![]() ![]() I don’t always get to it right away at 8:00am, but I do that so it sits at the top of my to-do list. I set my “Start Up” task to kick off at 8:00am every weekday. That being said, there are cases where recurring tasks should be done at a particular time. It gets cluttered very quickly, and even a little bit of clutter in my plans for the day will derail anything I try to accomplish. But switching between those and time-based tasks really strikes me as unintuitive. Sure, I could use recurring events and set them to “All Day” events, keeping them at the top of the calendar for the day. And if I don’t get to my desk until 8:17am one morning because one of the kids threw up, or I didn’t get into the shower quickly enough, or whatever… what do I do with my 8:00am task? Do I have to cut it? Do I get to it now and push off my 8:30am task? You can have that same level of granularity.īut with a calendar, you have to assign these activities to certain times. ![]() I’ve read countless blog post from other productivity nuts who say that a calendar is the best to-do list app you can use. Every third Wednesday? You get the idea.Īudience building is something that used to slip through the cracks. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday? Okay. The power in Todoist, of course, is the granularity you can use when building your recurring tasks. ![]() Setting up recurring tasks is simple and straightforward, and it’s much easier for me to just pull up my list every day and see what I have to do instead of having to build that list every day. Honestly, recurring tasks is the main reason why I switched from my Bullet Journal back to an app, and I’m really glad I did. I found myself too often managing my to-do list instead of executing my to-do list. I understand the value in doing this, but in practice, it didn’t work well for my brain. The philosophy behind the Bullet Journal Method, which I had used prior to Todoist for a long time, required you to engage with your to-do list regularly: managing it and clearing/repeating transaction intentionally. This may or may not be the way your brain works. I want them to just pop up on my list so I can knock them out. I don’t like to have to think about or remember certain tasks. If there’s one thing I’ve always needed from a to-do list manager, it’s recurring tasks. This post is part of an ongoing series on How I Use Todoist. ![]()
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