TickTick 6.4.20 review: Prioritized to-do list with focus timer

TickTick is a feature-rich app for organizing your lists

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If you’re tired of cluttered lists and feel like you’re chasing a runaway train forever, check out TickTick. Not to be confused with TikTok. This powerful to-do list app lets you organize your essential tasks into prioritized lists and focus timers that you can tick off of your list.

You can enable daily notifications to alert you at a set time and get an overview of today’s tasks, including overdue and all-day tasks. If you tend to procrastinate, turn on Constant Reminder to keep reminding you until all your tasks are done.

TickTick has built-in features that facilitate productivity tools like the Eisenhower Matrix and Pomodoro Timer. Using both methods will greatly improve your ability to check off your daily to-do list and lead a more productive day.

The Eisenhower Matrix sorts your tasks by urgency and importance into a grid of four boxes to show you what to focus on next. The Pomodoro Technique helps you manage your time based on 25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of rest. This keeps you on track and not overwhelmed when completing your day’s work.

To access features such as the Eisenhower Matrix and TickTick’s Pomo timer, these features are hidden by default and must be enabled. Tap the tab bar to toggle between the features you want, such as the Eisenhower Matrix, Pomo Timer, or even a calendar or habit tracker.

Being pulled in multiple directions with no end in sight can be counterproductive. By prioritizing urgent tasks from less important tasks, you can focus on what really matters and get it done on time.

TickTick helps you filter your daily tasks by priority. For example, if you need to finish a presentation before your team meeting on Friday, flag it as high priority and set a reminder to finish on time. Flag the subtasks accordingly and sort the list by importance.

By default, the daily to-do list separates what needs to be done today. That way, you can complete your tasks without worrying about what you have to do tomorrow, next week, and so on.

For advanced prioritization, TickTick works with a popular productivity method, the Eisenhower Matrix.[アイゼンハワー マトリックス]The tab shows tasks sorted into four boxes, from urgent and important to non-urgent and unimportant.

Organizing your tasks visually makes it easier to decide which to work on first and which to remove.

With TickTick’s Pomo timer, you can set breaks to focus on your work. This way of working allows you to get more done with less procrastination and distractions.

You can play background sounds to help you focus while using the Pomo timer. Some of these could be useful, but some were frankly ridiculous.

All white noise sounds except clock require a paid subscription. The Clock sounds like the ominous ticking of an analog clock.

Some paid options sounded good, like morning, forest, and storm. Other paid white noise sounds such as Chewing, Fries and Whale were outlandish.

It’s harder to find a Pomo timer on the desktop than on the iPad or iPhone. On your desktop,[設定]>[機能]>[フォーカス]>[Pomo タイマーを有効にする]must be turned on and turned on manually.

A habit tracker with a built-in mini journal check-in helps you build good habits. There are pre-built habits under categories like health, sports, and mindset, all of which contribute to a more productive lifestyle. Helpful.

It’s easy to check your habits for the day and keep track of whether you did them that day, but it’s even more effective to look back at how well you did and why.

Add habits you want to start, such as eating vegetables, exercising, or reading. You can even choose an emoji and enter a quote to motivate you to develop this habit.

Customize frequency, reminders, pop-up habit logs, and more. A habit log helps you check in on yourself about your progress and how you feel about it.

This habit log is designed for quick check-ins. Tap an emoji that represents how you feel about your progress, and add notes such as challenges and how you plan to overcome them.

This simple exercise acts as a mini-journal to help you take accountability and move forward in building this habit.

Another notable feature is the calendar view tab. This feature is great for visual users to get an overview of their tasks and adjust accordingly.

There are 5 different calendar view options. You can choose from day view, 3 day view, week view and month view.

The calendar timeline view helps users with overlapping task times. For example, if you have various tasks related to a business trip, you can easily visualize them in a timeline to avoid double-booking yourself.

If you’ve added recurring tasks, these will show up nicely in your calendar. This way you won’t forget anything. The best part is that you can skip the step of manually adding tasks to your calendar.

Even if you have multiple calendars from different email accounts, you can sync calendars from other platforms to seamlessly view events and add tasks accordingly. You can add calendars from Google, Outlook, Exchange, iCloud, CalDav, and URLs.

To fully set up your to-do list, TickTick lets you import third-party data from apps like Reminders and Todoist. TickTick also integrates with apps like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, IFTTT, Spark, and more.

Recurring tasks are tiresome when you have to write, check, and rewrite the same items. TickTick allows you to customize your tasks to repeat automatically to avoid this tedious repetition.

A good use for this feature is the weekly chore list. Set it up as a recurring list instead of the time-consuming method of creating a similar list every week.

For users who want more than a simple list, there are two additional display options. Users who prefer to work on their to-do list in columns or timeline can choose Kanban view or Timeline view.

Another great feature for visual organizers is the ability to attach photos to tasks. For example, if you plan a family photo shoot, you can paste your photo ideas directly into this task and share them with other family members.

The first hurdle in checking your to-do list is finding the time to organize it in the first place. The app has a lot of features, but it requires an initial investment to get the full benefits.

If you want to be more productive, take the time to learn how to use TickTick for your specific needs. Doing this will allow you to complete more tasks and be more productive.

• Prioritize your tasks
• Calendar, image attachment, Kanban, and timeline views for visual organizers
• eisenhower matrix
• Pomo timer with background sound
• Built-in habit tracker and check-in log
• 3rd party apps and integrations

• Takes a long time to set up
• Messy white noise option
• Very limited functionality when using the free version

TickTick can be useful even with the free version, but a paid subscription is best to make it worth spending time setting everything up. It’s a powerful app that helps you prioritize tasks, streamline your calendar, meet deadlines, and build good habits.

I recommend this for busy people who need to unload their tasks into the app and prioritize them without feeling overwhelmed. The more you use TickTick, the more you discover new ways to use features that meet your needs and help you build productive habits.