Please vote for this feature and save time dragging your task all the way to the top of a long list each time you add a task that you want to appear at/near the top.

I agree that it's not a great experience to not have an option. You can set up some custom sorting that reverse sorts the list by date added, but that's simply a workaround.

Thanks. How do you add custom sorting and do you need to turn off drag and drop to do that?
Come on people, vote for the this feature!

Please vote for this feature and save time dragging your task all the way to the top of a long list each time you add a task that you want to appear at/near the top.

Argh, I badly want this. Please RTM, please!

I cannot believe that the default is to move a task to bottom! There shouldn't even need to be an option for this, default should be for task to go to top! In any case, we absolutely need an option to add new task to top yes. This is a critical option for my workflow.

I totally agree! Please RTM. Listen to your users of over 10 years! At least make this an option. Please people, place your vote.

The lack of this feature is driving me mad! Why on earth is the default to add at the bottom?!

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Please RTM. Many responses so far.

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I've just realised that this is still an issue. With most todo apps you can choose whether the tasks go to the top or the bottom of the list. This is really annoying. :/

I also noticed that you can change this by changing the sorting of the tasks to date added. Workaround

Upvoted!

Please

I use Drag & Drop sorting, and I constantly have to add a new task to the current list, scroll to the bottom, drag it up to the top, then I can move it to a different day so it doesn't end up being on the bottom when the day the task is scheduled for comes.

Would love this - thanks!

The one drawback to an otherwise beautiful product.

Any update on this?

Me too. I'm coming from Wunderlist, where this is a standard option. I work in drag and drop mode and it's important to my workflow to have new tasks at the top, so I'm having to drag every single new task to the top. Will seriously consider other alternatives to Wunderlist if this isn't fixed soon.

Would really like this feature as well. I keep coming back to this post hoping that it got fixed.

Me too

Yes please

👍

switched from Wunderlist to RTM and now because of this ... switching back :(

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+1 because this annoys me

I agree. I have used a number of to do apps and this is the first one that does not have an option to add tasks at the top. You can but then you lose drag and drop so you cannot prioritize your tasks. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

Dear Remember the Milk, are you working on this?

I echo everyone else's comments. Please fix this.

Can someone from RTM let us know if there are plans to work on this?

I agree. This is an issue vs. other todo softwares.

I agree completely with this! So frustrating having to drag tasks all the way to the top everytime!

Can we have an update on this, RTM?

I'd love to having this feature.

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This is driving me insane also. Given it's not even a difficult thing to implement, I'm surprised and disappointed that it's still not even being considered. It may become a showstopper for me before long.

Such a basic thing and such a pain. Get it sorted

Can't believe this still isn't added.
Switching away from RTM now before auto-renewal

Come on, RTM. You can do it!

I bet moving the last item to the first place is the single most common user action request of all, by a long way.
It's incredible that they didn't notice it, even if they don't want to read their own "ideas" section.

Any comment from RTM?

+1 please

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Sigh, oh no! I'm coming from Wunderlist. Almost stopped at Todoist, but it had no add-to-top feature. RTM seems great in all respects except this. Yeah, I've got a lot of items in my Inbox. And I want to sort by drag-and-drop. And... I want new items to start at the top. Dragging items from the bottom is probably going to be a no-go and force me away from RTM. I guess they don't care to offer this as a feature since it has been requested for years.

Same as above ^ New items to bottom instead of top is not logical. Came from wunderlist and am baffled by this obvious flaw. Why no remedy after all these comments??

Same as these recent users. Microsoft To-Do (all versions) just came out with a toggle in their preferences for users to choose whether to add tasks to the bottom or top of lists. Would love this!

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Yes, this very necessary for drag and drop lists!

Add my voice to the din. I’m coming from Things 3 on Mac and the friction this is causing me is extreme. Just give us the option!

I hope a lot of people from wunderlist come over cause that will help blow this request up. The problem is it's such a basic--almost 'mundane'--feature that it does not get a lot of attention.

I wish I had this feature as well. Quite often when I am adding tasks, initially, I would want them to go to the bottom since I have a vague idea of what I need to do. After an initial list, however, I am often adding tasks which need to be done sooner than later, meaning I wish they could go at the top. Also, quite frankly, when you have many items in a list you can't see/review the items you add if they go to the bottom leaving uncertainty regarding the tasks entered

RTM, why can't you just have 'position' as a field that can be keyed in on task entry through keyboard shortcuts? Clearly you have some concept of position with drag and drop lists. Let's assume % was the position shortcut key. If I could just type "lorem ipsum %1" and the task ended up in position 1, problem solved

Upvoted. Amazed this has been lingering for 3 years. Long enough for the reporter to find an alternative it looks like...ug.

RTM team, this would be an super duper awesome quality of life improvement. 🙏

Heh, I know I already posted in this thread before...

Dear RTM,

Please add this issue to your TODO list.

Ideally at the _top_.

Many thanks for an otherwise great product.

This would be a really nice feature to have.

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I hate to admit that lists get away from me and get long - and I will admit I love drag and drop - but I agree - and it's disappointing to see a feature request approaching 4 years without even a response - i would like the "option" or even the default to be new tasks (even while I am using drag and drop) to PLEASE go to the top of the list!!

Adding to this -- I want the choice to add a new task to the top of a list of a drag and drop order -- often I'm adding something urgent and I don't want it to get lost at the bottom of the list.

Agree! Add new tasks to the top!

There's now a feature to sort tasks by last date added on the computer, but not on the mobile app. Please add that feature to put new tasks on top in the mobile app as well!

Actually that feature is only for paid accounts... would be great if you could make it available to the free account as well..

Nevermind that’s not true. It only allows you to put the list in order from latest date added, but you can’t drag and drop any of the tasks. We just want a way to keep the drag and drop format, but allow for new tasks to be added to the top so we don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the list every time. Please!!

Yeah, this was the first thing that bothered me. I think they're sending it to the development team for review, which would be awesome! I'm surprised this issue has been around this long. I could even fix it for them for free.

2 years ago I left RTM because of this. Users are asking for this for 7 years. Would like to move back but I think this is impossible to implement, otherwise it would have been done.

Yet another STRONG vote for this. It just doesn't seem that hard to implement as either the default or an option.

I keep coming back to RTM and then leaving it because of this single issue - that new items go to the bottom of the lists. I have long lists, and it's a total PITA. Please add this feature! :)