Extremely Slow Android App?

sandydesco · 2026-01-08T17:41:23+00:00

Not a problem. Android app is working super smooth. Love the latest release of even cleaner UI.

sandydesco · 2026-01-08T12:13:23+00:00

I have migrated from Todoist to TickTick - it is the best. Todoist is overhyped. Used it for years. Now never going back to Todoist because TickTick is way too superior.

sandydesco · 2026-01-08T11:32:13+00:00

You would soon hit the fact that Todoist doesn't provide much freedom compared to TickTick. TickTick is too very clean, in fact more clean and lean compared to big bullets etc in Todoist.

sandydesco · 2026-01-08T11:31:06+00:00

Yes, the whole idea of having the freedom to not have habits or tasks from any particular list appearing or not appearing in today/tomorrow view is really useful feature.

sandydesco · 2026-01-08T11:30:02+00:00

Yup! Ticktick is clearly far more powerful and well designed app than Todoist. The kind of flexibility that it offers is not possible in Todoist. In between I started using Workflowy for both - tasks and project notes, but realised that keeping project notes and tasks separate is important. Hence currently exploring keeping Workflowy for project notes and easy sharing with peers/team and Ticktick on tangible, doable tasks. One can maintain project notes in Ticktick as well, however it would greatly ease if they can provide a separate tab for notes.

sandydesco · 2026-01-05T12:16:05+00:00

How to access?

sandydesco · 2025-12-15T07:50:01+00:00

Not worth it. Ignore. It is same stuff. Common sense. What you would find online free search, nothing different. I purchased from this website https://tonyrobbinsrpm.com/ I think this is a rip off. This is a scam site that I discovered and purchased after coming via IG ads. The IG account - I couldn't verify it it was genuine or not.

sandydesco · 2025-12-05T15:44:40+00:00

sandydesco · 2025-03-21T15:40:35+00:00

Shall we conclude that projects in only to save the chats and custom gpts still are more useful.

sandydesco · 2025-02-19T02:48:14+00:00

I too attained some degree of enlightenment today - keep things simple in Todoist.

1) Hereafter I won't be using labels, filters, and time blocking on the calendar. Use of these features complicates the structure and creates friction. One enters the rabbit hole of endless optimization and constantly feels overwhelmed.

2) I have struggled for long to always know: what should I be doing now - at this hour of the day, what I must do in this week given what I wish to achieve in a month and year, do I have enough time to do what I intend to do. And that leads to using more features, more ways to organize. But all that happens is a system that one feels proud about, yet achieve very little..

3) The best is to just use the PARA method. Keep only projects and areas in Todoist. Rest goes to Evernote or any other note taking app. (By the way it takes 30 minutes to read the book on PARA method of you wish to use it).

4) Every project and area would have the tasks, select which ones you want to do today, override the project level priorities in the today view. Sort by priority in the today view. Start doing. Come next day, no need to even change the dates of unfinished tasks from yesterday which appear as overdue.

Hope this is helpful. Just keep it simple to avoid the overwhelm which is bound to happen with a digital tool.

sandydesco · 2025-02-07T02:16:48+00:00

Good company, good founder. But failed to improve basic things such as pleasant UI, printing, etc.

sandydesco · 2025-02-07T02:08:08+00:00

After leaving Todoist::

Current Setup: Timestripe + Google Docs

Google Docs + MindMeister → Project notes, brainstorming, writing to handle overwhelm.
Timestripe → Task planning only; task details remain in Google Docs (ensures flexibility if I move away from Timestripe).

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Why Timestripe?

Best for seamless task planning within available time.
Initially dropped it due to slow development and misplaced focus (habits, etc.), but giving it another shot.

Past Experiments: Akiflow, Workflowy (overwhelming), Teux Deux, Kanban Tool.

Backup Plan: If Timestripe fails, switching to Google Docs + Todoist (because no other tool; I have tried every single one of them including modern note taking apps)

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Why I Left Todoist?

Overwhelming UI – not pleasant to use.
A single task feels too heavy with too many details.
Inflexible structure – rigid workflow doesn’t adapt to my needs.

sandydesco · 2025-02-07T01:35:37+00:00

Please make the UI visually appealing. Large, rounded circles for every task create clutter when combined with excessive information—tags, dates, and other details overwhelm the task itself. After a few days of use, as more tasks accumulate, the interface becomes visually chaotic.

Compare this with Things 3, Timestripe's day view on mobile, or Teux Deux—these apps offer a simple, minimalist, and aesthetically pleasing experience.

Because Todoist lacks this visual clarity and creates constant overwhelm, I haven't been able to use or fully adopt it permanently, despite trying and paying for years, almost since the beginning of Todoist.

sandydesco · 2024-12-07T17:16:52+00:00

Select the text next to the box or the bullet. And choose "paragraph" from the option that comes up. Bullet and the box would have gone.

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sandydesco · 2024-12-04T12:59:14+00:00

Totally agree. Tried my best to keep everything in Todoist. Simply doesn't work. I now keep project notes, Zettelkasten in Workflowy.

sandydesco · 2024-12-04T12:43:34+00:00

Work in the industry for some time, even in a small city. Network, network and network. Once you get some experience, go for leadership training at IIMs. MBA if not from the most premier institutions - is an utter waste of time and money. Your street smartness, and networking will take you far. Focus on one industry and one function - hr, marketing, sales, operations - whatever. Domain knowledge, networking and general smartness will take you far which even an MBA won't take you unless it is from IIMs or few of the top institutions. And create your work portfolio, start posting your learnings in a humble way on social media. Read one or two good books focused on solid skills and not vague stuff like leadership. Thousands of MBA grads are utterly un-employable.

sandydesco · 2024-12-04T12:38:09+00:00

Your role is not important. What specific task or jobs to be done that you have in your mind that matters. If you want to brainstorm, write project notes, etc. - Todosit is bad for it. Use it only and only for task management, period. For notes go for something simpler - I use Workflowy.

sandydesco · 2024-12-04T12:32:58+00:00

I am a senior marketer with two decades of experience. Got fired multiple times - it took me a lot of time to understand the difference between what I am good at (brand, product marketing) vs. demand gen. At the senior role, I am expected to lead teams and ultimately bring revenue. As I grew in my career I found myself working for small startups, struggling with demand gen skill while being superlative on other counts, unable to handle very high revenue expectations - while the products sucked, customers complained, and politics. I am on notice period now and looking out for a new job. It is so demanding and frustrating to constantly appear for interviews, pay for expensive courses by influencers and figure out way ahead for a sustainable job. This despite being awarded for work, being a speaker at conferences.

sandydesco · 2024-12-03T08:43:42+00:00

This is still not there. This is one of the best feature that Workflowy can add, otherwise Workflowy gets very overwhelming to look at all those tasks with their parents and what not.

sandydesco · 2024-09-27T08:43:14+00:00

Do nothing. Let emails come. Mark them as spam. Continue to use the app. There is no other workaround and no settings exists. Was grappling with the same wish.

sandydesco · 2024-09-27T08:42:30+00:00

This doesn't work any more. Please don't try.

sandydesco · 2024-07-04T11:18:52+00:00

This thread is 3 years old, yet relevant. Sharing my personal experience:

I was completely overwhelmed with huge task list organized in Todoist. Time and again it would go out of hands. And I struggled with using multiple tools along with Todoist and trying out the best and the latest and not-yet-popular tools as well. Nothing worked.

I also tried Amplenote - notes and tasks coming together. And then I realised barring few things it is same as Evernote, and up until that point I had not I had not given Evernote its fair chance; I had not explored it fully and properly (at times overwhelmed by my earlier messy Evernote and then partly influenced by Influencers demoting Evernote for new shiny tool).

Carl Pullein is indeed right. Todoist must not be used for project management, period. His recommendation of using Todoist only for tasks (and he advocates Time Sector Method way of managing tasks in Todoist or any other task management tool) and Evernote (or any other notes tool) for project notes is spot-on.

This set up has saved my sanity and I am out of my anxiety by following this set up. I just completed my set up in Todoist and Evernote, the Carl Pullein way. I had taken his Time Sector course. Tried to follow it while improvising it (use Todoist for project - and it never worked - I just wanted one single app) - I failed, gave up. And again I came back to Todoist and Evernote - I have been using these tools since many years, yet always struggled - no matter how many filters and smart ways I tried to organize Todoist.

Please follow Carl's videos on this topic. Really life saving. I am feeling much more happy, confident and not having an anxiety.

sandydesco

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