Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Review your most-postponed tasks with an advanced sort

Especially for the procrastinators among us, sometimes it can be good to take a look at those tasks you just haven’t completed in some time. Using an advanced sort, kathryn.robinson shares a tip walking you through finding your most-postponed tasks so you can take care of them one way or another. That’ll help keep your lists nice and tidy!

I tend to postpone certain tasks over and over in a vain attempt to avoid them. To address that I occasionally schedule some time to face those tasks head on. I do this by using an Advanced Sort.

When in the desired task list where the often-avoided tasks are buried, click on the gear for the Sort drop-down and choose “Advanced”, then “New” and use these settings:

• 1st sort by: Postponed, descending
• 2nd sort by: Priority, ascending

Your list will be sorted with the most-avoided task at the top. If you are curious, you can see just how many times you have postponed a task by clicking the small case “i” near the upper right corner when viewing task details.

My worst one today was postponed 24 times…

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

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