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Task App Alternatives

Checklist​

  • Recurring tasks
  • Notifications

Evaluated​

  • Obsidian Kanban — active stack (a board inside the notes vault, no separate task service)
  • Vikunja — RIP replaced by the Obsidian Kanban plugin (one less app and database to maintain)
  • ntfy — active stack (notifications)
  • Super Productivity — RIP unrecoverable sync issues on phone
  • Notion
  • Tasks.org
  • Todoist
  • TickTick

Compromise: Tasker​

Use Tasker to open the task app every Nth time you unlock your phone (e.g., every 7th unlock):

  1. Add var %LastTaskOpen
  2. Create Profile → Event → Display → Display Unlocked
  3. Add Action → Alert → Flash: "Launching app"
  4. Add Action → App → Shortcut (use the deeplink from your task app)
  5. Add if %LastTaskOpen ~ 0
  6. Add Action → Variables → Variable Add %LastTaskOpen
  7. Add Action → Variables → Variable Set %LastTaskOpen to 0 if %LastTaskOpen > 6