![]() ![]() In the meantime, you’re left looking at a big long list of things you need to do. Most often we have to fall back to using a calendar to decide when we’ll actually do it. And simply put, most digital task managers (if any) have a way to set this. The scheduled date of the task, when are you actually going to start working on it so it’s complete by its due date. In reality when we say those things what we really mean is, I’m going to do it sometime next week. You’re required to edit and adjust the dates on all these because otherwise, you’re instantly swimming in a sea of overwhelm. At best that means that you have a whole pile of tasks with a start date of Monday (and if you only have due dates then a whole heap of tasks are now overdue right at the beginning of the week). So Next Week usually means whatever date the next Monday is. Sure, digital task managers can now allow us to set dates using more natural language but it still ends up setting an actual specific date. We usually say things like, “I’ll do this next week”, or “I must remember to renew this next year”, or “I’ll do this in July”. I don’t know about you but that’s not how I talk about when I’m going to do something. The problem with digital task managers and start dates is that it’s still a specific date that you have to pick. And that’s just a slippery slope to overwhelm and a sea of red overdue tasks. Plenty of task managers don’t even have this date. ![]() Then we have a starting date, a time we want to think about starting this task. Digital task managers have this date down. The obvious one is the deadline or due date. There are three dates that we tend to think about when it comes to managing a task effectively. ![]()
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