Most task apps make completed tasks disappear.
You tick something off and it's gone: cleared from the list, removed from the view, tidied away. The logic is that done means done, and done things shouldn't clutter the space where undone things live.
It's a reasonable idea. It's also wrong. The instinct to tidy away what's finished is close cousin to the instinct that lets things fall through the cracks on the way in: both treat the record as clutter instead of evidence.
What disappearing tasks take with them
When a completed task vanishes from your schedule, it takes something useful with it: the record of what you actually did and when you did it.
Your day in Schedule view isn't just a plan — it's a log. The tasks you complete are evidence that the plan worked, that you moved things forward, that the day wasn't just meetings and interruptions. Crossing something out and leaving it there is different from making it disappear. One shows progress. The other just shows what's left.
There's also a practical angle. If someone asks what you got done this afternoon, or you're trying to remember whether you actioned something before a call, the schedule shouldn't require you to dig through a completed tasks archive. It should just still be there, crossed out, in the slot where it happened.
The crossed-out task
In ka-do's Schedule view, completing a task crosses it out and leaves it in place. The day stays intact. You can see what was planned, what got done, and what's still outstanding — all in one view, without switching tabs or filtering anything.
It's a small thing. It changes how the end of the day feels.
A schedule full of crossed-out tasks isn't clutter. It's a record of a productive day. Keep that record going day to day and it becomes exactly the boring, honest tally a done list is supposed to be.
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