You must download it from F-droid for the sync to be free. On Play Store it's under a paywall by dev decision (to promote open source portals).
On Play Store it's under a paywall by dev decision (to promote open source portals).
Isn't it moreso to support the dev easily?
I use Tasks too :))
I used that until a few weeks ago. It does not support repeated tasks and the widget is essentially the only good thing about it. It's also essentially unmaintained. Even used to donate to it regularly but nothing came of it.
DavX5 suggested I switch to jtx board. It's widget is not as pretty, but at last it's feature complete.
Edit: also Next cloud is a php security nightmare and it's performance bottlenecks are a pain in the rear. For calendar/mail/tasks/contacts I use SoGO. It's pretty barebones but works very well.
Tasks.org is both well maintained, and supports repeated tasks.
I have to correct myself there. I confused that with opentasks. My bad. Sorry
What do you mean it doesn't support repeated tasks? I have bunch of monthly tasks that show up once per month.
Will check those out, thanks!
None because I don't do shit.
I didn't do shit, but I use TickTick to help organize the shit I'm not doing.
I go around telling people my intentions, and then query them 100 times a day about what I should be doing at any given time. If they stop responding then I spam them with emails demanding updates, and if they block my emails then I go to their houses.
I'm very productive.
I've tried so many and even programmed my own and none of them worked for me. I was especially disappointed in the ones that claimed to be AI-assisted.
I wrote one many times over during my career that was amazingly effective, not just for myself but others, too. I can't figure out how to write it for the phone because I am a crummy programmer. I would love to have it again. It had one feature that I am unable to find on any other to-do list app.
What was the feature?
Zero or more prerequisite tasks. End to start dependencies in project management parlance.
Me too! This and auto-populating a "do next" sublist are key features that no commercial software seems to have.
In my last version I had a single list of tasks, and each had a list of "excuses" which were pointers to other tasks. I had filters for showing "all tasks", "not done", "can be done". The one other feature that was helpful was being able to reorder tasks.
Maybe I will get back to work on it. I thought I had found a perfect set of alpha users in the /r/productivity sub, but I'm not on reddit anymore.
Keep us in the loop?
Certainly.
Yes, something like that is so helpful. Just even splitting something down into multiple steps so I will actually do it instead of staring at it in dread.
Right now I'm trying out Joplin tho since it's FOSS and crossplatform.
Went back to college last year and Joplin's been amazing. More off-topic, but the only thing I wish it had was better search result organization.
Todo.txt file on my nas synced to my phone and computer. Works great
I’ve been meaning to find a todo app, but I always forget. I have no way to remind myself. It’s a viscous cycle.
Have you tried diluting your cycle with some water or turpentine to reduce its viscosity?
I’ve been meaning to learn how to spell vicious, but I can never remember to do it. It’s a viscous cycle.
Haha, nice. I had to go back to read his post twice to see what you were talking about.
I hit reply to write something similar myself, but I forgot what it was. I wish there was a way to retrieve the things that fall out of my brain.
A piece of paper folded in my pocketand a travel sized pen....
How do you get reminders from that? 🙃
You go “Oh, right” then take it out and look at it. As quaint as that sounds, for some people it works.
Since my second child, my "Oh right" module has been malfunctioning and has been very unreliable, and the amount of things I need to remember is waaay too many to fit on a piece of paper that can fit in my pocket. I wish I could use your system. 🥲
For sure, there’s no way this system would work for me either! I would need a to do list in another place that had a task to check the first to do list.
and Notally, which is still my main notes app while I'm still working on transitioning to Orgmode completely.
TickTick has been my weapon of choice for several years now. Still loving it.
Same! The cross platform availability is what keeps me coming back.
40€/year...ouch
Not cheap but worth it, when you use it not only as your personal task list, but also for habit tracking, small projects management and sharing with others.
I use Trello to manage several lists (recurring daily, Tuesdays only, one-offs, etc) and reconcile them into a daily plan each morning
Superproductivity but I'm so irresponsible. Every to do list app I do, I never follow through.
Same (wrt that last part). Trying to find one that works but it’s honestly exhausting after years of seeing them all be pretty much the same. And I can’t really articulate what it is that would make it be the one for me. I know I’m not helping in any way here, lol
I would give superoroductivity a go. You just mark stuff you need to do throughout the week and you can separate your different "projects". It has a nice weekly view and everything as well.
Have you thought about putting 'do todo list' on your todo list?
Tasks.org, synced to nextcloud using webdav
My main requirement is that it has to be available on my heavily locked down work phone and work laptop as well as my home ones. If it isnt in my face whenever I look at a screen, it isnt going to work. So it ends up being Google tasks.
Org mode on GNU Emacs.
A Post-It and a pencil, usually.
Not because "app bad" or "return to monke" or anything like that. Mostly because if I stow the note in a dedicated app, that somehow just makes me less inclined to write it down and read it later.
A scrap of papersticking out like a sore thumb on my desk or burning a hole in my pocket? I'm going to be cognizant of that all day long. But an obscure text file chilling in a disused part of my phone, or a txt file lost in the shuffle of random shit on my PC? Outta sight outta mind.
I also find all digital input schemes to be frustratingly less flexible than physical paper. Provided I have a writing utensil on hand that is functional (not always a given, granted) it is trivial to put anything I want on a note. Write anything I want. Draw diagrams. Underline or strike text. Write some things larger or heavier than others. All of these things are possible in note taking apps, but they come with the idiosyncracies of needing to know the selection techniques and menu options to activate them. In this way they're all death by a thousand tiny annoying cuts for me.
I even had a smart phone with a built-in stylus for a good long while. It definitely extended the things you could do with ease, but it was a far cry from a pencil.
The only thing a note taking app can do in my mind that paper can't is yell at you with a loud noise at a pre-programmed time. If I need one of those, I just set an alarm in my clock app.
Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled
I make lists in Simplenote. I also add stuff to my native Reminders app and then ignore them notifications or keep pushing them off by setting them to fire again later. Sometimes I actually get around to them when I need a task to keep me busy during podcasts.
Weird to not see (at the time I’m writing this) any mentions of “todoist” which people on forums have loved for ages. I’m not a fan at all so I’m glad to finally not see it as frequently. My preference for work, where I have multiple categories and statuses (including a “done and waiting for the other person to confirm” status) is Trello with some automations. For home, just simple reliable entry on phone and desktop, is Ticktick. I particularly love the natural date parsing built into Ticktick (can also be done in Trello with an automation), very useful for super fast task entry and due date/time scheduling.
Things for iOS
I just use the reminders app on my iPhone, I tried a bunch of other apps. But it was the integration on my watch, Mac, iPad, etc that just made that option the most ideal, despite lacking features of some the otbers
I've been a user of the GTD method for many, many years, so any app I use needs to be GTD-specific.
Currently, I'm using Nirvana - have been for about 6 years. I like it so much, I paid for the lifetime sub, so haven't really bothered to look elsewhere since.
I've been using a lot of different apps. Then I tried using tasker plugin along with dataview in Obsidian - but it was too convoluted. I settled on using vikunja for tasks that I need to keep track of, and the things I commit to goes into my "today" note in Obsidian.
Generally it is not advisable to have more than one source of information for your tasks, but this setup worked for me.
I just recently started using Vikunja too, and it's pretty great but really needs more recurrence options. For 90% of my things it works, but there's some things lacking.
Todoist works great for me. I like the recurring tasks feature which lets me clear up a lot of headspace. "Clean XYZ every 11 days #chore" is all the syntax you need to setup a recurring task that's categorised under the "chore" category.
I’ve tried a bunch and def feel TickTick is the best
Seconded.
My nextcloud + Deck
I have multiple
Microsoft ToDo
Clickup
A discord channel
Joplin
And I also use pen and paper
I use them all. Don't ask me why I can't stick with one, because I don't know. But my system works.
I also use a bunch and a head system that works. TickTick has been my go to for high importance tasks/reminders, then 3 more apps for various mental purposes.
I use Amazing Marvin - super customizable to make your own workflow, so you can make it as simple or complicated as you'd like. Small team, but responds super quickly to questions and requests.
I'm currently using Google Keep for personal tasks and Microsoft To-do at work, but want to switch to something self hosted.
My wife and I use Cozi (free tier) for shared lists and calendar. Now we both will know when we need laundry detergent and that we have to meet up with whoever next week even if it doesn't come up in conversation. You can notify each other of calendar additions too, so that side of it doesn't even rely on checking that often.
For simple chores and errands, we just have a white board in the kitchen. We are cute and leave each other notes on it sometimes too.
All the apps... and none of them work for me.
But one that is nice, powerful, and still free usable without working with a 'hello world build a todo application'-app and seems to work for people that actually use todo applications.
Markor
Bitwarden notes
Apple reminder. It syncs with nextcloud ( unfortunately no sub tasks possible) but i am using icloud. The app itself is pretty descent with some cool features
I use neorg for neovim, specifically I use:Neorg journal today to open up a daily .Norge file that I maintain notes, todo, etc on.
If I need to leave a note for myself for the future, I create a note for that day ahead of time.
Google Tasks. Love that it syncs to Google Calendar.
Clickup. Technically it's a project manager, but it's relatively cheap and I've been using it for years now.
Haven't seen Habatica mentioned at all. Sort of gamifies your tasks.
Reminders on the iPhone. It does everything I need it do. I’ve got my basic reminders, and I’ve got my shopping list. All my interaction with it is verbal.
When I arrive at the store I just say “show me my shopping list”.
jtxBoard on Android
A bullet journal. I can't get distracted and doom scroll for hours in a notebook.
I carry my field notes and a pen
Material files. It has a text editor for my todo.md.
Tasks.org, synced with Nextcloud tasks.
You must download it from F-droid for the sync to be free. On Play Store it's under a paywall by dev decision (to promote open source portals).
Isn't it moreso to support the dev easily?
I use Tasks too :))
I used that until a few weeks ago. It does not support repeated tasks and the widget is essentially the only good thing about it. It's also essentially unmaintained. Even used to donate to it regularly but nothing came of it.
DavX5 suggested I switch to jtx board. It's widget is not as pretty, but at last it's feature complete.
Edit: also Next cloud is a php security nightmare and it's performance bottlenecks are a pain in the rear. For calendar/mail/tasks/contacts I use SoGO. It's pretty barebones but works very well.
Tasks.org is both well maintained, and supports repeated tasks.
I have to correct myself there. I confused that with opentasks. My bad. Sorry
What do you mean it doesn't support repeated tasks? I have bunch of monthly tasks that show up once per month.
Will check those out, thanks!
None because I don't do shit.
I didn't do shit, but I use TickTick to help organize the shit I'm not doing.
I go around telling people my intentions, and then query them 100 times a day about what I should be doing at any given time. If they stop responding then I spam them with emails demanding updates, and if they block my emails then I go to their houses.
I'm very productive.
I've tried so many and even programmed my own and none of them worked for me. I was especially disappointed in the ones that claimed to be AI-assisted.
I wrote one many times over during my career that was amazingly effective, not just for myself but others, too. I can't figure out how to write it for the phone because I am a crummy programmer. I would love to have it again. It had one feature that I am unable to find on any other to-do list app.
What was the feature?
Zero or more prerequisite tasks. End to start dependencies in project management parlance.
Me too! This and auto-populating a "do next" sublist are key features that no commercial software seems to have.
In my last version I had a single list of tasks, and each had a list of "excuses" which were pointers to other tasks. I had filters for showing "all tasks", "not done", "can be done". The one other feature that was helpful was being able to reorder tasks.
Maybe I will get back to work on it. I thought I had found a perfect set of alpha users in the /r/productivity sub, but I'm not on reddit anymore.
Keep us in the loop?
Certainly.
Yes, something like that is so helpful. Just even splitting something down into multiple steps so I will actually do it instead of staring at it in dread.
I've made my own for Android: Taskmo
Right now I'm trying out Joplin tho since it's FOSS and crossplatform.
Went back to college last year and Joplin's been amazing. More off-topic, but the only thing I wish it had was better search result organization.
Todo.txt file on my nas synced to my phone and computer. Works great
I’ve been meaning to find a todo app, but I always forget. I have no way to remind myself. It’s a viscous cycle.
Have you tried diluting your cycle with some water or turpentine to reduce its viscosity?
I’ve been meaning to learn how to spell vicious, but I can never remember to do it. It’s a viscous cycle.
Haha, nice. I had to go back to read his post twice to see what you were talking about.
I hit reply to write something similar myself, but I forgot what it was. I wish there was a way to retrieve the things that fall out of my brain.
A piece of paper folded in my pocketand a travel sized pen....
How do you get reminders from that? 🙃
You go “Oh, right” then take it out and look at it. As quaint as that sounds, for some people it works.
Since my second child, my "Oh right" module has been malfunctioning and has been very unreliable, and the amount of things I need to remember is waaay too many to fit on a piece of paper that can fit in my pocket. I wish I could use your system. 🥲
For sure, there’s no way this system would work for me either! I would need a to do list in another place that had a task to check the first to do list.
I use a mix of Org mode via Emacs and Orgzly,
and Notally, which is still my main notes app while I'm still working on transitioning to Orgmode completely.
TickTick has been my weapon of choice for several years now. Still loving it.
Same! The cross platform availability is what keeps me coming back.
40€/year...ouch
Not cheap but worth it, when you use it not only as your personal task list, but also for habit tracking, small projects management and sharing with others.
I use Trello to manage several lists (recurring daily, Tuesdays only, one-offs, etc) and reconcile them into a daily plan each morning
Superproductivity but I'm so irresponsible. Every to do list app I do, I never follow through.
Same (wrt that last part). Trying to find one that works but it’s honestly exhausting after years of seeing them all be pretty much the same. And I can’t really articulate what it is that would make it be the one for me. I know I’m not helping in any way here, lol
I would give superoroductivity a go. You just mark stuff you need to do throughout the week and you can separate your different "projects". It has a nice weekly view and everything as well.
https://super-productivity.com/
Have you thought about putting 'do todo list' on your todo list?
Tasks.org, synced to nextcloud using webdav
My main requirement is that it has to be available on my heavily locked down work phone and work laptop as well as my home ones. If it isnt in my face whenever I look at a screen, it isnt going to work. So it ends up being Google tasks.
Org mode on GNU Emacs.
A Post-It and a pencil, usually.
Not because "app bad" or "return to monke" or anything like that. Mostly because if I stow the note in a dedicated app, that somehow just makes me less inclined to write it down and read it later.
A scrap of papersticking out like a sore thumb on my desk or burning a hole in my pocket? I'm going to be cognizant of that all day long. But an obscure text file chilling in a disused part of my phone, or a txt file lost in the shuffle of random shit on my PC? Outta sight outta mind.
I also find all digital input schemes to be frustratingly less flexible than physical paper. Provided I have a writing utensil on hand that is functional (not always a given, granted) it is trivial to put anything I want on a note. Write anything I want. Draw diagrams. Underline or strike text. Write some things larger or heavier than others. All of these things are possible in note taking apps, but they come with the idiosyncracies of needing to know the selection techniques and menu options to activate them. In this way they're all death by a thousand tiny annoying cuts for me.
I even had a smart phone with a built-in stylus for a good long while. It definitely extended the things you could do with ease, but it was a far cry from a pencil.
The only thing a note taking app can do in my mind that paper can't is yell at you with a loud noise at a pre-programmed time. If I need one of those, I just set an alarm in my clock app.
Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled
I make lists in Simplenote. I also add stuff to my native Reminders app and then ignore them notifications or keep pushing them off by setting them to fire again later. Sometimes I actually get around to them when I need a task to keep me busy during podcasts.
Weird to not see (at the time I’m writing this) any mentions of “todoist” which people on forums have loved for ages. I’m not a fan at all so I’m glad to finally not see it as frequently. My preference for work, where I have multiple categories and statuses (including a “done and waiting for the other person to confirm” status) is Trello with some automations. For home, just simple reliable entry on phone and desktop, is Ticktick. I particularly love the natural date parsing built into Ticktick (can also be done in Trello with an automation), very useful for super fast task entry and due date/time scheduling.
Things for iOS
I just use the reminders app on my iPhone, I tried a bunch of other apps. But it was the integration on my watch, Mac, iPad, etc that just made that option the most ideal, despite lacking features of some the otbers
I've been a user of the GTD method for many, many years, so any app I use needs to be GTD-specific.
Currently, I'm using Nirvana - have been for about 6 years. I like it so much, I paid for the lifetime sub, so haven't really bothered to look elsewhere since.
I've been using a lot of different apps. Then I tried using
taskerplugin along withdataviewin Obsidian - but it was too convoluted. I settled on using vikunja for tasks that I need to keep track of, and the things I commit to goes into my "today" note in Obsidian.Generally it is not advisable to have more than one source of information for your tasks, but this setup worked for me.
I just recently started using Vikunja too, and it's pretty great but really needs more recurrence options. For 90% of my things it works, but there's some things lacking.
Todoist works great for me. I like the recurring tasks feature which lets me clear up a lot of headspace. "Clean XYZ every 11 days #chore" is all the syntax you need to setup a recurring task that's categorised under the "chore" category.
I’ve tried a bunch and def feel TickTick is the best
Seconded.
My nextcloud + Deck
I have multiple
And I also use pen and paper
I use them all. Don't ask me why I can't stick with one, because I don't know. But my system works.
I also use a bunch and a head system that works. TickTick has been my go to for high importance tasks/reminders, then 3 more apps for various mental purposes.
iOS Reminders app synced with Radicale server.
Tasks.org and easytodo.
I use Amazing Marvin - super customizable to make your own workflow, so you can make it as simple or complicated as you'd like. Small team, but responds super quickly to questions and requests.
I'm currently using Google Keep for personal tasks and Microsoft To-do at work, but want to switch to something self hosted.
My wife and I use Cozi (free tier) for shared lists and calendar. Now we both will know when we need laundry detergent and that we have to meet up with whoever next week even if it doesn't come up in conversation. You can notify each other of calendar additions too, so that side of it doesn't even rely on checking that often.
For simple chores and errands, we just have a white board in the kitchen. We are cute and leave each other notes on it sometimes too.
All the apps... and none of them work for me.
But one that is nice, powerful, and still free usable without working with a 'hello world build a todo application'-app and seems to work for people that actually use todo applications.
Markor
Bitwarden notes
Apple reminder. It syncs with nextcloud ( unfortunately no sub tasks possible) but i am using icloud. The app itself is pretty descent with some cool features
I use
neorgfor neovim, specifically I use:Neorg journal todayto open up a daily .Norge file that I maintain notes, todo, etc on.If I need to leave a note for myself for the future, I create a note for that day ahead of time.
Google Tasks. Love that it syncs to Google Calendar.
Clickup. Technically it's a project manager, but it's relatively cheap and I've been using it for years now.
Haven't seen Habatica mentioned at all. Sort of gamifies your tasks.
Reminders on the iPhone. It does everything I need it do. I’ve got my basic reminders, and I’ve got my shopping list. All my interaction with it is verbal.
When I arrive at the store I just say “show me my shopping list”.
jtxBoard on Android
A bullet journal. I can't get distracted and doom scroll for hours in a notebook.
I carry my field notes and a pen
Material files. It has a text editor for my todo.md.