The Research Behind the Features
Checked Off is built on productivity research - not productivity folklore. Each of the features below was designed to address something the research actually tells us about how attention, memory, and motivation work. These short pieces walk through the thinking behind each one.
Tasks Don't Belong to Days
No rollover. No "today" field. No date-based failure. Tasks belong to projects and become relevant to today only when you pull them in.
Routines as the Core Mechanism
A habit is a routine where the scaffolding has dissolved. A routine is a habit with the scaffolding still built in - and that's the design Checked Off is built on.
"Make Progress On" as a Task Type
Some work refuses to decompose into next actions in advance. The honest planning unit isn't an action - it's an allocation. Checked Off has a task type for it.
No Backfill, No Guilt Piling
Miss a day, or a week, on a recurring task. You get one instance to handle - the current one. The past doesn't return as a to-do list.