Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Following up on your follow-up tasks

If you keep track of follow-up tasks, you probably know that sometimes it can feel like tasks upon tasks. This week, jjcardil shares a tip to keep those follow-ups together in a Smart List and, well, to follow up on them.

One of the challenges I face with my to-do lists are followup actions. I don’t like adding followup actions to my lists as most followups are similar or the same as the original task that I think I completed. I also don’t like keeping an item on the list until the followup is done. Both approaches seem to just “clog” up my lists.

I found the perfect solution, a Followup Smart List. I created a Smart List that is generated if the action contains the word followup. Now when I complete a task that requires followup, I add a task with the first work being Followup and it automatically goes on my Followup Smart List. Every few days I scan the Followup list and take action on the ones that have been sitting too long.

Thanks for sharing this tip, jjcardil! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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