If you’re moving to Griply from another productivity tool, it can feel like starting fresh. The good news: Griply combines task management, goal planning, and habit tracking in one system. That means you can replace multiple tools with a single workflow.

Below, you’ll find side-by-side comparisons to help you translate your existing setup into Griply’s structure, plus transition tips.

Switching from Todoist

Todoist handles projects and tasks well, but it has no goal or life-area layer above them. Here's how the two line up:

Transition tips:

• Your projects, tasks, and recurring tasks come straight across, Griply has all three.

• Then add what Todoist doesn't have: group them under Life areas, and set your goals, each with a success metric, for the outcomes you're working toward. Clear, measurable goals are what let you decide which projects deserve your focus and tell whether the work is actually paying off.

• Recreate your Labels as Tags.

• We recommend starting fresh rather than importing everything - this is a good chance to declutter.

Switching from Things 3

Things 3 is a beautifully simple task manager, but it stops at areas, projects, and tasks, with no goal layer or habit tracking. Here's how the two line up:

Transition tips:

• Your Areas become Life areas, and your Projects and tasks come straight across.

• Then add what Things doesn't have: set your goals, each with a success metric, so you can see which projects deserve your focus and whether the work is paying off.

• Move your recurring routines into Griply's built-in habit tracker. Small actions done consistently are what compound into real results, and linking a habit to a goal shows you it's genuinely driving that goal forward.

• We recommend starting fresh rather than importing everything - this is a good chance to declutter.

Switching from TickTick

TickTick is a capable all-rounder, with lists, tags, and even a habit tracker, but it has no goal or life-area layer above the work. Here's how the two line up:

Transition tips:

• Your Lists become Projects, and your tasks, tags, and habits come straight across.

• Then add what TickTick doesn't have: group them under Life areas, and set your goals, each with a success metric, so you can judge which projects deserve your focus and whether the work is paying off.

• Plan on the Timeline to lay your goals out over the year, TickTick has no goal timeline.

• We recommend starting fresh rather than importing everything - this is a good chance to declutter.

Switching from Amazing Marvin

Amazing Marvin is a task manager you assemble by switching Strategies on and off, and goals are one of those optional Strategies. Here's how the two line up:

Transition tips:

• Match your Categories to Life areas. Labels become Tags, and Projects stay Projects.

• Life areas don't nest, so nested Categories become projects or goals.

• Turn each end goal you still care about into a goal with a goal metric.

• Where Marvin used a tracker, pick a unit like Money or Weight.

• Marvin's ongoing goals, like being healthy, fit a Life area's Vision or a habit.

• Link your habits to the goal to see their statistics beside its progress.

• Griply has no Strategies to configure. Every account gets the same structure, ready to use.

• Griply has no Marvin importer, so start fresh with what you still use.

Bringing a List Across by Pasting

Griply has no importer that connects to your old app and pulls everything over. What it does have is a paste that understands lists, which covers the cases where you genuinely want to keep something.

Copy a list out of your old app, click into any inline task row in Griply, and paste. Griply opens a Create multiple tasks? dialog with each line as its own editable task row, so you can set the goal, priority, and dates before anything is created. Dates written in the pasted text are picked up automatically, and lists copied from Things 3 or TickTick carry their planned dates and deadlines across.

A few things to know:

• This is Desktop only.

• Nested bullets are flattened. Sub-bullets become their own top-level tasks rather than subtasks.

• A single line with no list markers pastes as ordinary text into the task row, without opening the dialog.

Use it for the handful of lists that are genuinely still live, not for your whole archive.

General Migration Advice

• Avoid moving everything over, take the opportunity to start with what truly matters.

• Use your old setup as a reference, but rebuild with Griply’s Life Areas → Goals → Subgoals → Projects → Tasks structure.

• Start with your 'why'. Define your Life areas first, then set clear goals, each with a success metric, and let the projects and tasks follow from there. The Life Planning workflow walks you through this top-down approach.