Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping work and home life separate with Smart Lists

One of the benefits of keeping lists of tasks is that everything can be in one place. However, it can get a bit tricky to keep things separated. This week breadbean shares a handy tip: using the power of Smart Lists, you can easily keep your work and home tasks so you can focus on what you can do in each place.

I use RTM for home and work, keeping things separate with Inbox, B and C lists for home and Work A, B and C lists. On my smartphone I use two widgets, one as ‘due today’ and the other as 'work due today’.

The Smart List syntax for 'due today’ is:

NOT list:WorkAList and NOT list:WorkBList and NOT list:WorkCList status:incomplete and due:today or dueBefore:today

The syntax for 'work due today’ is:

list:WorkAList status:incomplete and due:today or dueBefore:today NOT list:Inbox

I also have a list for 'weekly orders’ for products I need to purchase repeatedly for work, I just tag them 'orders’ with a repeating schedule and put them in the WorkAList. BAM, done! This might look confusing, but it actually simplifies my life so much!

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