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.
julian • Multi-Layered Calendars
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.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
“A to-do list is useful as a collection tool,” writes author Peter Bregman. “Our calendars, on the other hand, make the perfect tool to guide our daily accomplishments. Because our calendars are finite; there are only a certain number of hours in a day.”
Dan Charnas • Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind
a task engine—an efficient generator of numerous urgent small things to do.