{"id":809,"date":"2013-09-12T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-09-22T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T08:27:36","slug":"8-who-needs-calendars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/8-who-needs-calendars\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Who needs calendars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"techtipsfortradeunionists\"<\/a>There’s an artificial difference, I think, between calendars and to-do lists. Each one can replace the other — regardless of whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop PC, or even pen and paper.<\/p>\n

This is because pretty much every calendar entry is a task — such as going to a meeting, or a deadline you’ve noted for something you have to do, or even a birthday or anniversary.<\/p>\n

And tasks are, or should be, linked to specific times or days. It’s not enough to say that you’ll write a report — you should decide when you’ll write it by. Nearly every task I have has a due date, even if these are sometimes aspirational only.<\/p>\n

Because calendar entries and tasks overlap in so many ways, I use ToodleDo<\/a> for both. <\/p>\n

So how do I distinguish between a task that should be done today, but could wait until tomorrow, from a calendar entry such a doctor’s appointment? I use priorities for that. The top priority, which in ToodleDo is displayed first and is bold-faced, is for time-specific tasks, such as a 12:00 appointment. I always put the time as the first five characters in the task description, e.g., 12:00 Doctor’s appointment. As nothing else appears in the top priority tasks, I can easily see when I have free time on a specific date, just as I would in a calendar.<\/p>\n

In the past, like many of you, I’ve used both a calendar and a to-do list and found it confusing and redundant to do so. And this was even the case when using personal information managers<\/a> that would display both calendar entries and tasks on the same screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an artificial difference, I think, between calendars and to-do lists. Each one can replace the other — regardless of whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop PC, or even pen and paper. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips-for-trade-unionists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}