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I like this. I like that you looked at how everyone else did something (i.e. ordering by time) and asked "why?". Why not plot it in a more meaningful space? I h

I like this. I like that you looked at how everyone else did something (i.e. ordering by time) and asked "why?". Why not plot it in a more meaningful space? I have one idea -- what if node color was a function of time, and the x-axis was changed to effort? You start the node at one color, and progressively change it to another color using linear interpolation. When creating a TODO item: 1. Specify title. 2. Specify dueDate. 3. Capture startDate = now(). Then currentColor = lerp(now(), startDate, dueDate, initColorVector, finalColorVector) This would add a third dimension of information. I'd be able to see impact/effort as well as urgency visually. Another idea is to specify the shape (square, circle, triangle) to add some categorization capability. I'm not sure how much is too much. But the visual cortex is a beast.

educated_idiot 6y ago
As an engineer, I love your idea. The original use case for this tool is daily self-prioritization and I wanted to keep it really, really simple. Planning in general is overwhelming and I wanted to take that pain away, coz I found myself spending longer in planning than actually doing. By only considering the impact/urgency of a task, you take away the effort/time cost and only focus on the task at hand, irrespective of how much time it takes. As an example, if you have a task that is extremely high impact and high urgency, will you drop it in favor of another task that is quicker but lower in impact/urgency? Since you are defining your own task, the expectation is that your mental model takes care of impact/ effort and (somehow) fuses that information into one value. I will keep your feedback in mind and think of a nice way. Thanks for the kind words