Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Stress-free is the way

Staring down a long list in a given day can feel intimidating, even if it’s a reasonable number of tasks.

In this week’s tip, fant suggests an easy way to pace yourself: show tasks only as their due time approaches. That way you can focus on just the tasks that are coming up. 😅

In the day view, I find it a bit stressful to see tasks that aren’t due until the evening.

So I created a Smart List, surprisingly called “today”, which contains the following part in the query:

AND (dueBefore:“6 hours of now”) AND NOT due:tom

For tasks like taking pills this evening, I set a due time. This has two advantages:

a) I’m not confronted with tasks that aren’t due until the evening every time I look at today’s list.

b) I receive a notification on my smartphone.

Of course, the time at which the task is to be shown can be set as desired. After some trial, I set 6 hours.

A second Smart List called “upcoming” shows all today’s tasks and the tasks for the next 10 days. Just to get an overview of what’s coming up in the course of the day and the next few days. Alternatively, the built-in list “This Week” can do the same.

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

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