Stay on Todoist if
Your list runs itself: natural-language quick add, two or three saved filters, and you know what to do the moment the app opens. Karma keeps you at it. Nothing here needs fixing.
Comparison
Equilibrition vs Todoist
Todoist catches a task in one typed line, and that is a real skill. Equilibrition keeps that speed of entry, then attaches the action to its project, its life domain and a slot in the week you actually have.
Straight answer
Todoist or Equilibrition?
Todoist stays the right tool if your work breaks into actions that make sense on their own and your saved filters already give you the views you need. Equilibrition takes over when the task is no longer enough — when you also need the note, the decision and the hour.
Look at Equilibrition if
You open “Redo the landing page” three weeks after typing it and no longer know which call it came from, what was decided, or how long it will take.
What breaks
Where Todoist stops when you work alone
None of this is a flaw in Todoist. These are three places where an independent — someone with no border between work and personal life — ends up doing the joining by hand.
A task title is not a context
“Chase the quote” is obvious the day you write it. The meeting notes, the version you sent and the decision behind it sit in three other places.
Filters answer what, never when
A filter can hand you 23 tasks for today. Your day has hours, not slots, so the trade-off gets made again in your head every morning.
Karma counts checkboxes, not your week
A streak rewards the volume of tasks closed. It says nothing about how much of the week went to the client, the family or the accounts.
Table
Criterion by criterion
The four criteria that come up most often when someone compares Todoist and Equilibrition.
Speed of capture
Todoist — Natural-language quick add, hard to beat.
Equilibrition — One Inbox, with no need to decide straight away what the thing is.
Why a task exists
Todoist — A title, some comments, sometimes a link out.
Equilibrition — The task stays attached to its project, its notes and its decisions.
Work and personal life
Todoist — Separate projects and labels, with no read on where the time went.
Equilibrition — Life domains: a filter, and an honest report on your week.
Facing the clock
Todoist — A due date, not a duration; today's list can be unliveable.
Equilibrition — You drop actions into slots and see what does not fit.
| Criterion | Todoist | Equilibrition |
|---|---|---|
| Speed of capture | Natural-language quick add, hard to beat. | One Inbox, with no need to decide straight away what the thing is. |
| Why a task exists | A title, some comments, sometimes a link out. | The task stays attached to its project, its notes and its decisions. |
| Work and personal life | Separate projects and labels, with no read on where the time went. | Life domains: a filter, and an honest report on your week. |
| Facing the clock | A due date, not a duration; today's list can be unliveable. | You drop actions into slots and see what does not fit. |
Questions
What people ask before leaving Todoist
My filters already work, so what do I gain by moving?
Nothing, if your filters give you the right what and your week holds without strain. What a filter cannot give you is the when: it hands over 23 tasks for today without knowing you have four hours left. Here those actions go into slots, and you see which ones fall off before Thursday evening.
Can I keep my projects and labels?
Yes, in their logic even when the name changes. Projects stay projects; most labels become either a life domain or a property on the task. That sorting is what we do with you during the migration included in the Founder Pass. Pure context labels like @computer often drop away on their own once the task lives in a time slot.
What happens to my recurring tasks?
They exist here, and Todoist is still more forgiving with unusual natural-language phrasing. The common rhythms — every Monday, monthly, every third Friday — rebuild without trouble and the migration carries them over. If your invoicing depends on six contorted recurrences, say so before you buy and we will check them together.
Isn't this just a heavier Todoist?
On capture, Todoist wins: its quick add is best-in-class and we are not claiming to match it. The difference comes after capture, when the task keeps its project, its notes, the decision that created it, its life domain and an hour. And to be plain: the product is not finished, so if your list runs without effort, stay on it. The Founder Pass is €97 once, with a 30-day no-debate guarantee.
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Free guide
Pick up any project without rebuilding its story.
The Context → Action guide: five steps to capture, keep the why, and fit what matters into your week. With the tools you already use.
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- It ends with a test to run this week
From step 03
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review the hero and choose the final version
A task carrying its verb and its context can be picked up two days later without rereading your notes.