TickTick

TickTick is my go-to task management tool — lightweight, fast, and just structured enough. I use it to handle both recurring daily routines and larger project checklists.

Why I Use It

• Cross-platform: Works seamlessly across Android, desktop, and web.
• Shared task lists: Organizing chores, home renovations or just our groceries shopping collaborative with my wife is essential.
• Tagging and Folders: Keep my tasks organized and managable.
• Reminders & calendar views: The built-in calendar and natural language processing help me keep track of tasks with minimal friction. The integration of our shared Google Calendar makes TickTick my daily dashboard to stay organized.
• Checklists & subtasks: Great for breaking down routines or project phases (e.g. house renovations or long-term garden maintenance).

How It Fits My Workflow

While most notes and knowledge live in Obsidian, TickTick is the execution layer. Tasks get tagged with context (e.g. home, band, garden, calls) and reviewed during my weekly planning.

Projects that require both structure and memory (like the setting up my Home IT or Scolohub.com) often start with a task list in TickTick and expand into notes in Obsidian.

Limitations

• Not open source and not self-hostable, which would be ideal long-term.

Nice Features - that I don’t use

• Notes: I tinkered with notes in TickTick for a while, to keep everything in one place. But it’s not the core competence of the app and lacking the features I need. But it has Markdown support, that’s a plus!
• Pomodoro Timer: A methodology that never worked for me…
• Habbit Tracker: I want a simple tool to track habbits, not for shaping them.
• Kanban Mode: Too much overhead for me.

TL;DR

A practical tool that works well since years — and helps keep my brain from juggling too many tabs at once. One of the few cloud services I subscribed to.