TickTick, Todoist, Reclaim — Finding the Right Task Manager

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every learning system needs somewhere tasks live. I went through three tools in fairly quick succession, and each one taught me something useful.

TickTick — The Comfortable Choice

I started with TickTick because I already knew it. Simple interface, good mobile app, doesn’t require an hour of setup to get started. For general life tasks it’s perfectly good.

The problem was the edges. TickTick doesn’t connect naturally to Obsidian. There’s no clean way to link a task in TickTick to a note in Obsidian, and no way to query TickTick tasks from inside the vault. Every time I finished a lesson and wanted to log it, I was switching apps, copying information, doing the same thing twice.

Building a DevOps DevOps Learning Command Center in Obsidian

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m 56, learning DevOps from scratch, and I have a problem with tools.

Not using them — I love tools. The problem is spending more time building the perfect learning environment than actually learning. It’s a trap I know well and fall into anyway.

This time I decided to be deliberate about it. If I was going to build a system, it would be one that genuinely serves the learning — not just looks good in screenshots.

Productivity on SQP Dev

TickTick, Todoist, Reclaim — Finding the Right Task Manager

TickTick — The Comfortable Choice

Building a DevOps DevOps Learning Command Center in Obsidian