Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Starring tasks with a special tag

Having tasks ready to go can help when you’re keeping things moving during your day. In this week’s tip, dominic.spachmann shows a way to mark these – with a nice visual indicator too!

I found this idea useful to get a short list of tasks to be picked up and get started. This is how I set this up:

1. I created a tag (on iOS) with the name “__⭐️__” (shown as a star on iOS and as a “__*__” on the web client)
2. This tag is now at the beginning of the tags list, which makes it easier to assign the tag to a task (still not just tapping on a star but still).
3. I created a Smart List “__⭐️__” in my Favorites with “tag:__⭐️__ AND (dueBefore:tomorrow OR startAfter:yesterday)” (I love to work with start and due dates, this leverages transparency for me).
4. Also I took the starred tasks out of other Favorite lists like my “Today” and “Focus” lists. I now use those lists to get an overview of what is due and star the tasks I will pick up next.

Really works well for me!

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

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