TL;DR. I counted every task in Loggd. Across 21,655 one-off tasks from 1,375 people, 7,774 were completed, which is 35.9%. The shape matters more than the rate: 40.8% of completed tasks were finished the same day they were created, the median completed task took 1 day, and the ones that did not move quickly now sit a median of 56 days past their own planned date. A to-do list is not a reservoir that drains slowly. It is a queue that either moves today or turns into archaeology.
I build a habit and task tracker, which means I can do the thing most productivity writing cannot. I can open the database and count.
So I did, in August 2026. The raw population is 51,201 tasks across 1,375 users, with my demo account excluded.
Then I threw out more than half of it, and you should know why before you trust a single number below.
The 29,546 tasks I threw out
