![]() In the worst case scenario, I wouldn’t see those tasks until the next day missing them entirely. I’d check everything off for the day and revel in the feeling that my tasks were done, not knowing another task (or tasks) had a start time later in the day. I’d start my day with no clue of how many tasks were scheduled. Why see a task before you can work on it? As an Omnifocus user, I loved start times. It’s also a bit reminiscent of my days using Omnifocus’s start times which prevented things from showing up until I could truly do them. I’ve been using this method for a few weeks and I’m actually really liking it. Once I’m done, I can filter my Today list by the This Morning tag which reduces my Today list to only tasks I can do that morning and nothing more. On mornings where I’m feeling a little more overwhelmed, I can go through and find all the tasks in my Today view that I need and can do first thing in the morning and tag them with my morning tag and (optionally) do the same with the afternoon tag. (Cultured Code, if you’re listening, an option to have a This Morning or This Afternoon section could be nice.) Things 3 already has a This Evening section, but I’ve manually created tags for This Morning and This Afternoon. While there’s now a few different layouts, the original Erin Condren planners I used broke each day down into three blocks, Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. My solution ended up being a fairly straightforward method that I adopted from my Erin Condren paper planner days. Ordering my list manually allowed me to build out a plan for my day every morning, and I no longer had that plan. Over time, I found myself spending a LOT of mental bandwidth simply scanning through my list multiple times a day to figure out what I could work on next. Little did I know just how much jumping I would end up doing. I also tend to work better on reports in the afternoon anyway.Īt the time of making that change, I even noted that I was already finding myself jumping around in the list. Similarly, if my morning was full of appointments, I probably wouldn’t have time to handle putting together a report. Making a handful of phone calls while the other half is still sound asleep in the next room probably wouldn’t go over well. Sometimes those highest priority tasks weren’t things I could do in the morning. In theory, this change was great for my workflow. This meant my highest priority tasks were always at the top for me to do first thing in the morning. As I shared in that earlier post, when first made the switch, I thought I’d be fine with this tradeoff because my areas and their respective projects are ordered by priority. Back in September I wrote about the first of those changes – namely turning on the preference to group my Today view in Things by project to feel a little less overwhelmed.Ī side effect of this setting is that I could no longer manually order my tasks to reflect the order I planned to do them during the day. Working from home during the pandemic has unsurprisingly impacted how I do my work.
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