This process is called a “zap”, and with a free account, you can have five free different zaps. It waits for a trigger in one app – for example, a new task in Todoist, and then performs an action in another app – for example, creating a new task in Habitica. Zapier is a service that connects different apps together. My Habitica avatar from June 2017 – who wouldn’t want to complete tasks to be able to buy pirate gear? 2. Breaking down tasks is something I need to improve in general, so while it didn’t work for me at the time, I think it is a good way to use Todoist and Habitica together. I think I abandoned this system because I tried to add “actions”, like “Start working on task A”, to Habitica, since I knew that “Task A” was not feasible within a day. So every morning, I would go through Todoist, decide my MITs, add them to Habitica, and (hopefully) complete them by the end of that day. These are three tasks that advance your important projects, and, if these tasks are the only things you get done, you would be satisfied with the day. My first attempt at using the apps together was a Habitica daily, “Add 3 MITs (most important tasks) to Habitica”.

Or you could try to do both, and sync the two apps by hand – the horror! In this post I describe a few alternatives I have tried to use Todoist and Habitica together, and the system that I currently use. For example, if you want to run 10K, you could schedule a recurring task “go for a run” in Todoist, or you could add “go for a run” as a habit in Habitica. It can easily seem that there is overlap between the two. Recently I have written a few posts about how I use Todoist and Habitica, a habit tracker (check out my posts on decision fatigue, food, and exercise).

Todoist recurring tasks with subtasks