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I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years".

For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily list * I get a small feeling of accomplishment for every task I complete (gamificaion), and for finishing all my tasks (daily task inbox zero).

It works for me.

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Same for me. I started very recently but it improved my productivity very sharply (not just work, also hobbies (music) and cleaning). I use habitica (no affiliation).

I built and use https://flathabits.com daily.

Keeping habits and todo/tasks list separately helps me prevent the latter from monopolizing habit time.

ps. Flat Habits is backed by org (if that's important to you), but this is purely an internal detail if you just want a simple app.

It works for you, because you didn't do what a commenter said elsewhere here.

> We keep adding things we "should get to at some point"

Maybe it's time for a completely new perspective on TODO lists.

For me calendar and remainder helps me achieve it. Having calendar for and ideal day really helps me navigate around the day.

What do you use as a daily task list app? I'm using TickTick on Android, but daily tasks is not its strong point.

Not op. I've been using "habits" for recurring things

Do you mean Loop Habit Tracker? Once it's installed it shows up as 'Habits'.

I did. I didn't realize it went by two names

MS to-do is my go-to. Multi platform and has all the features I need. Open source Linux option is “AO” on GitHub.

https://github.com/klaussinani/ao

I use TickTick, and it’s daily task seems to work well for me. I have a “morning check” and a “night check”, each with some sub-tasks.

Use org-mode or die.

..if you live long enough to set it up.

But do you keep your todos for obtaining the necessities of life in one agenda file or split them up by theme ...

Todoist - https://todoist.com

What app do you use? I've yet to find something that works really well with recurring tasks.

I'm not the OP, but Loop Habit Tracker works well for me.

Todoist - https://todoist.com

My partner swears by it and uses it a lot.

I use Todoist as well and like it, but I'm not sure I'd say it "works really well with recurring tasks".

If you schedule a task as "every Wednesday" then a few weeks later reschedule the task to Friday it doesn't ask "this instance or all of them?" or something. That entire task series is now scheduled for that particular Friday, and once you've ticked it off you won't get any more reminders ever.

If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. :)

This is my experience too. In fact I stopped using todoist due to how it handled recurring tasks - which, like you, is a huge part of how I stay organized. For me, "remember the milk" does recurring correctly and is very low friction.

Oh ya the rescheduling for recurring tasks is one of the places that hurts.

Would you mind sending a report via https://todoist.com/help?

I will do the same now (I didn't as I don't reschedule recurring tasks often)

I just created a tasks for "every Tue", reschedule to tomorrow (Wed) After marking it as finished the next one is still on next Tue

Ah, it seems like if you choose a date in the date picker, or from the "Today, Tomorrow, etc" list it keeps "Every Tuesday" in the text box and gives the behaviour you describe. I always schedule by typing, so I end up replacing "Every Tuesday" with "Wednesday" and then it doesn't work.

Can't help you in that case!

I used it as well. It has its quirks, but I think it addresses a lot of the OPs concerns.

I really wish the CEO would get off his own koolaid and add start dates. I get it, you don't use them. I would find them useful. I spend a good few hours a week trying to work around the lack of start dates in Todoist haha. One day I'll pay someone to set up Omnifocus for me and switch to that.

It would be super convenient and would stop my checking out every god damn todo app that comes across my radar too

I know, break tasks down further if they need a start date, whatever. It doesn't work for me, I tried. I don't want to spend my life organising a todo app I just want to do the things in the todo app and then go lie down

Honestly I'd prefer due date be replaced with start date as far as which is more useful. Using Todoist in that way doesn't work well either, I tried.

I think you need a calendar app for that for now.

Habinator is the best I've found.

Remember The Milk works better for recurring tasks than todoist in my opinion

Todos and reminders are different things.

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