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Strictly speaking, that should go on your calendar...
by maaku 13y ago
Strictly speaking, that should go on your calendar...
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- Anderkent 13y agoBecause every task has a deadline, and you should only look at the task on the day that it must be finished.
- npizzolato 13y agoWhich works great until a task takes more than a day to accomplish, you're busy on the due date, or you need someone else's help, and they don't appreciate having to drop everything they wanted to do on that day so they can help you before the looming deadline.
- maaku 13y agoYou shouldn't have anything on a todo list that you cant actually do anything about. In the original example we were talking about property tax: that should be on the calendar the day that you have the information necessary to pay the tax. It then goes from there onto one of your to do lists.
- raldi 13y agoNah; then you just set a calendar reminder N days in advance.
- npizzolato 13y agoA calendar is just a different way to organize a todo list :)
- raldi 13y agoMy calendar is my todo list. If I don't get the thing done, I drag it forward a couple days.
- maaku 13y agoYou could be much more efficient by separating next actions from date-triggered actions.
- raldi 13y agoWhy? If I have some free time and I'm looking for work to do, I can always just look at the calendar entries for upcoming days.
- maaku 13y agoBecause everytime you review your future calendar entries you have to read, process, and skip over all the stuff that actually is tied to the time it is written down (e.g. appointments and such). By keeping your list of next actions separate from your calendar entries you make sure that at any given time you are reviewing just what you need to.