The all-in-one organising app TickTick takes a different approach to to-dos: “We’ve found that people don’t just want a task manager,” says founder Damon Woo. “They want to manage everything in their lives.”

Here are five ways TickTick can help you make it happen, from new ways of viewing your tasks to tools for creating healthy habits.

Start at the Inbox. When adding a task, give it a due date and time by typing it in natural language (“Call Dad next Friday at 6 pm”). Create additional lists for projects or topic areas.

Control-click any task for a slew of organisation options, including pinning a task to the top of the current list, moving it to another list or converting it to a note. If you know you can’t get to an item, choose “Won’t Do” to move it to “Completed and Won’t Do” rather than letting it stress you out as an incomplete task.

Pro tip: If you prefer having finished tasks vanish from your life forever (and who could blame you?), tap the three dots on the top right of the Inbox and choose “Hide Completed.”

TickTick offers a wealth of ways to keep your to-dos in line, but few are as handy as the Eisenhower Matrix view. After enabling the feature (in Settings > Functions), a click on the sidebar’s Eisenhower Matrix button shows a handy four-quadrant layout that groups your tasks by priority: most urgent in the top left quadrant, least urgent in the bottom right.

Pro tip: The Eisenhower Matrix has preset rules on how to categorise your tasks, but you can adjust each quadrant’s criteria by tapping the three dots at the top of the quadrant and choosing Edit.

TickTick syncs with your local calendars so you can see your appointments, events and to-dos all in one place. Want to create a task due on a particular date? Just click on that date in the calendar. Or switch to Day or Week view to click a specific time for a new task.

Life-hack experts swear by the Pomodoro Technique, a time-management system in which you work for 25 minutes then break for a stretch or nice walk. TickTick’s Pomo Timer feature (enabled in Settings > Function > Focus) is made for this. Control-click any task and choose Start Focus > Start Pomo, then get down to business; your remaining task time is displayed in the menu bar.

Pro tip: A Pomodoro session doesn’t have to be for a single task; you can combine multiple tasks under one timer. Simply select multiple tasks in a list, then Control-click one of them and choose Merge. You can now start a Pomo timer for the task group.

TickTick can help build positive habits – reading every night, checking in with a friend, practicing the ukulele – by offering reminders and breaking down even the most ambitious list into easy-to-parse sections.

Just switch to Habit view (enabled in Settings > Functions), then tap the plus sign button to create a new habit. Give your habit a name and choose your frequency goal and other details. Each time you check off the habit, TickTick can optionally prompt you to add notes and an emoji rating.