TickTick encourages you to track habits that you want to develop, such as exercising, meditating, or reading, in addition to tasks. You check off the habits on the days that you do them, just as if they were tasks, but you get different views of your habits so you can see how often you did a habit over the course of a month or on consecutive days. OmniFocus and Toodledo include similar habit-tracking features.
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TickTick’s Daily Notification option sends a push notification with a briefing of all tasks due today or overdue; it appears daily at a time you set. You can view these tasks in various ways, such as Today, Tomorrow, and Upcoming, but you may prefer a more active reminder. Most other to-do apps have those views or something similar, but not all offer a push notification. One that does is Any.do with its Any.do Moment. That version uses audio cues and animations that set the tone for your day, making it more engaging.
Another view typically found only in GTD to-do list apps is the Eisenhower matrix. In this view, you drag and drop all your tasks into one of four quadrants on the page: urgent and important, not urgent and important, urgent and unimportant, and not urgent and unimportant. You might find this view helpful or consider it an endless distraction.
One view that I like is a countdown page, where you set a date in the future and let TickTick keep track of how many months and days are left until then. It’s such a minor feature, but it’s nice to have, and I haven’t seen it in any other to-do list app.
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TickTick tracks how often you complete your tasks by their due dates and tosses them into a page of statistics, available on the web, not in the app. You can see how your productivity measures up in terms of how often you use your Pomodoro timer, how many focus sessions you complete, and what time of day you tend to be the most focused. The statistics page lays it all out for you with charts and graphs, and it’s reasonably helpful, or at the very least, a little interesting. Todoist has excellent productivity reports, as well.
