Your completed tasks become a book of progress — A little twist on ToDoLists

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I’m building a to-do app with a twist: completed tasks are never deleted.

Instead, they stay on the page as a record of your effort and growth.

Think of it as writing a book — every tasks completed is one section you wrote.

This idea originated from the moment I felt anxious. It seemed I spent a lot of time working, but when I stopped, I could hardly remember the tasks I'd done or the great progress I'd made, even though I suffered back then.

I want to record those progresses, and I want to see my growth like I am writing a book.
And I can always look back and see exactly what it took to get here.


I don't want to be a robot that checks off tasks.
I'm a human and I want to see my growth directly. And seeing that record helps lift my spirit again.
It also helps me see where I stumbled and where I succeeded during a long-term project, like writing an essay.
And after a week, a month, or a year of hard work, flipping through that book will be incredibly satisfying. It should be stunning.

So I called this app "Like A Book," referring to the idea of running your life and work the way you write a book.

I’m planning to launch it in 1 week. Would love your thoughts:

1. Do you actually care about seeing completed tasks?

2. Would this help with end-of-week/month/year/project reflection?
3. What's the most frustrating thing about your current to-do app?
4. Do you ever feel like you accomplished nothing when looking back? How do you deal with that?

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1. Yes, strongly. Losing the record of what got done is a big reason task apps feel unrewarding.

2. It helps a lot with reflection, especially on slow multi-week projects.

3. Most frustrating: apps that treat "done" as "delete." The moment a task disappears, so does the evidence I did anything.

4. Constantly. A day full of small completed things but no completed "big things" can feel like zero progress even when it wasn't.

I ended up building something in this space (Plainlist), with a smaller version of what you're describing: finished goals move to an Achievements section instead of vanishing. Your "book" framing is a nicer mental model than what I built though.