I am very happy to see a Todoist user on HN! Founder of Todoist here.
Unfortunately I had I detour in social networks so the work on Todoist has been slow for some years. But about 8 months ago we started fulltime working on it and Wedoist. I think we have some amazing updates coming up that will solve all of your issues (ex. HTML5 enabled web and desktop applications and native mobile apps for iOS and Android).
Stay tuned and please provide feedback of how we can improve Todoist (here or on my email which is in my HN profile).
I'm actually very very happy with Todoist (just reread my OP and found that it made it sound like I was an unpleaseable jerkface) - really the two things that I'd give almost anything to see are a native desktop app with some kind of quick entry (Another Omnitask feature I've been spoiled by.. cmd+space, window pops up, enter details, tab, enter further details like date, enter, task is captured), and as mentioned elsewhere here, a better mobile app. I would pay by the month for something like this!
In any case, keep up what you're doing. You've got a killer app :)
Awesome, very happy to see the Todoist founder here :-)
I compared several todo web apps several years ago, and found Todoist to have the best UI -- never understood why people liked "Remember the Milk" so much.
I haven't used it (or any other todo list) much lately. I decided I need to start maintaining one again, and considered Todoist... but decided on TaskPaper (native Mac app) as it can live separately from my browser tab farm, and input/viewing is about as quick & simple as it gets.
Please just get away from your not-native Todoist app. It's slow, it's not pretty. It's the opposity of the awesome web interface. I used Todoist for a long time , but with time and the increase of my mobile usage(due to iPhone) i needed a decent iPhone app. Just make a decent, beautiful iPhone app, believe me lots of people like me will converse and move to Todoist.
(off-topic: Keep up the great work amix. I've learned lot from you programming blog).
We learned a lesson in mobile development and we are dumping our HTML5 mobile app. The experience is simply too limited and you need to do lots of hacks to make simple things work. For anybody that is thinking about going HTML5: don't do it, it's more a pain than a gain and the user experience won't be good.
We will do a public beta in the following weeks of our iOS version. We will make it public via our Twitter/G+/FB accounts, so stay tuned ;-)
Unfortunately I had I detour in social networks so the work on Todoist has been slow for some years. But about 8 months ago we started fulltime working on it and Wedoist. I think we have some amazing updates coming up that will solve all of your issues (ex. HTML5 enabled web and desktop applications and native mobile apps for iOS and Android).
Stay tuned and please provide feedback of how we can improve Todoist (here or on my email which is in my HN profile).