The Calendar Trap: Why Your Task Management System Needs a Complete Overhaul
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The Calendar Trap: Why Your Task Management System Needs a Complete Overhaul
Treating todos as calendar events is helpful because calendars introduce constraints. A calendar forces you to estimate how long each task will take and then find empty space for it on a 24 hours × 7 days grid, which is already cluttered with other things. It’s like playing Tetris with blocks of time.
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It works as follows: Create a public task list for each of the major categories of tasks you tackle in your job.
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A to-do list could highlight today’s tasks in detail while showing summaries of weekly goals and overarching projects.
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but also when we are defining tasks, containing the time we spend on them, and structuring them so we can work with them more easily.