Todoist

This platform allows you to connect to your Todoist projects as todo or calendar entities. All tasks get updated roughly every 15 minutes.

A calendar entity will be on if you have a task due in that project. It will be off if all the tasks in the project are completed or if the project doesn’t have any tasks at all.

Prerequisites

You need to determine your Todoist API token. Go to the Integrations > Developer section on your Todoist settings page and find the section labeled API token at the bottom of the page. Copy that token and use it in your configuration file.

Configuration

To add the Todoist integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

Custom projects

You can manually configure the Todoist calendar (only) integration using configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] which can specify “custom” projects which match against criteria you set. You should prefer the above instructions for configuring Todoist from the UI.

Manual custom projects configuration

Configuration Variables

token string Required

The API token used to authorize Home Assistant to access your projects. Above you have more info about it.

custom_projects list (Optional)

Details on any “custom” binary sensor projects you want to create.

name string Required

The name of your custom project. Only required if you specify that you want to create a custom project.

due_date_days integer (Optional)

Only include tasks due within this many days. If you don’t have any tasks with a due date set, this returns nothing.

include_projects list (Optional)

Only include tasks in these projects. Tasks in all other projects will be ignored.

labels list (Optional)

Only include tasks with at least one of these labels (i.e., this works as an or statement).

Here’s an example of a more advanced configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more]:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
calendar:
  - platform: todoist
    token: YOUR_API_TOKEN
    custom_projects:
      - name: 'All Projects'
      - name: 'Due Today'
        due_date_days: 0
      - name: 'Due This Week'
        due_date_days: 7
      - name: 'Math Homework'
        labels:
          - Homework
        include_projects:
          - Mathematical Structures II
          - Calculus II

As you can see, there are 4 custom projects here:

  • A project containing all of the tasks on this account.

  • A project containing all the tasks on this account that are due today.

  • A project containing all the tasks on this account due within the next week.

  • A project containing everything with the label “Homework”, taking only 2 projects into account.

You can mix-and-match these attributes to create all sorts of custom projects. You can even use IFTTT to create a task with a certain label, then have Home Assistant do some kind of automation when a task with that label comes due.

Home Assistant does its best to determine what task in each project is “most” important, and it’s that task which has its state reported. You can access the other tasks you have due soon via the all_tasks array (see below).

To-do list entity

See the todo integration for details on how to manage items on the Todoist to-do list, including actions for creating and deleting to-do items.

Todoist completed to-do items are not visible in Home Assistant because they are not returned by the Todoist REST API. Marking a To-do item as completed is effectively deleting it from Home Assistant, though completed tasks are visible in the Todoist UI.

Calendar entity attributes

  • offset_reached: Not used.

  • all_day: True if the reported task doesn’t have a due date. False if there is a due date set.

  • message: The title of the “most important” task coming up in this project.

  • description: A URL pointing to the task on the Todoist website.

  • location: Not used.

  • start_time: The last time the Todoist integration got updated. Usually within the last 15 minutes.

  • end_time: When the task is due.

  • all_tasks: A list of all tasks in this project, sorted from most important to least important.

  • priority: The priority Todoist reports this task as having. 1 means lowest priority, 4 means highest. Note that this is the opposite of how things are displayed in the Todoist app!

  • task_comments: Any comments added to this task.

  • task_labels: All labels associated with this task.

  • overdue: Whether the reported task is past its due date.

  • due_today: Whether the reported task is due today.

Actions

You may use the actions from the todo integration for creating, updating, or deleting to-do items on the to-do list.

Todoist also comes with an additional action, todoist.new_task that offers more advanced attributes when creating a Todoist task. You can specify labels and a project, or you can leave them blank, and the task will go to your Inbox project.

Here are two example JSON payloads resulting in the same task:

{
    "content": "Pick up the mail",
    "project": "Errands",
    "labels":"Homework,School",
    "priority":3,
    "due_date":"2017-09-12 14:00"
}
{
    "content": "Pick up the mail",
    "project": "Errands",
    "labels":"Homework,School",
    "priority":3,
    "due_date_string":"tomorrow at 14:00",
    "due_date_lang":"en"
}
  • content (Required): The name of the task you want to create.

  • description (Optional): A description of the task.

  • project (Optional): The project to put the task in.

  • section (Optional): The section within the project to add the task to.

  • labels (Optional): Any labels you want to add to the task, separated by commas.

  • assignee (Optional): A member’s username of a shared project to assign this task to. You find the username formatted as bold text in the collaborator menu of a shared project.

  • priority (Optional): The priority of the task, from 1-4. Again, 1 means least important, and 4 means most important.

  • due_date_string (Optional): When the task should be due, in natural language. Mutually exclusive with due_date

  • due_date_lang (Optional): When due_date_string is set, it is possible to set the language. Valid languages are: en, da, pl, zh, ko, de, pt, ja, it, fr, sv, ru, es, nl

  • due_date (Optional): When the task should be due, in either YYYY-MM-DD format or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format (in UTC timezone). Mutually exclusive with due_date_string.

  • reminder_date_string (Optional): When should user be reminded of this task, in natural language. Mutually exclusive with reminder_date

  • reminder_date_lang (Optional): When reminder_date_string is set, it is possible to set the language. Valid languages are: en, da, pl, zh, ko, de, pt, ja, it, fr, sv, ru, es, nl

  • reminder_date (Optional): When should the user be reminded of this task, in either YYYY-MM-DD format or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format (in UTC timezone). Mutually exclusive with reminder_date_string.