FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

If you are not yet logged in, please start with logging in. You can easily log in using your existing social media account (currently supporting Facebook and Google). Next you can reflect, which kind of todo lists you might need, like as "housekeeping" or "shopping lists". For each of these kinds you can create an own todo category. This list must not be complete at the beginning. Just create categories that come in mind, you can alter them later on as you wish.

Next you should click the desired category in the navigation to start editing todo lists within it. At PCs you will find your categories in the right sidebar, in the mobile view you will find them in the context menu in the upper left corner.

You can now enter todo lists with their tasks. You are free to use any structure you like here. For example you can arrange them by date giving them names like "today" "tomorrorw", "next week", or arrange them by task type like "cleaning roster kitchen", "cleaning roster bedroom", just as it best fits your way of structuring your todos.

If you want to append tasks to a todo list later on, you can easily use the quick submission mask at the top of each category.

This is an optional behaviour for your todo lists, that you can individually assign to each list. Sometimes it might be useful to still see checked tasks, for example if you want to review a cleaning roster in the end, to get sure, you didn't miss anything. But in some cases - especially when having longer todo lists - you may want to hide completed tasks for a better overview of the remaining tasks. Using Hide completed you can choose at will for each todo list, if you want to hide checked tasks or show them colored green, and you can toggle the display modes anytime you want by activating/deactivating this option. You can toggle this option any time to show hidden tasks or hide them again.

Yes, for this purpose we have reserved the semicolon as a delimiter. If you record tasks using the voice recognition of your mobile device - either when you create a to-do list, or entering tasks in the box at top of the category view - you can speak a text like "milk semicolon eggs semicolon butter". After submitting, there will be three individual entries. So you can use your phone / tablet as a voice recorder and record a complete to-do list in one breath. A future completion will be that you can place a delimeter for your self in your profile for that you can chose a delimeter on your own, that is best supported by your mobile device.

Open the task's menu by right clicking it or clicking on it's gear icon, then you will see the menu option to edit the task. Doing this, an input box appears instead of the task text, letting you change the text. Press ENTER or click anywhere else on the screen to save the changes. Or press ESC to discard them. On mobile devices you can do a longpress on the task to get the same menu to show.

Besides: if you press the TAB key instead of ENTER, you directly jump to to next task while saving the changes in the background. If you do this at the last task, a new input field for a new task is shown, and if you continue with TAB, another new input field is shown and so on. If you use SHIFT-TAB instead of TAB, you can jump to the previous task instead.

Yes. Open the task's menu by right clicking it or clicking on it's gear icon, then you will see the menu option "assign to another todo list". Select the list you like, and the task will be moved from the current list to the end of the selected target list.

Yes. In the todo menu in the upper right corner of the todo box you will find an option "configure". You can select the desired todo category there, where you want to see your todo list after saving.

Yes, but only through the detour of a to-do list that you can completely move to another category.

We try to ensure a high availability for the site. In case the website is unavailable, we send you all current todos via email (by default once a week). This e-mail can be seen as backup on one hand, on the other hand used as a printable offline version if necessary :-) You can even have this mail sent daily if you want.

Currently not. But there is a medium-term plan to care about this.

You are welcome to send us the question using the contact form, we will answer you as soon as possible. Perhaps we will even complete the faq with your question.

Yes, we still have a todo list with upcoming features, especially providing an area for associations, where associations can create todo lists to be shared with their members. Additionally we will provide a forum where you can interchange, as well as a section where you can propose todo lists to be taken in a big template list accessible by everyone, like default cleaning rosters etc. Additionally we will change the notification mechanism so that changes of other users in shared lists are dispayed immediately in your list. Later we willl have an offline app in the queue for Android/iOS.

Your todos will solely be stored on the to-do-go servers located in Germany and therefore underlying the German privacy policies, which are one of the strictest in the world. No copy will remain on your local device, except the browser had been manipulated to ignore our instructions to deactivate the cache. On a regular PC/mobile device with updated browser, no todos or personal data will remain locally. Just a cryptical login token will be stored until logout. Restriction: in case of a missing server connection, all changes since the last server connection will be saved locally until the server can be contacted again.

Naturally the data on the to-do-go servers is protected against unauthorized access, so it is likely more secure there than on your local device that does not have a professional security team permanently closing emerging vulnerabilities.

Also an online storage allows you to access your data from anywhere in the world, and not only from the device on which the data is stored. In particular, this prevents data losses in case of broken or lost mobile devices, and furthermore allows you sharing your todo lists with your contacts.

On larger screens with sidebar, you can see a number after category names in the sidebar. This is the amount of open tasks in this category. In archive categories it's the number of todo list archived there

When a todo list is fully completed (marked green), the "configure" option disappears. Same if all tasks of the list had been checked and therefore a follow up list has already been created and the current list is about to get disposed soon.

Other countries, other customs. Suppose DD is the day, MM is the month and YYYY is the year. In the USA the date is usually written as MM/DD/YYYY, DD.MM.YYYY in Germany and in France DD-MM-YYYY. There are many more countries with different date notation. Therefore, the standard international date format YYYY-MM-DD was introduced in 1988 with the ISO 8601 standard. Since to-do-go does not want to prefer or discriminate a country using the 'wrong' date representation, we simply use the international standard. Do not worry, you get used to it soon :-). In addition to it, times are displayed in 24 hours format. 13:00 is 1pm, 23:00 is 11pm, 00:00 is 12pm. This is only relevant when displaying todo comments with their timestamps.

There is an option for creating a copy of a todo list in it's todo menu. You can do this and then move the copy to the archive. Doing this the original todo list stays retained.

All your shoppings are automatically saved in a personal archive of previous shopping items, that you can also see when clicking the "list of previous purchases" link. If you add a product to your current shopping list that you had in your archive before, it will be positioned according to the order in the archive, which results from your current purchasing behavior.

Each time you finish a shopping list by checking or cancelling the last entry, we will automatically sort the archive according to the order you have checked the entries in the shopping list. Over time, the products are automatically placed exactly in the order in the shopping list, you usually also check them.

Filling in the description of the product and name of the shopping location is mandatory (last one because it defines in which shopping list the entry is placed). If the quantity field is left empty, we assume a value of 1 here.

The fields "Content + Unit" are optional. If they are filled, their value is displayed behind the description of the shopping. Usually it's a good idea to fill these fields, because many goods are produced in different packaging sizes and furthermore these sizes often change over time. It simply prevents heavy thinking in front of the shelves the more precise your specification is. In addition this helps you detecting subtle changes in packaging size over time.

The price field is optional as well. If filled in, we can calculate the estimated total price for your buying. Additionally you can detect price changes over time, especially regarding content and unit. And if a product is on sale, you can easily see your saving compared to the regular price.

This means that you have a shared shopping list in front of you, to which you have not entered "Content + Unit" and / or "Price", but one of the contacts you have shared the shopping list with. The red figures are not from you but from one of your contacts. If you want, you can enrich your own entry of the purchase to the appropriate values. Just click on the link below the shopping list. After that, your own fields are filled with a copy of the values and they are no longer red. Please note that only a one-time copy is created. Maintaining these values is up to you.

If even the name of the purchase is shown in red, you do not already have the purchase in the archive and then get a full copy of this entry for yourself.

Probably not due to massive JavaScript and CSS interactions. BUT: we are absolutely willing to provide a barrier free version of to-do-go. To do so we need inpsirations of persons concerned about how to do that optimally, as we don't want to provide a solution that is not used by anyone just because it is'nt practible. If you are in need of a barrier free version and can explain to us, how such a barrier free version would have to look like, please contact us and tell us your wishes and thoughts about it.