The thing that really made task management stick for me was the creation of a personalized task management meta-model: What workflows do I wish to follow and which task attributes and views are needed to enable those workflows? After thinking through that, it became easy to find and configure a task management app in a way that it got consistently used.

Here is the reference I used for creating my own task management meta-model:

https://sagar.se/blog/a-task-management-model/