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>3. Sense of accomplishment is important but rare in the digital world. When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it. That’s it, no reward, n
by JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
>3. Sense of accomplishment is important but rare in the digital world. When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it. That’s it, no reward, no sense of accomplishment (unless you make your own). I think that’s why some people like Trello or pen-and-paper TODO list: when you get something done, you can see a card moved or a text crossed out. An artifact that proves there was a task here, and now it’s done. Now you are one step closer to your goal.
This one is so good and true.
- Uehreka 5y agoI love looking at the Done column of my Trello board and then (yes I’m that terrible person) showing it off to people.
- edoceo 5y agoAsana used (c2013) to have a unicorn that would fly by after N tasks marked done - didn't work on Linux, only saw it on Mac.
- chrisweekly 5y ago[from TFA, quoted above] "When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it." Those are some big assumptions and sweeping generalizations apparently made by the author; for example, my system leverages Roam Research. In Roam, a key bit of UX is to type cmd+enter to prefix any block element (Roam's atomic unit, renderered as an HTML `<li>` list item) with a TODO checkbox, or to toggle its presence and state (TODO|DONE|nil). "DONE" items persist in the UI wherever you created them. I take it further than leaving signs of my progress around -- I tag the more significant ones with `#FTW` ("for the win") to ensure I give myself credit and opportunity to celebrate. When I do my weekly review / planning sessions, the "DONE" items, and the wins, play a role.
- nl 5y agoFrom point (1) in the post: > The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making all this decisions has a cost.
- chrisweekly 5y agoI don't see how that's relevant; my comment was about the OP's assertion that completed TODOs disappear from view. In Roam, when toggling an item from TODO->DONE, the "DONE" items persist in the UI wherever you created them. (No extra decisions involved.)
- chrisweekly 5y agoSame holds true for Obsidian, too -- marking checklist items done styles them with strikethrough, but they remain visible.
- ummonk 5y agoI find myself using Google docs for todo lists for this reason. I can strikethrough items as I complete them and behold the ever growing list of struck through items.
- lysium 5y agoOne of the features I love about the Things app: it keeps the checked todo item until the next day.
- Doches 5y agoThis is why I keep a done list, not a todo list! I even made a dedicated app to do so; check it out: https://donel.ist https://donel.ist