[JohnJamesRambo]

>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.

[ummonk]

I 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.

[Uehreka]

I love looking at the Done column of my Trello board and then (yes I’m that terrible person) showing it off to people.

[chrisweekly]

[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]

From point (1) in the post:

> The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making all this decisions has a cost.

[chrisweekly]

I 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]

Same holds true for Obsidian, too -- marking checklist items done styles them with strikethrough, but they remain visible.

[Doches]

This 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

[edoceo]

Asana 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.

[lysium]

One of the features I love about the Things app: it keeps the checked todo item until the next day.