diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdcd0c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "todo-widget/json"]
+	path = todo-widget/json
+	url = https://github.com/rxi/json.lua
diff --git a/todo-widget/json b/todo-widget/json
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..dbf4b2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/todo-widget/json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit dbf4b2dd2eb7c23be2773c89eb059dadd6436f94
diff --git a/todo-widget/todo.lua b/todo-widget/todo.lua
index 78ca262..a2e47f8 100644
--- a/todo-widget/todo.lua
+++ b/todo-widget/todo.lua
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 local awful = require("awful")
 local wibox = require("wibox")
-local json = require("json")
+local json = require("json.json")
 local spawn = require("awful.spawn")
 local gears = require("gears")
 local beautiful = require("beautiful")