Todoist
Turn emails into Todoist tasks
Turn any email into a Todoist task in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Gasworth Heating
Your boiler service is due
Your instructions
Add a task to my Home project to book the boiler service, due next Friday.
Todoist
Add a task to book the boiler service
Home project, due next Friday
You receive a confirmation email once complete, with an undo button that works for 24 hours.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add a task to my Home project to book the boiler service, due next Friday".
The task appears in Todoist, in the project from your instructions. ForwardThis understands plain English due dates, so 'next Friday' works exactly as written.
You receive a confirmation email containing a link to the new task, plus an undo button if something doesn't look right.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
FAQs
- How do I add an email to Todoist?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add a task to my Home project to book the boiler service, due next Friday". ForwardThis adds the task and replies with a link. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with Todoist connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- Can it set a due date in plain English?
- Yes. Todoist due dates accept natural language, so 'tomorrow' and 'next Friday' work exactly as you would type them in the app.
- Which project does the task go into?
- Whichever your instructions name, and it can go into one of that project's sections too. If you don't name a project, the task goes to your Inbox.
- Doesn't Todoist have its own email forwarding?
- It does. Every Todoist project has an email address that turns a message into a task, and it works well. The difference is that ForwardThis is one address for every project, the project and due date come from plain instructions rather than the subject line, and the reply links to the task it created.
- Can it assign the task to someone else?
- On a shared project, yes. Name a collaborator and the task is assigned to them when it is created.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly in case you press undo, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.