I feel your pain! The best one I have found is TickTick - it's fast, cheap, feature-packed for individuals, and easy to use. It integrates with your calendar and you can link it with other apps through Zapier if you want to get all fancypants with it.
I'm a very rigorous user of task lists (I have been using GTD methodology for 20 years and have never found anything to beat it), so if it's anything that needs doing in any area of my life, it goes into that list. (I use the TickTick app, which is awesome).
I use the HubSpot free CRM to track all of my writing projects, deadline dates, etc, and I have a Zapier automation that copies the stuff across to TickTick. I then use the TickTick comment section to take notes on specific pieces, for links, briefs, etc.
The key to getting to-do apps to work is to prioritize and filter properly. Understand how all of the tasks fit into your personal and professional life, then use various techniques to manage them. It's the only way I've been able to stay on top of things as I got into freelancing.
We’re flattered to hearing all of this and it’s always our pleasure to help you boost productivity and lead a better life! You're welcome to join the referral program and earn a little rewards for recommending TickTick around: https://ticktick.com/refer. Hope you like it : )
I'm a busy freelancer, and I use TickTick in conjunction with google calendar to plan and manage my time. I started out with the free version and once I knew it was working for me moved up to the paid. It's only $28/ a year and to me it worth it because it helps me manage my projects, my time and plans for the future. There are timers, tag, you can sort by date or by priority. I love that you can use voice to add to your list, and add images, links, and urls. Plus, it's very satisfying checking off items on your to do list.
Hope this helps!
You can view the features here: https://ticktick.com/about/features
> I’m going to look into TickTock now!
Just to clarify, it's TickTick, presumably named after ticking things off your to do list.
Not to be confused with that other similarly named app that all the cool kids are using lately.
You'll probably be able to choose 3 out of 4 of those. To-Do is free but doesn't have attachments yet, Todoist has all but is a paid product and their Windows app is garbage (web is great though), TickTick might work out: Their free tier has both reminders and file attachments, but has quantity-based limits on basically everything.
That said, paying for software is a good idea. If you go with free, what happens is you join, invest time into the software and then it goes kaput because people don't want to pay others for their work.
Hi, I was never schedule-oriented prior to my first year here, but I've found some stuff that works really well.
I use Google Calendar to keep track of all events, from classes to tests to non-school events. You can set up classes to repeat on certain days every week until the end of the semester really quickly! I then use TickTick to keep track of assignments and goals for studying.
Some people do better with this kind of stuff on paper, but I find being able to have an electronic record of everything that I can access from any device really useful
I think he's referring to an Outlook Addon for TickTick.
Funny, but I can't find it anymore. But I believe there was an official TickTick page about it.
I was also testing it couple of months earlier, but it was buggy and in general didn't work well for me.
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Edit: found it here: https://ticktick.com/about/download?language=en\_US
Update #2 for today: I got it to work! Here are the steps I took:
pkill -f TickTick defaults delete com.TickTick.task.mac rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.TickTick.task.mac rm -rf ~/Library/Group\ Containers/75TY9UT8AY.com.TickTick.task.mac killall -u $USER cfprefsd
u/DavidWickerHF -- hope this helps!
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When "Habit" is enabled on mobile apps, desktops can display the corresponding Habit data in "Today""Next 7 Days", and "Calendar". Directly from desktops, you can see what habits you have for today; view statistics of each Habit; receive reminders; and check in the Habit.
Here is the link for easy access: https://ticktick.com/about/download
I experience the same thing on another site: https://ticktick.com
After an hour of using that site, and nothing else, FF will be occupying well over 2GB RAM. I think it once got up over 4GB.
I find myself having to restart Firefox very frequently if I'm using any web-apps.
Not specifically PC but I have gravitated to using TickTick (https://ticktick.com) app on my Android phone. The webpage is also nice and your browser can show notifications. Not sure if the browser can be configured with "Annoying Alert" like the app though.
I really like the features of this tool for more than the reminders, but I do have a lot of bill reminders and other recurring stuff which works great.
EDIT: Forgot that it has really good sync which is one reason I liked this over others.
I’ve been using TickTick for about a week now. Development appears to be active. Runs/Syncs on all my devices. It’s not perfect, but it’s helped me visualize the time I have available and helping me to not over promise.
Long time OmniFocus user (haven’t given up on that tool yet) and used many others over the years. There are some things like very small text on the calendar that I can’t adjust and other little things that have not been deal breakers at this point, but overall, it’s been a productive tool for me.
Currently on their monthly plan, I’ll likely bite the bullet for the annual fee before my subscription renews. It’s not crazy expensive and developers deserve to get paid for a good product that provides value.
Try the free version and decide for yourself: https://ticktick.com
Hope this was helpful!
I'm having small success transitioning to TickTick while searching for alternatives to Inbox's reminder platform. There's no email aspect to it, but it's keeping me afloat while I find a one-size-fits-all solution.
I actually second this... The main premium feature that I'm attracted to is the Siri integration, but it doesn't seem like I would use the other features. I wish they offered a premium trial. Here's a list of all of the features: https://ticktick.com/about/upgrade?language=en_US
I use ticktick for it. It's free for this kind on functionality.
link: https://ticktick.com/. May be it's worth looking into
Also, it has webapp.
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Using it about 5 years and never was disappointed. Pretty solid piece of software
There are apps that work across Windows and iPhone.
If you're not willing to pay for a subscription and need reminders, Todoist is out.
I'd probably look into To-Do and TickTick. Both have access via browser, a native Windows app (Win10 only for To-Do) and mobile apps and do reminders, due dates and subtasks free.
There are Kanban apps that might also work, but I'm not familiar with them.
> Todoist is nice for me because I share task lists with others that don't have android and it has both IOS and web.
Also, I forgot to mention that TickTick also has an iOS version, and their web interface is amazing.
TickTick for work and personal. Smart lists allow me to keep them separate. And I use the web version on desktop and Chrome, while the Android app and widget works great on mobile.
TickTick is my to-do list of choice, and it maintains an entire list of all your completed tasks (and you can even toggle whether completed tasks are shown in the regular to-do list). It seems like it would serve your needs perfectly, and it's available on almost every platform.
the calendar subscription will show all event in the web https://ticktick.com/webapp/#c/all/calendar/m, but the old version app can't show all.
now it's show all subscription event in android app and windows app.
Oops. Sorry for misreading it!
There are screenshots on the front page of the Tasks plugin docs showing how it presents results. It's very much about creating lists of tasks - it looks like TickTick does a lot more.
Here's a link to TickTick to save others having to search for it too.
To further detail the answer (which solved my problem, thanks!):
Go to TickTick Web > Your Avatar > Settings > Calendar & Mail (this URL)
Then in the "Subscribe TickTick in your calendar app" section (which should be the second one), you will see a "Enable the URL" button.
When you click it all your lists will appear in a dropdown, then you simply choose the one you want to have a specific calendar URL created for.
(Cannot post images here which would help a bunch so had to be detailed in text 🤷♂️)
I hope this helps!
I agre with this sentiment! I can vouch for TickTick as a good task management system, as it helps me manage my work projects. I would suggest Text Blaze for writing if you are needing help improving your typing or automation. Be careful, though, as it is easy to get caught up in using productivity tools and not actually be productive
I recently discovered ClickUp. Its free tier is very generous and it has features that combine many of the apps you mentioned. It is a big piece of software but I am giving it a go. It has countless features.
If you are note taking kind of person with tasks on the side, Amplenote is worth a look at. At its core, it is a note taking app but it has task management features built in. It is very light and very fast. Its free tier is very generous.
TickTick is another one that I absolutely love. At its core, it is a task management software with many other features built in, including note taking, habit tracking etc. Its free tier is also very generous but its premium plan is very cheap.
If note taking is your #1 with task management #2, go for Amplenote. If task management is your #1, go for TickTick. If you want to have it all, go for ClickUp.
Let me know what you think of these tools.
I've recently been using Centered to track tasks, analyze which apps I spend the most time on each day, and it keeps me in focus. I input my tasks there every morning so I know what to do during the day. It has a digital coach that tells you you're not studying when you go to another app, so it kind of makes you feel guilty/makes you remember what you are doing. I use Ticktick for reminding/planning more long term. Once I finish a task in centered, I just check it off of this app. I use Notion for database, notes, and also a better visualization of the timeline of my classes/video lectures.
Ticktick isn't really a need since Notion+Centered can do what it does, I guess it's just a force of habit since I've only been using Centered for a few weeks. All of them have desktop apps for iOS and Win, but can also be accessed through their respective websites.
Based on ticktick's page https://ticktick.com/about/security on the topic, it more or less relies on how well they protect their VPSs on AWS, and how AWS protects the infrastructure. But more or less if there's a breach well that's that. Even major websites do get breached.
They would mention there if the data's encrypted for sure as that's something to boast about, but since it isn't, it isn't. They wouldn't be able to have that search feature or auto-complete task feature as fast as it is online if things were encrypted. Again if they could, it's something to boast about.
If you can get money to a trusted person outside of Russia, you could consider using gift cards: https://ticktick.com/card
I used this with the help of my best friend, because I do not own a credit card and none of the payment options allow payment without one.
TickTick might be your best option. It's quite similar to Todoist in many ways but it has a better free tier IMO. There is a paid option that adds more features (Unlimited lists, filters, labels, etc.) if that interests you some day.
ticktick.com, google calendar, reclaim.ai.
New tasks (Soft Landscape) get captured into ticktick inbox via their web-app or phone. If new stuff comes up during the day, unless it will absolutely blow up, it gets captured, categorized and prioritized in ticktick. I separate out the categorization and prioritization steps because my brain tends to get new confused with urgent and important so if I put a delay on it I tend to have better results.
New events (Hard Landscape) happen at a specific time go into Google Calendar.
Reclaim handles habits and helps sync multiple calendars, so I have a single calendar that contains all of my work and personal stuff, synchronized.
I review this stuff about 2x per day only. Everything goes on a physical whiteboard where I write the top 6 items of the day. (Ivy Lee Method). If I have a bunch of small but similar tasks, it will say like 'phone calls'.
Hard Landscape
Soft Landscape
Then I focus all my energy on getting those things done. At the end of the day, I mark off the stuff I completed, categorize and prioritize the new stuff that came in.
you can set your tick tick to automaticaly create tasks from all emails that you receive on a custom provided address. And then set IFTTT to just send there the emails that you wish.
check here: https://ticktick.com/webapp/#settings/subscribe
I use TickTick. If you use it effectively, you can sync your tasks across all of your devices. Good with reminders. I have its widget on phone and reminder turned on for important stuff. You can put weekly and biweekly tasks for thesis.
You could do it in Access, but might be worth looking at modern cloud To Do software. Having this info in the cloud means you could triage To Dos/Tasks/Remiders' from any device Phone/Tablet/PC/Browser. i use https://ticktick.com for heavily lifting (work projects) and "Things" on ios for simpler tasks, like house stuff.
My vote goes to TickTick. I ended up liking it so much that I've been a premium member for several years now. I have it running as a chrome app that basically stays open 24/7 on the corner on one of my monitors. Whenever I have a task to do or if an idea comes to me, it's right there and ready to go.
For anyone interested in running it as a chrome app, just right-click on your desktop, create a new shortcut and enter the following when it asks you for the location of the item:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=https://ticktick.com/#q/All/tasks
(Optional) To change the icon to the TickTick logo, right-click on the shortcut > Properties > "Shortcut" tab > Change Icon > and browse to the following folder to find the icon:
*%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Applications\ticktick.com\https_80\*
In addition to the above uses, I also use it for daily journaling and and for keeping summarized versions of anything I research on the net. This became especially useful when my wife and I bought a house. There were so many things to repair/upgrade, so I found myself spending lots of time reading/learning how to do each type of repair. Soon afterwards, I'd forget a lot of what I had read & would need to research it all over again if I had to do a similar repairs down the road. Learning from my mistakes, I then started to add all the important points from each site/article I read so that I can use it as a Coles Notes version down the road.
This also applied to car repairs, Excel functions, CSS reference, recipes, etc...
If you want a really good tasks app I highly recommend TickTick, I’ve tried a bunch of other apps and this one has the most useful features that are free. It is also available on pat platforms
You can't do what you are trying to do because Gmail doesn't provide a "Share with app" feature for an entire email. There's nothing TickTick can do about that, but there are two options for what you want to do:
The first option is good if you only want to send part of a message to the task, while the second option is the fastest and smoothest way to send something that you'll edit later. Just create a contact entry with your custom TickTick email address, and from then on all you have to do is forward a message to that contact, whether on mobile or your desktop, and it'll show up in TickTick.
Full Instructions:
Hey! I recommend you get the TickTick app (phone, tablet, desktop and web). It’s genuinely my favourite app to get things done. And if having your tasks more public is a motivator for you, you can have shared task lists with other uni mates so you can each see when you’re completing your tasks. Try it - its free! Or if you want shared lists and a calendar function it’s only £1.97 a month - total bargain. Give it a go and let me know how you get https://ticktick.com[TickTick](https://ticktick.com)
The best existing app I can found is Ticktick. It combines Todoist, Calendar, and Eisenhower-matrix all together. It utilizes tags and priorities you set to each task to draw the four quadrants and acts somewhat like how the above demo works.
Thanks very much for this report. Sad as the news is, it's also somewhat comforting, as I now know it's not just me.
I'm disappointed to see the functionality disappear. I'm switching to a LightPhone II and was hoping to be able to send SMS messages to a few email addresses to trigger filters and other actions (e.g., I use TickTick, which allows a user to send a text message to a customer email address in order to add an item to a to-do list for later).
Thanks again.
Since I'm also using Vivaldi, I just tried to add my TickTick Calendar Feed to Vivaldi and found out this:
Change the "webcal:" part of the URL to "https:" and it should work.
So instead of having something like this as the URL:
webcal://ticktick.com/pub/calendar/feeds/12345/basic.ics
...It should look like this:
<code>https://ticktick.com/pub/calendar/feeds/12345/basic.ics</code>
In Vivaldi:
Go to Settings - Calendar - Calendar Accounts - Add Acount (the small + icon)
In the next step, choose "Web Calendar" and then paste the modified TickTick URL and you should be good to go.
OmniFocus does have web access, so you can use it on other OS's. I can understand their choice te be focussed on Apple only. Porting Omnifocus to other platforms is not easy and they are a relatively small company I think. An Android version would be nice..
Todoist is great, it works on every platform and gives a lot of features, but if you need to change your workflow for an app it will not be easy. Also because Todoist works on every platform it does not work as consistent as native apps do. This is a problem with many apps that work on multiple platforms, especially on MacOS this means more friction in using it. I personally dislike the webbrowser interface Todoist uses on Windows and MacOS, on iOS the experience is great (better than Omnifocus).
I use Omnifocus to track my personal tasks and projects. I do have lists with tasks which my Spouse and I share. When we decide to work on stuff from these lists we talk about what each of us will do in which case I might log personal tasks in my lists.
You might consider TickTick https://ticktick.com/home. Looks a lot like Todoist but does have start dates and multi platform possibilities.
I don't think this is an easy one. At the risk of sounding repetitive, you're asking for all 10 versions of TickTick to be able to accurately control notifications between all the devices you may have, in real-time. I don't even know if this is possible from a security PoV. I understand the sentiment because I too use TickTick on the same 3 devices as you do, but this one may not be fixed in the near-future
I use and really like TickTick! Good UX/UI and functional for my personal use. It has a tasks feature (like a standard to-do list) as well as a habits feature for reoccurring tasks.
I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:
I did the honors for you.
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Step 1: go to TickTick.com
Step 2: go to Settings --> Backup --> Todoist --> Import
Step 3: enjoy life again
TickTick is how Todoist might be in the year 2030 (or probably later). Kanban and calendar are already deeply integrated, natural language parser exists of course as well.
You have to try Tick Tick. I just switched from Todoist to this a week ago. Does Habit tracking, pomodoro(I haven't used this yet). Works on all platforms. Definitely worth every damn penny. It is the perfect tool. Miles better than Todoist. Only thing I miss from Todoist is link parsing. But not a deal breaker at all.
I've recently started using TickTick, kinda helping me to keep my shits in one place. Wish it had the note-taking feature.
Haven't tried Evernote yet tho. Might give it a try maybe.
TickTick works best for me! Although I'm not entirely sure what you mean by making a schedule, you can enter times and due dates for the todo's you make! It's also got a stopwatch function in case you want to time without pomodoros.
I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:
I did the honors for you.
^delete ^| ^information ^| ^<3
Yeah sure! It's nothing fancy, but I have a bookmark on my browser with this as the URL/Location:
javascript:(function(){window.open("https//ticktick.com/","_blank","menubar=no,location=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,left=0,top=0,height=733,width=505");})();
In the URL you can switch it out with the path to any of your lists (ex. I direct mine at work only to my work lists automatically). The height and width work well for my setup on my laptop screen as it takes up a third and leaves the other third for Skype.
Also, I actually prefer using this on IE because the window isn't sizable as it is on other browsers. I prefer that for this use-case but feel free to use it anywhere!
Doesn't appear to. Using both the app and accessing via browser on a Mac, Little Snitch tells me it access Ticktick.com, Crashlytics, cloudfront (Amazon Web Services) and that's it. Brave Browser tells me that it's tried to access cloudfront and Google analytics.
Health warning - I'm not a network guru, but hope that helps
Look at TickTick.com
I was looking to do exactly the same as you and found what I did at work vs home were world's apart. I think if your environment has a work feel (desk, uniform, other people in uniforms around you) software workflows work.
For personal stuff, the bullet journal / checklists and just visually work in a way to keep you honest with yourself. Every time I see those cleaning schedules at the entrance of a food court toilet I smile. I limit the software at home to give me time specific reminders (buy coffee before 1pm). My personal demon is time management and getting distracted so I've also opted to use interval timers to force myself to stick within time limits for all the basics and turning the habits into a checklist.
For example my morning checklist using a timer is:
I insert any habit into that list I want to maintain. Ticking it off is easy whether it be a paper or software checklist.
Currently using a casio GBD-800 watch as an interval timer.
TickTick can do the first 2. The third I'm not sure; it has location-based and frequency-based. While I've not tried them together, my experience with the app suggests it should work the way you expect.
It's $27.99 annually.
TickTick is my favorite so far. https://ticktick.com/zFVY6?u=8977acae38e24a4fb00b5d857bddb205
The paid version goes for about 25 a year and gets you a few upgrades like a calendar function and different color themes but the free version is 100% functional.
You can make multiple categories, lists in each category, sublists within a list, set dates, priority, and tags, repeats... It has an app and a web interface which syncs in real time.
Try https://ticktick.com/ app. I think it's a great app/website but too bad that I don't utilise it well. Heck, I don't even use half of its utility. Massive recommend though. Check it out!
Have you tried TickTick yet? Definitely a game-changer to me in organizing tasks, as well as searching through those accomplished. Currently, it is my go-to recommendation for anyone looking for an alternative to-do list app. Although you have to annually pay a small amount fee to get all premium features, it's worth every penny.
By looking through this reddit thread, I found something which I'm currently importing my lists to, so I can check it out. Ticktick.com
Otherwise, as I mentioned in my OP, I currently am using notion.so for work, but it works in a different manner than Wunderlist/TickTick in terms of item management and listing/folders. So I wouldn't advise it for multi-list and subfolder layout like Wunderlist, but for just a simple To-Do, it can work :)
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Lawl no. Being a parent is about having a million micro interruptions an hour and it makes spending time with your family miserable.
I journal throughout the day when home, and when working I use the pomodoro method.
When it comes to shared lists we do these adhoc in reminders. Because my wife is anti list making we tend to divide responsibilities in the house and handle tackling what ever way works best for us.
I personally use Tick Tick as my task manager because it has a built in pomodoro function in it. A ticking timer is also a great chore timer with kids who also like to know when something is done.
I don't 🤷♂️. With kids (especially babies) you can either run yourself to death and have a clean house, or you can just run yourself ragged and choose what you let burn to the ground. I prioritize health of my family and so if my house is clean but messy I couldn't care less.
Some examples of this look like,
I don't work on any side hustle stuff at home (unless my family is gone for the day) and instead will make an effort to get up in the morning and exercise and meditate before people are awake.
The primary time I work on side hustle stuff is on lunch at work... so barely at all. This is just an unfortunate fact of life and as the kids get older it will probably get better.
Yes! Don’t worry - you can get them back.
Open any web browser eg Safari on your iPad and go to https://ticktick.com/#q/all/trash. You should see your deleted tasks.
Don’t worry if you can’t see them yet. Try refreshing / reloading the page. If that doesn’t work go to the menu in the top left corner (three horizontal lines next to the word Trash), tap on your username and tap Sync. That should make them appear.
When you do see them, you’ll be able to restore them. I think you might need to do this with each task individually.
I find that if I do this on an iPhone I can tap on each task and restore it to the inbox, then I have to move it back to another folder from there, whereas on a desktop computer I can click on a task and restore it to any folder. Not sure about the iPad.
TickTick have pomodoro tracker, and AmazingMarvin have multiple time tracker that you could activate/deactivate which tracker you want to use (include pomodoro) so it doesn't make you overwhelmed
https://ticktick.com - But, they have their own built-in calendar (which for me is better because I like having a calendar of just my tasks). Also, Todoist's Google Calendar integration was wonky for me and continued to mess up my reoccurring tasks.
I'd love a tool that ticks all those boxes. Closest I've come so far: TickTick
Biggest drawback: No actual project support. I tried to emulate this with what they provide: You can create lists of tasks, and a task can have sub-tasks (sadly those subtasks don't have the same features as the main tasks, f.e. no reminders of their own). I emulate projects by creating a list as a template (stored in a separate directory) and create a copy of it when I need that list.
Task can be repeated (either regular, or relative from completion).
It has a free version, but I'm unsure which features you're missing then.
Note: I want Google Wear OS support as well, so I might be unaware of a solution that works great for your case (like Wunderlist)
I know it has been several weeks, but have you looked at Tick Tick.
I tried to like Microsoft To-Do but it's development it's simply too slow, and compared to the other ToDo apps Wunderlist is still my favorite.
To me Tick Tick seems like the old owners of Wunderlist decided to relauch the app under a new name, but this time with a calendar included.
During my quarterly flirting with other apps, I consistently find that Tick Tick is the next best one after Todoist. It has all of your needs. It doesn't look like it has a Thunderbird addon, but it does have one for Firefox.
From a standpoint of what you get for free, it is actually better than Todoist, with some worthwhile additions for the subscription.
It looks like they have even recently cleaned up a few of my quibbles with it from the last time, at least on the web. I didn't like having to add the task before giving it a due date, etc. I still like how Todoist does subtasks better, especially for how it looks on phones, but that is my only complaint left really.
The minimalist app would be Google Keep but if you need more features (multi platform support, reoccurring tasks, location-based reminders, etc) then definitely go with TickTick. It is basically a clone of Astrid which was one of (if not the) best to-do apps for Android.....until Yahoo bought them and killed it immediately :/