-tasks heavily or stick mostly to project view, you likely won't notice the difference.