Only 36% of To-Do Tasks Get Done, and Most Are Finished Within a Day

An analysis of 21,655 one-off tasks logged by 1,375 users on the habit-tracking app Loggd found that just 35.9% of tasks were completed. The study, conducted in August 2026 by the app's developer, excluded auto-generated recurring tasks to focus only on items people deliberately wrote down. Of completed tasks, 40.8% were finished on the same day they were created, and the median completion time was just one day. In contrast, overdue open tasks had a median age of 56 days past their planned date, with the top 10% sitting more than four months overdue. The data suggests that to-do lists function less as long-term storage and more as short-lived queues — tasks either get done quickly or are rarely done at all.