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If You’re Keeping Tasks in Your Calendar, I Hope You Know What You’re Doing
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Do tasks belong in your calendar, or don’t they?
Apple’s latest System update has brought Reminders into the Calendar, so we know where they stand on the question of whether or not tasks belong in a calendar.
Calendars are for events, task managers are for tasks, notes apps are for details. That’s a widely accepted principle. If you are using the traditional version of each of these and you’re happy with the way it’s working, then stop there! That’s all you need.
Because I’m tracking tasks bare-bones style in my notes app, anything time sensitive is manually placed into my calendar. Repeating tasks become either events (if they’re time sensitive) or reminders. They’re easy to drag between days and timeslots.
Tasks that need doing sometime in order to move a project along go in my plain text task file, tagged with @1, @2, @3, or @4 depending on whether I plan to do them this week, this month, next month, or 3+ months. What go on the calendar are time blocks for working…
