{"id":6865,"date":"2017-05-22T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:05:33","slug":"linked-finding-balance-and-task-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/linked-finding-balance-and-task-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Finding Balance and Task Management&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3018,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/specialkolin.com\\\/2017\\\/finding-balance-and-task-management&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20211205071204\\\/http:\\\/\\\/specialkolin.com\\\/2017\\\/finding-balance-and-task-management&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kolintoney.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-04 13:32:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 16:56:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 00:17:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 01:53:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 00:38:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 14:34:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 14:34:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3019,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34692306871&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104023126\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34692306871&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-04 13:32:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 16:56:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 07:12:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 01:53:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 00:38:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 14:33:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 14:33:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialkolin.com\/2017\/finding-balance-and-task-management\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via SpecialKolin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Let me know what you think, though. Have you used an app like Todoist? Do you think taking things on gradually instead of all at once would be better for me?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was feverishly a Things user for iOS &amp; Mac back in 2008-2010. There came a time when I spent more time managing tasks than completing them and I sort of went bankrupt. My workflow today is that I force all of my tasks to arrive to me through email. I don\u2019t receive any to-do anywhere else. Some times it\u2019s an IM conversation but really, email is my depository even for myself. You\u2019ll catch me 5+ times a day emailing myself reminders and I still reach Inbox-Zero every day. As I work for a European company, I wake up with 30 actionable emails a day, work through them by noon then focus on my own projects after lunch (which is when I\u2019m writing this while reading RSS feeds).<\/p>\n<p>GTD \/ ToDo applications are great. They really are especially if you\u2019re bad at email. For future things in email that can\u2019t get down right now which conflicts with Inbox Zero methodology, I add to iCal in a personal calendar appointment. Here\u2019s my calendar:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;How I Organize my Calendar&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/34692306871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"How I Organize my Calendar\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"197\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4184\/34692306871_63f2138513_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was last week\u2019s. Purple is work only tasks, mostly invites from colleagues. Green is my shared calendar with Heather. We put a header of H or A or H+A: before the appointment to indicate who is attending and the time, location, etc. It does mean I get notifications for Heather\u2019s events but it allows us to coordinate plans when a friend asks me if we\u2019re free Friday. Blue are personal non-work appointments which could be a real thing like going to the dentist but also are things like \u201cGet a list to Eugene of bottles to bring to belgium\u201d or \u201cemail mom back\u201d and I put them at times where nothing else is going on but on the day it needs to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calendar + Email are my GTD methods now. Nothing gets forgotten and everything gets done. It\u2019s nice to spend over a hundred bucks on Things + OmniFocus but sometimes you can avoid it. The only time I would recommend someone get Things would be for project based tasks. If a project has 20+ tasks and you lose track of them easily or what order or what\u2019s been done, that\u2019s an area where Things could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via SpecialKolin: Let me know what you think, though. Have you used an app like Todoist? Do you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-05-22T16:05:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"5aba326e-35d9-4db7-b98b-c47a5cd6162e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-05-22T16:05:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWroybjXZTbe5i8R6XNYWLg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1MJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7192,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/linked-apples-grand-vision\/","url_meta":{"origin":6865,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple&#8217;s Grand Vision&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Above Avalon: It's becoming clear that Apple's product priorities are shifting. 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