Todoist vs TickTick vs Toodledo
Summary
Largest Todoist gripe: No persistent notifications.
Workaround: set multiple reminders or use a different app for reminders.
Largest Ticktick gripe: Completed events are not removed from Gcal. (So reminders appear when the task has already been completed.)
Workaround: don't sync Ticktick tasks to Gcal.
Feature | Todoist | Ticktick | Toodledo |
NLP Task Entry | Yes | Yes | Yes (not as intelligent) |
AI | Yes. Ramble and Email Assist. | In beta. | No |
Price | grandfathered at $29/year; normally $60/year | $36/year | Lifetime subscription |
Overdue Repeating Tasks | Repeating tasks behave oddly. Completing an overdue task from yesterday makes it completed for today. The workaround is to have two tasks due every other day. | Works as intended. | Overdue tasks need to be completed or the due date advanced to the current day. |
Habit Tracker, Pomodoro Timer, Eisenhower Matrix | No (but has integrations) | Yes. Habit tracker is a bit wonky.
Completing yesterdays habits today checks it off. Notion integration is quite good; allows editing of tasks in a "Toodledo" table format. | |
Desktop Notifications | Notifications disappear without any action in Todoist app. ..but if you take action, you can Complete or Snooze (with predefined snooze of 10m) Fantastical can be used to bypass deficiency ("Complete" or "Snooze" with defined times) but has issues with task durations. Also not helpful when not at home PC. | Yes, with customizable snooze and persistent notifications Snoozed tasks appear as snoozed in application (with reminder time) | |
Government Devices | Yes; mobile and web | App not authorized, but mobile app is very good | |
Calendars (in app, not GCal) | Tasks on the calendar are colored by priority. Calendar events have a colored bar showing which calendar they're on. | Tasks on calendar can be colored by list or priority. Calendar events are all the same color (blue) which is also the color of low priority tasks. I like how early morning/late evening timeframes are rolled up. | |
Calendar Sync | Can see Todoist tasks in Gcal, and Gcal events in Todoist, but Todoist tasks created in Gcal don't show up in Todoist. Changing date/time of tasks in Gcal updates Todoist. Completed tasks stay on Gcal but have a checkmark next to them. UPDATE: Sometimes. Other times deleted or completed events remain on GCal. | Two-way sync of tasks. Completed tasks stay on Gcal (but are removed from Ticktick calendar views). Can add Ticktick tasks by adding directly into Gcal. | |
Calendar Sync Speed | GCal events->Todoist and Todoist tasks -> Gcal arrive immediately. | Ticktick tasks -> Gcal arrive immediately. GCal events->Ticktick take some time, but you can manually refresh Ticktick. | |
Calendar Events | cannot create/edit/delete Gcal events on Todoist | cannot create calendar events on Ticktick; can edit/delete calendar events | |
Calendar Views | upcoming: week or month | upcoming: can configure the number of days displayed | |
Fantastical Integration | adds persistent notifications and the ability to snooze/acknowledge overdue events appear on current day (not ideal) | ||
List View (i.e., Today) | I prefer the way that calendar events are in their own section; moot point when viewing as calendar view | calendar events appear chronologically within tasks | |
Integrations | IFTTT, many third party clients and analytics | IFTTT, Notion | |
Desktop Widgets | none | Today view |
Natural Language Processing
Feature | Todoist | Ticktick |
Priority | p1 | !high |
Project/List | #personal | ^personal |
Tag | @waiting-on | #waiting-on |
Reminders | !2p or !30m before |