Why I Stopped Using Todoist and Ticktick, and What I Use Now

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[@2musiclover534]

I wish you provided info on: (1) What do you not get with free version and what you get with paid. (Or did I miss it?) (2) What is the cost (3) What is the roadmap on their cost increases planned. I'd hate to switch due to cost once I master something. But my wife and I are also on a budget. Thanks. Liked.

[@husaammaudarbocus5443]

I've really enjoyed using Amplenote recently and hope it sticks. Key benefits from my perspective are low friction & speed, combines task mgmt & note taking in an optimal way, and offers just enough base functionality for me to focus on writing and getting organised (i.e. I am not forever tweaking it like I did with Obsidian)

[@frederickmichaud6783]

I really like your videos, always great concise content. I feel like the balance between the background music track and your voice is better these days. Great job! I think I’m going to register for your course on keep productive. Do you use exclusively amplenote for tasks and information tracking, or is PKM better off in logseq or obsidian?

[@thinhle5765]

Really thanks for your sharing! I have skimmed through lots of websites but could not find this Amplenote until your video!

[@ShuOmi_Official]

Glad I could help!!

[@kohelet910]

Thank you so much! One note about todoist, not many people know that todoist have an integration feature to sync in both way a todo project with a google calendar

[@iVue]

I know you are heavily promoting amplenotes everywhere possible and I love seeing the use cases you’re producing. the biggest reason I could not keep app more than 10 minutes on my phone is it’s interface, which is overly complicated and not iOS native because the app looks like made from the website but functionality wise they’re definitely good.

[@billharding1254]

Hey iVue, I'm one of the Amplenote devs, thanks for your feedback 👋 Maybe of interest to you re: "overly complicated" interface, the latest version of Amplenote mobile (submitted to app store today) now includes a set of big icons that make it much easier to switch between the four modes (in Shu's video, it takes the extra click to open the left bar, but we decided that was too annoying so we fixed it). Not quite sure what you mean the app is "not iOS native," most of the components in the iPhone/iPad apps are native Apple components, with the exception of inside of the text editor, which is indeed a webview. Anyway, thanks for giving us a try, we want to keep improving the onboarding experience to feel approachable 🙂

[@noahm2259]

Agree it’s my experience too

[@OttoBerger]

Look kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHXXmWauqJuEfKM

[@botistelockhart5078]

@@billharding1254 I think what he means is that the app does not support iOS calendar support. If your entire life is in the iCal or Apple eco system then the calendar is pretty much pointless. No Reminders sync meaning you can’t take advantage of the Siri live commands through the phone or Apple Watch. Most of these could be done with both Todoist and Things 3. Again great app, it’s just not Apple ecosystem friendly

[@Mentalcheez]

@@billharding1254 from watching the video, one of the few things that stood out as being necessarily complicated was the shortcuts. For instance, why do I need to type [[@ to bring up a tag? Integrating some form of AI would be ideal, but at least until then, Amplenote could create more intuitive shortcuts.

[@tspmcfarlane]

Really good video - gave me lots to think about. Your presentation style is very concise and informative. Subscribed!

Hi! Thanks for your videos! I'm trying to pick some task management and notes tools along with general organizational methods (like GDT). I don't fully understand how you combine Logseq and Amplenote. How do you decide which app to place one note in? Do you copy some notes in both apps? Or do you use Amplenote strictly for task managements and Logseq for all the other notes? I read in one comment that with Amplenote it is possible to take notes, eg. during meetings, and write there the tasks, which I guess it would be useful. However, then I wouldn't use Logseq for meetings and planning?

[@SamiPaju]

I’ve been flirting with Amplenote intermittently for the past two years. Recently started using it again more seriously, trying to create structures to fit my workflow and so on. For me having tasks ‘live’ where more information about them is located is really useful (e.g. the task itself is in a meeting note with more information and context). It definitely requires a bit of changing your mindset though. Thinks like using notes as tags (your [[@ …]] example) or just getting used to having different view modes in terms of Jots, Notes, and Tasks takes time getting used to. It’s definitely not as smooth a starting experience as with e.g. Todoist or Evernote. The way I use Amplenote now is for all the kinds of notes, tasks, ideas etc. that are meant to be somewhat fleeting in nature. Whereas I use Notion on the side for more heavy-duty project management stuff, and storing information in an organised way for long-term use. I also use Obsidian for my own take of Zettelkasten-type research notes (again, purpose is long-term use)…

[@SamiPaju]

What I am still wondering about, though, is how well Amplenote would really fit as the only task manager. Right now my thinking is that Amplenote would be home for those types of tasks that take a bit more time to do. And then I’d use either Todoist or Apple Reminders or something else for those quicker things like “buy milk from the grocery” etc. I’ve noticed that despite having a good routine for daily planning, I constantly overestimate how much I can actually get done. I’ve been using Todoist. My hope is that with Amplenote and using the calendar feature I can actually be a little bit more realistic and thus also a bit more forgiving to myself. Oh, and about that learning curve, having to choose which notes/tasks to add to Task Calendars, how Hiding tasks works (and how to Unhide them!)… All of that gets a little nerdy for your average note-taker, I think. I for one have been reading the documentation (which luckily is very well done) on Amplenote’s site on multiple occasions :D

[@billharding1254]

@@SamiPaju This is great feedback and suggests some simplifications we could make to improve, thank you! 🙏 Feel free to email bill@ the app's name if you have more good ideas as u use it.

[@SamiPaju]

@@billharding1254 I'll send you more extensive notes after a few more weeks of using it.

[@RJBeck1218]

Nice review, Shu! Amplenote needs more love.

[@Alexander-Mercouris]

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[@itsgivingkyle]

I'm surprised you haven't talked about the graph (although it is still very limited). It really helps me stay motivated to keep up habits. I haven't found a better task app, and I hope they build our their features more!

[@benf101]

I don't think that existed when this video came out.

[@itsgivingkyle]

@@benf101 it definitely did but it was quite hidden

[@basaksungur9068]

Can it be used for habit tracking? (For example if I want to do a plank everyday?) And can it sync with Google calendar? Because I usually update my to-do list on my watch with Google assistant.

[@KnowledgeSeeker26]

Please time stamp your videos.

[@GT-tj1qg]

​​@@Alexander-MercourisI can't believe your mom didn't tell me about that amazing business you've got there. What a hoe. Well thanks for looking out for me, man

[@framed9240]

@@AbatuBlouuits not about attentionspan. i dont wanna listen to wasted information

[@feritkardal]

​@@AbatuBlouustop being toxic wtf??? They just want save their time as they can. And this is most normal thing in the world. If you like the wasting time, go ahead who cares. But you cant pass your sh1t on to anyone else.

[@CodexBS]

@@AbatuBlouuso true

[@sunnafae.1886]

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[@RedMambaYard]

Great video, thanks a lot! Where did you get that wonderful wooden phone holder you show at 1'10'' ???

[@kirstencook113]

So helpful. Thanks. I'm going to try it. ❤

[@julienheringphd]

Thanks, great video! What's your point of view between Amplenote and Evernote, which have also todo functions?

[@Taskade]

Hope to see Taskade one day! :)

[@bigskyez7738]

Good review...Still needs a way to link e-mails in as todo's. It also needs native PC / Mac OS apps before I'll use it.

[@botistelockhart5078]

No ical support is a major problem for Amplenote that neither Todiost or ticktick. It’s really the only reason why I can’t use it,

[@AshiqNazir]

Excellent video. I have tried setting up In-line tags, like you have, but they do not show up on the left hand side of the screen as yours do. Is there any particular way you have that setup?

[@Amplenote]

Would gladly look into this for you! Can you please clarify which moment in the video you are referring to?

[@ToriZealot]

Thanks guys, meanwhile I figured this out. However, why not enabling the user to type in individual time when clicking at rhe duration clock?

[@LuckyPandaX]

Thanks for the great review. I find ticktick to be faster for entering todos. Amplenote can do very similar things but there is no snooze, swipe gestures, worse nat language processing, and it doesn't seem to notify properly. Also everything takes so many taps to get to in Amplenote. Still I'm trying to make it work. Thanks.

[@Amplenote]

Interesting food for thought! A few comments: 1. Language processing for dates has recently gone live for the mobile apps. It works in the Quick Task Bar at the bottom of the screen too! 2. Also recently we've released a floating navigation bar that enables one-tap switching between the 4 modes! 3. If you get the time, please let us know how we might be able to improve the speed of capturing tasks (especially compared to TickTick)?🙏 It's one of the most important features we want to get right on mobile.

[@LuckyPandaX]

@@Amplenote Hi good to see your response. On mobile just minimizing number of taps to do any task helps a lot. To enter a todo on Android, you can integrate w/ Google Assistant (in settings allow Amplenote to be the default app) and Wear OS. You can add an entry to the menu that pops up when you tap and hold the app in homescreen. Since it's mobile, once the app is open, have a voice to task (nat process for time/date reminder for that task). There's a bug when I enter a task w/ date, I tap the date and it requires two more taps to actually add it, and the it disappears instantly (due to low importance?). That's for adding a task. For finding the task, it should be one to two taps away to get to, for example your grocery list, instead of going thru multiple menus and try to do a filter. Tasks screen could be sorted by date, grouped by note/importance, just showing the first two lines of the note. Eg, I modified grocery list recently and it should be near top but not take up the whole screen. Swipe on the task to reveal choice of snooze custom time or complete or strike thru. Also I don't think the tasks w/ due date show notification at all on Android. There could also be custom snoozing perior on the notification. Thanks for reading a long wish list.

[@deveshsaraf8]

exactly what i was oooking for 👍

[@dj_timoy]

Do you create your content in Amplenote or Logseq? I know you can use both for planning Shotlists and things, but which do you actually use? I've been trying to create a "Planning & Thinking space" but I can't seem to figure out where to use Obsidian or Logseq instead of Amplenote...

[@ShuOmi_Official]

Logseq for content creation :) Amplenote is my planner and todo list

[@dj_timoy]

@@ShuOmi_Official Awesome, thanks 😁 Another question, What if you make ideas in Amplenote, how do you bring them in to Logseq? Do you just copy them over? I feel like I'm overthinking this process.. lol but I don't want to break all my links

[@cjart6562]

How to make sure that a completed subtask remains in the list with specific subtasks, and does not shift down to the general list of completed tasks?

[@none_okey]

Tnx lot abt this video ❤I wanna just ask u of i can get nofications to remind me abt task in todoist for free ?

[@hamo2044]

how could i change the font on desktop version?

[@noeldelarosavlogs]

Todoist projects were unlimited at first. Thankful they didn’t delete my projects to 5. …Todoist is also half the annual price of this app now-however, judging from your video, Amplenote does seem to be more capable. However, Todoist has a kanban board that I like to use on desktop.

[@DummyFace123]

The problem with amplenote is it costs more than a personal microsoft office 365 account, so its really hard to justify

[@francescaleoni7443]

7:17 is exactly what I'm trying to get my calendar to look like! How did you do it? I can't seem to figure it out 🙁 thank you 😊

[@Amplenote]

This is a screenshot of a planned feature that should be coming soon to Amplenote! Stay tuned for that.

[@UbangAudi]

The most ticked app for all my needs, but I need kanban, gantt and graph view for note taking. Yet, I still recommend this app for anyone starting digital note taking + personal project management to get things done. And I always follow its updates once a month hoping they fulfil my kanban/gantt/graph needs.

[@nelsonnotforyou7632]

The ticktick evaluation are too bad ! I don't found backup option to free option: yes, (I'm testing it....that's what the trial version is for) and second BAD, did they put tasks and notes on the same level? Since when did notes become a tasks to have a limit? they are notes only! and And I still found out that there is a ticktick limit for task ???? since when does software get tired?

[@HiddenExp]

Hi Shu! In your opinion, can't Tana replace Amplenote?

[@SamiPaju]

I know you didn’t ask my opinion, but I think Tana is now where Amplenote was 2-3 years ago. It’ll take time for them to move out of private beta, get working mobile apps done etc. It might become a really good option but it will take time, and only time will tell.

[@rinleeds]

Thanks for a great video. However, you didnt do much of a comparison with ticktick (like you did with todoist). The only thing was that amplenote is free and ticktick is not. But can amplenote do EVEYRTHING you can do in tick tick? Thanks, keep up the good work.

[@klint9607]

I don't have the table option on my android or iPad. Is that a new update or specific plugin?

[@matheusfelipe1136]

Tables is a new feature, only available for the users in the Founders level. It will be available for every user around the end of November, they said.

[@klint9607]

@@matheusfelipe1136 Good to know, thank you :)

[@hackmedia7755]

can you do subtasking? I want a view with tasks with subtasks like a taxonomy view.

[@AlmightyHeretic]

You've talked me into trying it. I'm currently a Todoist user and my spouse wants to get on board with task management. Natural language, collaboration, and notifications are all we really need at this point. $48/yr x 2 seems like robbery for our use case.

[@PropaneFitness]

A full productivity system for $48/year feels like robbery?

[@mamascrafts13]

About 98 dollars if you’re paying for 2 people… that is quite a lot of money.

[@PropaneFitness]

​@@mamascrafts13How are you writing your comment? On a phone or laptop?

[@mamascrafts13]

@@PropaneFitness I’m using my phone at the moment. Is there a reason you asked?

[@user-eq6de6mi1p]

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[@LeandroSalerno]

amplenote is great, except that on Android the text is very small! It would be ideal to have it bigger

[@phantazzor]

thanks

[@livb4139]

do you still use it

[@TiffanyNg100]

Too lazy. I use google calendar for daily task and Google Sheet for 10 year plan! I’m too lazy to switch to different system. Tho I. Love the Natural language processor. It’s not that big deal for my to switch entire system. Because I don’t want to downlod another app on iPhone or on my iPad. And redo all the events to different calendar is the pain in the a**. It just doesn’t work that well. But thanks for sharing! I love to see what our thrrr

[@kevinhar5307]

Seem it likes google Tasks and Google calendar can use the same function.

[@mayankk2800]

not good tried for 5 mins and keep crashing on mac. Will stick to Obsidian

[@Matthew8473]

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[@ryansetiawansaputra4007]

I switched back to ToDoist+Notion for my task management tool after using Amplenote for more than a month (of course I know Amplenote from your video). My problem w/ Amplenote is that the web app so clunky, no swipe or drag and drop feature. It becomes complicated when you use it as task management + note taking app (which how I used it, and I believe how this app is intended). I'm gonna miss the task scoring tho.

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[@garimapachauri6558]

please make a video in hindi language also

[@IAmDanMillen]

Amplenote's lack of filing ability keeps it from being a repository of info beyond things you are working on right now. I wouldn't trust it vs Evernote for finding something from a year ago because I have no idea where it would be. Sure tagging is cool but then you wind up with 500 tags cluttering up your UI. Also good luck with subtasks and repeatable templated workflows, kanban, dependencies and robust notifications. Amplenote starts to really break down when your projects are more complex than "do this on Tuesday" I do wish todoist had a calendar and more robust notes but no app has it all.

[@darren537]

Is there an obsidian plugin

[@sigridopps3049]

I liked it at first glance but really the first steps are highly unintuitive. And you have some real issues. Hiding tasks when scheduled is super counterproductive and then i can not even remove the 'hidden' attribute. That is extremely annoying. Also i wanted to filter by tags but that is not possible. Actually what is called filter is just a search for single items which makes it precisely not a filter. The priority method is weird, it would be okay if there was an alternative but there isn't (also makeshift prioritizing of my own using tags didn't work). I spent a couple of hours on trying and i really wanted to like it, but i gave it up.

[@DanteMishima]

I've been using Taskito for the longest... It helps me focus on a day

[@k_and]

I've tried to adapt Amplenote to my needs a few times after watching your videos, but really can't put up with its androidish design.

[@darren537]

Can you describe what Androidish design implies?

[@Ale-kc9pq]

ad or nah?

[@JanEdelmann]

UH. €6 to $20 a month.

[@kishanbsh]

Am i the only one using google sheets as a todo list? 😀

[@samueltremblay275]

This app is seriously not ready to be use as a daily task manager with android.

[@AmitGangania]

Is Ticktick a Chineese company? how i assure that my data is not shared witj chiese govx

[@pascalcremer4590]

I‘ve recently discovered your channel and also tried out Amplenote, since you recommended it. Maybe it’s just me but I‘ve found the experience on iOS so poor that I‘ll deleted it only a few hours later. I get why companies focus on web based hybrid apps, but in the productivity category it’s a no go for me, because the overall system integration is so poor and the performance is super sluggish. I get the appeal of the app, but in its current state, it’s not for me.

[@dfalfan]

amplenote is good... in theory

[@sathx24]

Journalit ,does it and more than it..

[@YorkyPoo_UAV]

Do people really put "take out trash" on a to-do list or do they just keep smashing it down until their wife takes it out?

[@ZenOfKursat]

I prefer ticktick

[@ospinalaw]

I like your video but that's literally another app to do the same thing you do in Todoist, and since no everyone is limited to the Apple ecosystem there's no reason to change.

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[@theneophytejournal]

bruh i just need to send my team a to do list every morning

[@iambetter9322]

notion >>>

[@ry.0]

Tick tick wins! XD

[@bradandre5437]

Trying figure out why the app service cost so much with better alternatives out for free and paid with better prices. This app feels like a cash grab

[@user-zz5je1ry1o]

Seriously? It’s so overly complicated. Not fit for humans. Which is why no one uses it. Gosh….the mistakes are so obvious to anyone who isn’t a dev. Did they consider asking a user? Aka human? My head hurts just watching this video

[@ricr8987]

WHAT A WEIRD VIDEO...

[@neuralgarden]

?

[@Jacktherippler1]

websurface is a fucking disaster!!! bullshit, not intuitive

[@BrajBliss]

no

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[@linhtuan1701]

No No, Amplenote has ugly design 😫😫

[@mahabooblinux]

i didnt liked the amplenote

[@jonbikaku6133]

Maybe this is for pro users cause I just tried it and it seems like a lot. Ticktick is much simpler and has the basics I need, so might stick with that for now!

[@Dierre]

There is no free version of ample not just a free trial. It's not better than tick-tock or todoist it's almost the same thing.

[@AndresArosemena]

I have never used amplenote but just opening their website and going to the "plans" section I see there is a "Free Forever" option.

[@dominikbaricak9589]

TickTick is far better...

[@tristen_grant]

"Better" depends on each person.

[@IAmSam_TheMan]

i want more from @Amplenote. i like it but there just isnt much online about it. We need more. i think it's better than Evernote and Notion.

[@justnaturalcake1]

You should definitely give Sorted3 a try the free version is pretty good and premium is just a one time payment of 15-18 dollars

[@Dark_Lobster]

Its Apple only...