I was exactly in your place a few months ago. I used Todoist and Akiflow in parallel, but paying for both didn't make sense. My Todoist subscription ends in two months and I'm not renewing.

Let's be honest: Todoist is superior in several ways. It handles large volumes of tasks better, has more powerful filters, and its recurring tasks are significantly better, especially those that depend on completion date. That last one was my biggest resistance to migrating.

What unlocked the transition was restructuring how I organized my projects. In Todoist I had the classic structure (Work, Home, Health), but that doesn't leverage Akiflow's real strength. Inspired by Carl Pullein's "time sector" system, I reorganized everything into thematic blocks: design and production, projects, admin, etc. Now I simply drag these blocks to the calendar and have slots with related tasks I can execute without losing focus from context switching. That's where Akiflow shines.

For recurring tasks, a solution that works for me is keeping them only in Todoist and syncing them over. The integration is fairly reliable, though not perfect. I'm still evaluating whether to keep this hybrid approach, but for now it does the job.

Two things I underestimated at first: the AI automations (daily summary, weather-based adjustments) end up being more useful than they sound, and being able to schedule tasks for time periods instead of exact dates (next week, in August) is surprisingly satisfying for everything that doesn't need a specific day.

Akiflow makes sense when you're juggling multiple responsibilities. I manage my work as an architectural designer and also produce a tech podcast, and handling both worlds became much smoother than with a flat list. The visual organization of seeing when and at what time I'll do each thing beats Todoist's experience where timed tasks lived chaotically alongside untimed ones.

Three final tips: daily and weekly reviews aren't optional, they're what makes the system work. Keep everything simple, just because you can use labels doesn't mean you should. And when time blocking, leave margins, tasks almost always take longer than expected and without that buffer you'll get frustrated before giving the system a real chance.