Todoist is the place you put tasks. Pidgy is the place tasks come from. One is a polished list you feed by hand, the other reads your Outlook and Gmail and hands you the list already written, with the reply drafted and the calendar slot waiting.
Pidgy vs Todoist comes down to who does the capturing. In Todoist, every task exists because you typed it, forwarded an email to a project address, or clicked an add-on button. In Pidgy, tasks appear on their own because the agent reads your Outlook and Gmail as mail arrives, pulls out the asks, notices the things you promised in your own replies, and ranks the lot. From there Pidgy groups the tasks into projects with a live percentage, lays them into calendar blocks with Plan mode, drafts the reply in your voice, chases the thread that stalls, and tracks one Inbox Health score. Todoist remains the better choice for a life-wide, cross-platform list with best-in-class quick add and a strong free tier. If your work arrives by email, Pidgy removes the typing.
Both give you a list to work from. Only one of them writes it.
A task manager can only manage what it has been told. Todoist has spent years making the telling as fast as possible, with quick add that understands "every Mon 9am", labels, filters, and apps on every platform. Still, the moment before the typing is yours. You read the email, spot the request in paragraph three, remember what you said you would do, and then add it.
Pidgy starts one step earlier. It reads each message as it lands in Outlook or Gmail and lifts the action items out, ranks them, and in some cases delegates them for you. If you wrote "I'll get the figures to you by Thursday" in a reply, that becomes a task too, which is the one most lists never see. You keep the ability to add tasks by hand, so the personal errand or the idea from a phone call still has a home.
Everything else on this page follows from that difference in starting point.
Four steps that run on their own from the moment mail arrives. In Todoist, each of these is a thing you do.
Follow one task from the moment it exists to the moment it is done, and see who does the work at each stage.
| Stage | Pidgy | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the task into the list | Extracted from each email as it arrives |
Type it, forward it, or click the add-on |
| Catching the promise you made in a reply | Your own commitments become to-dos |
Nothing looks at sent mail |
| Adding something that never touched email | Add by hand any time |
Anything, from anywhere |
| Typing a task in plain English | Through Ask Pidgy or an email |
Quick add reads "every Mon 9am" |
| Sorting tasks into projects | Grouped for you from the mail |
You create and file each one |
| Seeing how far a project has come | Live percentage per project |
No automatic progress figure |
| Fitting the task into a day | Plan mode, drag into a time block |
Calendar layout and Google sync on Pro |
| Writing the email the task requires | Drafted in your voice, you send |
Not a Todoist job |
| Following up when the other side goes quiet | Chase queued automatically |
A reminder, then it is on you |
| Staying motivated to finish | Inbox Health score, tied to real commitments |
Karma points, streaks and levels |
| Working from a phone, or offline | Web-first during early access |
iOS, Android, desktop, offline |
| Paying for it | Early-access pricing |
Free plan; Pro around $5 a month on annual billing |
Notes for people with years of projects, labels and Karma behind them. Nothing here asks you to throw that away.
If you forward emails to a Todoist project address or hit the Gmail and Outlook add-on a dozen times a day, that is the work Pidgy takes over. It reads the inbox itself, so the forwarding step disappears. Todoist's Email Assist can pull details from a message, but only from the one you hand it.
A Todoist project is a container you named and filled. It is as current as your last tidy-up. Pidgy's projects are assembled from the mail, documents, tasks and messages about one piece of work, and each shows a percentage that moves as tasks close. Dorset Holdings year-end sits at 58% without anyone dragging a card.
Karma rewards completing and scheduling tasks, and it does that well after years of tuning. Pidgy's Inbox Health score is about obligations rather than checkboxes. Closing overdue threads and answering clients who are waiting move it most, and it updates every day.
Todoist's natural-language entry, its filters, and its offline apps on iOS, Android and desktop are ahead of what Pidgy offers during early access, which is web-first. If those are the features you open Todoist for, keep it. Pidgy still takes the email side off your plate.
An honest ledger of the work that remains yours.
With Todoist, capture is manual by design. So is filing into projects, so is setting a due date, and so is deciding when in the week the task happens, even with the Pro calendar layout and two-way Google Calendar sync, which reviewers often describe as stopping short of proper time-blocking. When a task involves writing back to someone, Todoist ends at the reminder. The email itself is a separate job in a separate app.
With Pidgy, the send is always manual. Drafts appear in your voice, in Professional, Friendly, Direct or Urgent, but nothing leaves until you click. Placing tasks into the week is a drag in Plan mode rather than an automatic schedule. Tasks that never touched your inbox, the dentist, the birthday present, still need typing in, and Pidgy does not try to be the app for those.
Put the two ledgers side by side and the split is clear. Todoist leaves the front of the process to you and automates very little of the back. Pidgy automates the front, the capture and grouping, and keeps you in charge of the moments that matter, the send and the schedule.
A low-risk way to find out which side of the capture line you live on.
On Monday, connect Outlook or Gmail to Pidgy and leave Todoist exactly as it is. Do not forward anything for five days.
On Wednesday, open Pidgy's ranked list and compare it with your Todoist inbox. Count the tasks Pidgy found that you never added, and look for at least one promise from your own sent mail that you had forgotten.
On Thursday, use Plan mode once. Drag the three biggest tasks into the week, pick a duration for each, set a reminder, and add them to your calendar. Then check whether Todoist's calendar layout would have got you there faster.
On Friday, read the Inbox Health score next to your Karma. If the tasks Pidgy captured were the ones that mattered, you have your answer for work email. If most of your list lives outside the inbox, Todoist keeps its job and Pidgy handles the mail.
Two good tools, two different starting points.
The list that writes itself, from the inbox you already open.
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