Log Todoist Completed Tasks into Reflect through IFTTT

Name of the task ↗. Description of the task. 🚀 An incredible project > Project section. 📱LabelDigital 🚶‍♂️LabelErrand 🏠LabelHome.

Another task with a description but no section nor labels ↗. Note that a task always has a project in Todoist, even if it's just "Inbox". The rest of the metadata (description, section, and labels) is optional. 🚀 An incredible project > Project section.

A task with three comments ↗. ✏️ A stupid project. 🚶‍♂️LabelErrand.

This task contains a link in its name ↗. The linked arrow is the link to the completed task in Todoist. In my first versions of the applet the entire task name was the link to the task, but any external link in the name would break it. Also it was a bit distracting having such long links. 🚀 An incredible project. 🚶‍♂️LabelErrand.

Another task with three comments about task formatting ↗. ✏️ A stupid project. 🏠LabelHome.

In If this choose the service Webhooks. IFTTT provides two types of webhooks that can be easily confused and both are used along the automation. Pay attention which one must be used in each step. Here select the trigger Receive a web request. As Event Name insert todoist2reflect or really any other you prefer.

Add a query to the applet. Choose the service Webhooks and the query Make a web request with JSON response. Complete the fields:

Add a Filter code to the applet after the query. Paste this javascript:

// Extract the task information from the first IFTTT applet
let task: any = MakerWebhooks.event.Value2;

// Retrieve and parse comments
let comments: any = MakerWebhooks.makeWebRequestQueryJson[0].ResponseBody;
let parsedComments: any[] = JSON.parse(comments);

// Initialize formattedComments to ensure it's defined even if there are no comments
let formattedComments: string = '';

// Format the comments if there are any
if (parsedComments.length > 0) {
  formattedComments = parsedComments
    .map((comment: any) => {
      const date = new Date(comment.posted_at);
      // Ensure the month and day always have two digits
      const formattedDate = `[[${('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2)}/${
        ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)
      }/${date.getFullYear()}`; // Note: Closing brackets omitted until Reflect supports backlinks to daily notes from API
      const contentLines = comment.content.split('\n');
      const indentedContent = contentLines
        .map((line: string, index: number) =>
          index === 0 ? line : `\t${line}`
        )
        .join('\n');
      return `- ${formattedDate}. ${indentedContent}`;
    })
    .join('\n');
}

// Format body of the request
let body_request = JSON.stringify({
  text: `${task}\n${formattedComments}`,
  transform_type: 'list-append',
  list_name: '[[☑️ Tasks]]',
});

// Set body of the webhook
MakerWebhooks.makeWebRequest.setBody(body_request);

Back to the Edit screen of the applet select Then, choose the service Webhooks and the action Make a web request. Complete the fields:

Back again to the Edit screen, the applet should look like this:

Click Continue to save and name the applet to your preference. I use "Todoist Completed Task to Reflect - Step 2".

Copy the webhook URL from the details section of the applet and keep it somewhere, you will need it in the next steps.

In If this choose the Todoist service and New completed task as trigger. Connect your Todoist account to IFTTT if you haven't done already. Let the option Project to watch as Any project.

Add a filter code to the applet and paste this javascript:

Back to the Edit screen select Then, choose the service Webhook and Make a web request as action. Complete the fields:

Back again to the Edit screen, tis first applet should look like this:

Create and complete a few tasks with different combinations of labels, projects, comments, and descriptions and wait up to 20 minutes for them to show in the daily note. If nothing happens, ensure both applets are connected and check their activity to try to understand what’s happening. You can do so by selecting View activity on the main screen of each applet.

"Wait, up to 20 minutes? You said 5!" If you check the activity view of the first applet, it might soon get filled with "Trigger failed" notifications with a generic "There was a problem with the trigger". IFTTT support explained to me that these "trigger failures are mainly occurring due to timeouts from the Todoist API, meaning it took longer than 8000 milliseconds to respond to our trigger check". I requested them to at least change the generic error to a more specific one. IFTTT will keep trying to retrieve the completed tasks, but this might take a while until the Todoist API responds again.

Sometimes, after reconnecting the applet, IFTTT sent me all the tasks that were ever processed by the applet. When this happens, a crazy long list of tasks arrives in my daily note. I reported the bug to IFTTT and apparently they fixed it, but it happened to me again later. Tell me in Discord if you experience the same issue.

Replace the last four lines of the filter code with this:

In Then, fill the fields of Make a web request like this:

URL: https://reflect.app/api/graphs/GRAPH_ID/daily-notes

Method: PUT

Content type: application/json

Additional headers: Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN.

Add a shorter alias to the note ☑️ Tasks letting the title like this: ☑️ Tasks // ☑️

Change this line in the filter code of the first applet to add the checkbox ☑️ backlinked to that note at the beginning of each task.

☑️ Name of the task ↗. Description of the task. 🚀 An incredible project.🚶‍♂️LabelErrand.

7. Arrange the information of the tasks in other way. Change line 29 of the filter code of the 1st apple.

8. Change the name of the parent list. Indeed mine is ☑️ Tareas in Spanish. Change line 35 of the filter code of the 2nd applet.

9. Change the separator between elements. After several iterations I realized a simple dot made the tasks easier to read and less distracting than other separators, considering backlinks already offer a good visual indication. You may prefer other options like a slash /, a vertical bar | or an em dash –. To do so, replace the dots inside the strings of lines 18, 25 and 29 of the filter code of the 1st applet.