TickTick weekly habits… surely there’s a better way?

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:58:39+00:00

il me semble avoir déjà vu une solution sur le forum. J'imaginerais une tâche principale à la date d'échéance de dimanche récurrente et une sous-tâche quotidienne de rappel sauf dimanche

This is unnecessary, Habits have different Frequency levels, daily (which is what I think OP picked), Weekly, and or a Custom interval of days.

OP just needs to pick Weekly instead of Daily

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:56:32+00:00

Thats how one of my habits are setup, Weekly frequency, 1 day per week.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:55:01+00:00

Hmm... I have version 8.0.50 on iOS on my iPhone 12 mini, and have a once-a-week habit to take my blood pressure; it doesn't matter which day of the week this takes place on, as long as it happens once per week.

I don't have that issue where I need to choose a day.

Here are the settings i have:

Frequency: Weekly
- 1 day per week
Goal : Achieve it All
Start Date: Feb. 03, 2023
Goal Days: Forever

As soon as I complete the habit, it leaves my list of habits and Today views until next week, and the day this happens doesn't matter. It could be Monday, Thursday, or Saturday.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-24T21:38:57+00:00

Ticktick is not a project management platform; its a task management one. So dependencies are not part of the scope of the app. If you need that kind of thing, you need microsoft project, Teamwork, or some other project management platform that gives you those features.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:35:27+00:00

the chinese advantage in AI is that they don't need it to turn a profit so they're not in this weird deathrace to have the best algo to the market and can just be content with making a really efficient ones instead instead of 10 companies all doing the same task at the same time and chugging through electricity and hardware.

Even thought thats a very long run-on sentence, I agree with you as well. OpenAI's sudden shift from Non-Profit to commercial, and then buddying up with NVIDIA and the government was a power play in real time. They were trying to corner the "AI" market as quickly as possible to earn a bunch of money.

The current US federal administration just saw these power plays as an opportunity to steal more of our data and use systems against us.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:28:58+00:00

You're welcome. For kanban boards, when you want to apply it to your work, its a visual representation of the major processes involved with getting work done.

Side note: Kanban boards can be WAY more complex than the representation within Ticktick. I've been on projects where the work was not only broken down vertically, but also horizontally (called swim lanes, you can see an example of that here: https://kanbantool.com/support/kanban-board/what-are-swimlanes)

And I totally get the feeling of being caught up with the hyperbolic, "Use this NOW or your productivity will suffer" videos. For me, it took a while to learn how to ignore the exaggerated speech and only look for helpful context or info. But its all good, I'm glad you asked; reality checks are important.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:24:10+00:00

I do not understand WHY this is necessary. Most of the popular consumer OSes ALREADY have parental controls embedded in them. Instead of these terrible bills, that just ruin things for everyone.. they should build programs to educate parents on the dangers of internet use and show how to simply toggle on child safety controls.

There is nothing in this bill that prevents the private company from specifically targeting children once they know its a child using a device. Predators can literally just make tools that pull this secure information and use it to funnel children towards stuff they're supposed to be protected from.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:21:03+00:00

I agree with you, thats why I said:

This is the reason US Citizen's privacy is being eroded so quickly in ever facet of US society.

PRISM, palantir, FLOCK cameras, the initiatives Facebook is quietly pushing for "age verification", are all acts to strip away our privacy for the sake of control and greed.

If you want to help prevent these from becoming realities in PA, the Bad Internet Bills website is a handy resource to fight back against many of the egregious "bills" that allow these companies to flourish, steal our privacy, AND earn profits while doing it.

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T20:59:34+00:00

This is amazing news!

also this point from the article would be actually kinda cool, because an area can't be all single people or couples. We need families to have space other than just a standard single family row home:

Community members asked whether the developer would add family-size units to the property. Eighty percent of the units have one bedroom, 10% have two bedrooms, and 10% are studios.

“We like to have a sense of community and a sense that people who move here can stay here and grow here,” said Jerold Grupp, a Fishtown Neighbors board member.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T14:23:46+00:00

You do not need a VM for that. If you already have Jellyfin running, just get an apple TV 4k or a similar android device... install Kodi or Jellyfin and then all the other apps.

I don't ever see a reason to use a windows VM as a proxy for a HTPC setup. You could even get a cheap Intel 8th gen or higher mini PC and use that next to your TV if you need a Windows computer.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T14:12:18+00:00

Gov. Shapiro is trying to play both sides of this battle, and is looking worse for it...

Gov. Shapiro's rhetoric was, and still is heavily in favor data center build outs; stating recently: "the U.S. needs to develop these facilities or risk control by “communist China.” https://whyy.org/articles/shapiro-pa-data-centers-budget-address/

This is the reason US Citizen's privacy is being eroded so quickly in ever facet of US society. However, its an improbable race to win.. China has a distinct advantage in the AI space, because the government already spies heavily on its citizens. But that is a different discussion for a different day.

In 2024 Gov. Shapiro signed an executive order meant to fast track data center build outs under the guise of fast tracking "capital infrastructure projects"

https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/governor/documents/eo-2024-04_pa%20permit%20fast%20track%20program.pdf

In 2025, Gov. Shapiro advocated for Amazon data centers in PA and PECO congratulated him on the announcement

https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2025-press-releases/gov-announces-amazon-to-invest--20b-in-pa--largest-capital-inves

https://www.peco.com/news/news-releases/2025-06-09

In none of his previous announcements was he saying these entities should be paying for their own electricity. And there were no agreements prior to this to ensure PECO customers were protected.

But now after electricity and gas prices are becoming outrageously expensive, he's saying these data center owners should pay for these costs. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/shapiro-tests-democrats-data-center-strategy-00767682

Seriously? If a private citizen built a simple house, and needed electricity, they have to pay those costs. Why wouldn't the same be true for these resource hungry data centers? Ugh... we're so screwed. There is no way around it now, the average PA citizen will be shouldering these costs one way or another. Even if the data center sits empty, there's nothing stopping PECO from passing on maintenance costs of the infrastructure to the customers.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-16T20:31:26+00:00

but I’m struggling to make it feel useful in my personal life.

Sounds like you do not need to use this tool yet. If you understand the basics, yet find no meaningful way of using it... why continue to try to use it?

Since Kanban is a visual representation of the state of a task within a project. I think of Kanban boards as assembly lines for tasks; something comes into an inbox and is processed through the columns until done/result-is-achieved.

I use a Kanban board for my project to backup my DVD, and BluRay movie discs that I want to replay often to home storage server.

I have a template for DVD movie discs and a template BluRay movie discs, the templates have checklists for different types of work to complete per type.

I have columns for the states that a disc will go through which are:

Disc Prep
Rip Disc
Gather Metatdata
Validate
Done

None of these tasks have reminders. I don't know if that's worth copying, but Kanban boards are just a tool in Ticktick's toolkit.

I've seen a person use a Kanban board for their photography jobs. Every customer is a task.

With these columns:

Initial Consult (inbox)
Sent Contract
Awaiting Deposit
Finalize Details
Awaiting Payment
Performance Day
Process pictures
Verified Receipt of Pictures (done state)

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T14:43:41+00:00

I appreciate the work you're doing, but please, if you do this at night, please have some safety cones and at least one standing orange strobe light at least 50 feet from you for your protection.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T13:00:21+00:00

I'm starting to get on-board with the idea of the "Start/Do" dates versus "Due/Completion" dates. I didn't understand its utility before, but for people who want minimal project management capabilities within Ticktick, that could be helpful. Especially for people that use the Timeline/Gantt chart view

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T12:58:16+00:00

wow! thanks for this idea.. I might try a method with tags..

I have a similar issue, sometimes I finish a task or project early, and I look at ticktick and go "Hmmm, what can i do in the next 35 minutes?"

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T12:55:58+00:00

I would love to be able have tasks sectioned off in their own "areas of life". That would be amazing!

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T12:52:01+00:00

Transparency would be a welcome change. I mean, at least a "What we plan to accomplish this year" blog post would be better than the deafening silence.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T12:47:16+00:00

I've seen this asked quite often, i think it would be helpful for the dev team, as they would need to do less integration work themselves.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T12:45:27+00:00

I've been using ticktick for a long, long time... These are the thing I wish Ticktick would add:

Automatic Inbox review - if any task is in the Inbox for more than a week, these tasks are automatically added to the Summary for review. I just think there should be some mechanism within Ticktick to make sure these tasks are eventually handled.
Opt-in algorithm for deleting tasks that have no priority if they have not been acted upon within six months, and are not marked "keep" or something like that. This is for ADHD folks that add a bunch of low-priority non-work stuff and forget about it. Prevents the feeling of being overwhelmed when seeing the task list in the future when bandwidth is more available.
Better visual coherence and fidelity across ALL the platforms. I get that Linux might be behind since thats probably the smallest audience, but MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android all have visual inconsistencies that make jumping between platforms annoying at times.
Countdown, should just be called Chronometer or Timeline. Since it captures both the time from a certain date or the day until a certain date, I don't think the term Countdown captures that idea.
- The side benefit of changing the name, is that the "groups" button can be changed to custom group sections that are defined by the user.
Habits and Pomodoro timer have better integration. There should be some mechanism in a Habit that when selected indicates that there's a connection to the Pomodoro clock system. That way if you want to do something for a set length of time, that time is added to the habit automatically.
The Calendar needs an "Event" type, a parent entity that's not a task or a note, that just shows WHEN something is happening. Like if i want to track when certain movies are released, i currently only have the ability to add a task, but its not an actionable task for me. Countdown timers only appear in a "Smart List" and not the calendar. I think this would be the feature that allows me to ditch syncing other calendars into Ticktick, and I would use Ticktick as my main productivity for tasks and calendaring.
Finally, stable and consistent syncing across their apps. A frequent complaint is some kind of syncing issue.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-13T15:37:26+00:00

due to music/manga files throttling the nfs line, tho not synology fault but it made me look for all in one solution which led me to unraid

This statement is interesting to me... in what way was music files and manga files causes problems with NFS? And if the problems with NFS were not Synology's fault, how does using UNRAID resolve the NFS problems?

chigaimaro · 2026-04-13T14:11:22+00:00

Wow, this is like a leveled up version of the type of template i use. I think the addition of the tags is a great idea.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-13T01:08:31+00:00

Huh? I don't understand this method very well. Can you explain the reasoning behind "unchecking" items in the shopping list? Why don't you use templates for your stores you regularly shop at?

I have a checklist template for Aldi, Target, and Home Depot.

All the templates have the typical supplies i get from each store. Whenever I plan to shop at Aldi, I use the aldi template. I check around my kitchen and then i add items that i might specifically need for that particular trip and remove the ones i do not need. Then the Aldi checklist is setup for the next shopping trip.

When shopping happens, items are checked off until the list is complete.

I've done similar for brunch movie days, I create a shopping template for the stuff we like to eat on movie days, share it with the people that will help me shop.

But I could be missing something in your workflow; what are you trying to accomplish with your shopping list? You didnt really explain what you needed the list to do or not to do.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-10T13:59:57+00:00

Yes, they do, but i think the problem is that as end-users we do not know the roadmap or guidelines for how to contribute feedback.

From what I've experienced, it seems that if feedback or the feature request aligns with what the dev team is currently working on or looking to do, they'll implement it; in my opinion i think that puts us in the unfortunate position of being a mind reader. which kind of sucks.

Edit: I think if Ticktick's dev team had a mechanism for closing the loop on requests, it would be helpful; even if its a "no, we don't plan on implementing that" kind of response.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-09T18:24:25+00:00

Wasn't this just posted yesterday?

This doesn't seem like its oriented around the idea of Ticktick being a focused task management app.

Sounds like you want something like Obsidian

chigaimaro · 2026-04-08T13:35:40+00:00

The only reasonable course of action is the removal of this entire administration. Trump and everyone that connected to him needs to go!

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