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Setup Tasks

Now set up your main Tasks table, and remember that less is more!

Decide which columns you want → Hint: Less is more! Less gardening.

Decide which columns you'd like to keep. Hint: try to keep this to a minimum. My set is:

Frog: Set a (single!) task to be the 🐸🐸🐸 task for the day - this should be highlighted and be handled first in the day

Task: The top level description - note that mine often feel like "projects" than tasks

Next Step: The smallest next step I can do to move that task forward

Future Steps: The rest of the steps that need to be done to complete the task

When: Maps to the

Setup: Priority Timeframes⁠

above

Category: Maps to the

Setup: Category Buckets⁠

above

Next Who: Maps to the

Setup: Me vs Not Me⁠

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Decide which colors you want → Hint: Less is more! Glanceable Views.

I also set up a handful of

colors⁠

to highlight:

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The 🐸🐸🐸 task for the day should stand out as much as possible (dark green). If there is more than one, they both turn

⁠

Everything marked for

@1 Today [4/30]⁠

and on My Plate has a light green background - these are the next most important to focus on today.

Everything on my plate has Green text while everything else has Grey text, and if it's due today, it's Bold.

If it's

@5 Done⁠

, then it's crossed out and grey.

You can make those as fancy as you like, but keep in mind that the primary point is to be able to tell at a glance what's important right now vs not.

Tasks

Tasks

Frog?

Task

Next Step

Future Steps

When

👉 Next up:
`Triage by Category`⁠
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Setup Tasks

Decide which columns you want → Hint: Less is more! Less gardening.

Decide which colors you want → Hint: Less is more! Glanceable Views.

👉 Next up: Triage by Category⁠⁠

👉 Next up:
`Triage by Category`⁠
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