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Todoist

Cross-platform task manager with natural-language capture

Runs on every platform and syncs between them. Type a task with the date inside the sentence and it files itself. Projects, labels and saved filters do the organizing. Once a year it publishes a summary of everything you closed, which is either encouraging or unsettling depending on the number. The free tier covers most personal use.

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  • Stephen HackettDoes it

    Technology writer · 512 Pixels and Relay

    Pulled his own figures out of Todoist's annual report for 2020 and published them: 4,362 tasks closed that year, about eleven a day, with Tuesdays running far ahead of every other day. He had no idea why Tuesdays.

    Source: 512 Pixels: My 2020 Tasks, by the Numbers

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