Task is the technical term for one of the assignments required to complete a project. It is commonly used to refer to GTD techniques and project managements.
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Task Management Application with task dependencies
For some reason, even though there are tons of task management applications out there, I'm not able to find many that have the capability to manage task dependencies. That is to say, if I must do A ...
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How do you organize your life in Asana?
I am looking forward to migrate fully to asana from Things because of pricing/costs reasons. What I have right now in Things (for Mac) is :
Today
Next
Scheduled
Someday
Projects
I have never used ...
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Dislike towards sleeping late in order to study
I dislike/cringe at the thought of having to sleep late in order to study. This is for the reason that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday, and to get the most out of it I need to get the most ...
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Reviewing Past Productivity
I have tried tons of apps, some of the ones I like being Wunderlist and Workflowy. A feature that these 2 don't have (to my knowledge) is a weekly review.. I would love to be able to go back and see ...
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Has anyone ever seen any basic, temporally intelligent scheduling tools out there?
I find myself working on a number of smaller projects for clients, as well as managing my daily list of "to do" items.
I'm looking for a tool that would allow entry of tasks (taskname, duration, ...
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How to trick our minds into doing mundane tasks?
There are some daily tasks I am too lazy to do: simple cleaning, washing dishes, etc. When I have no other pressing tasks, I end up not doing these simple tasks. However, when I have something coming ...
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Solution for Incomplete-able Tasks?
The problem I have with all current to-do list and task management systems is that what I construe as being ‘tasks’ doesn’t seem to be compatible with what the software makers do.
In my definition of ...
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Shortcut to open a web Paymo timer
Is there a chrome extension or a bookmarklet to open Paymo timer?
I know a lot of people use this service for time tracking but you always have to go to the website first and click Timer button.
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Todo/Task/Self-organizer with offline access for Linux
I need a Task/Todo/Self-organizer solution with the following requirements:
Offline access on laptop & mobile (via browser extension or native client)
Support for Android (via mobile web UI or ...
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Merge daily todo with project todo
I'm on a quest of finding the best tool to manage what I do.
TL;DR: Freelance web developer looking for tool to connect project management and daily tasks.
I like Getting Things Done methodology a ...
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Todo list manager with progress bar
After doing some fiddling with some Excel sheets, I saw that it worked out nicely for me to have a monthly or trimestrial todo list with checkboxes and a progress bar on top.
The general look and ...
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How to deal with dreaded tasks?
How do you deal with difficult tasks, which take long to complete?
My problem, for example, are emails which require a lot of writing or research. They are not the main core of my work, and usually ...
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App that has nice separate lists for tasks and goals?
Is their any app (Web based, Android, iPhone, anything) which enables a person to manage both - his tasks and his goals, without mixing them up.
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Hating sleep at night because of inadequate feeling of no achievement during the day
I've been having a hatred for sleep and when i mean hatred i mean a feeling of not wanting to fall asleep because i feel i've done nothing during the day to achieve my goals.
How can i stop feeling ...
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Handling task dependencies with GTD
How does Getting Things Done (GTD) recommend handling task dependencies (one task that can't be started until another task is completed)? I understand how it works when they are part of the same ...
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Learning new material while being a Junior
I have been asked with a task that is about linux driver development and its so complex actually. I'm in the first two months of work, and I don't want say I do not know about this and my boss expects ...
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Why is my productivity the lowest in afternoon?
Is it just me or is productivity low in the afternoon for general population? I find that I'm unable to do simplest of tasks between 1pm and 5 pm.
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When do you update and study other material?
Considering an 8-9 hours a day in a job, you come home, you are tired, wanna listen to music, don't want to study anything new in CS, weekend comes, you never want to touch anything related to work, ...
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Struggling in coding
I have a problem that whenever I struggle with a programming problem, for example in computer vision or game programming, I try to look for an existing demo or some code that does that job. I always ...
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Which way to manage download and put them in workflow to install
i download many apps from links in this stack and then forget to install all of them is there any way to manage it?
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To-Do list that allows users to search - really required?
Unlike every other To-Do list I have ever seen, Astrid Tasks allows its users to search for the tasks as evident from these screenshots:
My Question is: Is this feature really applicable in a ...
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What's the best task manager with sync with Android?
I'm trying to find a task manager to use in my notebook and Android. I wanna hear from you what's the best task manager that let's you sync to use it online, in a notebook, tablet, smartphone Android, ...
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What do I do with reasonably large tasks that are due at some point in the future?
I have found that my todo lists work great for three cases:
Simple things that have a very specific due date (e.g. call Chris at 3pm, pay credit card bill by January 15, etc.)
Things I would like to ...
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Handle tasks with no specific due date
I need a computer program to help me handle my tasks.
I know, there are many task programs, such as Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. My problem is that they can't handle tasks with no specific ...
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Task-oriented file manager
I usually need to manage many slightly different tasks each day. Every task has its own description and documents (divided by type and/or extension). Filesystem is not good enough because it's not so ...
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How to prevent oneself from feeling overwhelmed?
Sometimes, there are a lot of things that you are expected to do and you just don't know where to begin.
You feel like you are being overwhelmed with a lot of tasks and deadlines.
How should one ...
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How to stop obsessing over my to-do list?
The past two years have been crazy. In 2010, I graduated from college and my now-husband and I purchased our home. In 2011, I started a master's degree and we got married. This year, I started a ...
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Fancy Hands equivalent for Germany
I'm looking for an alternative to Fancy Hands in Germany. They offer personal assistants for everyday tasks, that don't want to get off your todo list. Here is a list of typical tasks from their ...
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TO-DO app with ability to categorize, set due dates, priorities and notes for a task
Basically, I'm looking for a merge of teambox, things and redmine. Does anyone knows anything like that? ;)
It should have really nice UI and be extremely simple to use. Cross platform or web/linux.
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How to avoid to-do STACK list?
When making to do list I often have a problem of creating them as Stacks (U know first in last out list ). Some how there will be some items at the top which will block all other items , so until I ...
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Gathering tasks all the time?
I currently am maintaining my tasks in a google excel sheet. I add tasks to it once I start working on my laptop. But there are other house hold tasks, or the ones which my wife tells me, those I ...
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What Android applications schedule tasks which appear each day?
I have some tasks to complete everyday (the same task every day) or on a weekly basis (e.g. every Saturday) and during a particular period (e.g. January 10 to April 20). Are there any applications ...
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How to handle emerging sub tasks and dismissed tasks-in-progress
When working on a (programming) task, often I discover that the goal I set cannot be achieved the way I thought: either (1) it must be split up, or (2) abandoned altogether. In the Pomodoro book, this ...
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How do you estimate time for a new task?
I have designed a site using WordPress. This was just a test WordPress site.
I am now okay with the coding in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and WordPress. Now my senior wants me, just by looking at a JPEG ...
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Task timer tool [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows Freeware/Shareware programs for tracking daily tasks?
Is there a simple tool to manage/track individual tasks with start/stop timer? i.e. when I start a task, I ...
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How do I map my progress so I can easily pick up where I left off?
This seems to be a struggle I have (on multiple levels). I am working to control my WIP so focus loss is reduced, but it still is inevitable. So my question is, when working on something more ...
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Structuring your day/week to be the most productive when you need to do development and non-development tasks?
I have straight development tasks, non-development/business tasks, and some tasks that kind of sit in the middle to do most days, and I was wondering what would be the most efficient way to structure ...
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How do I handle tasks that take long periods of time with Kanban
I see a question out there for ongoing tasks handling those in kanban. I am asking more about how to handle lengthier tasks with Kanban.
Currently I have a board and I run the following columns: ...
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Best Practices for returning to a complex task?
I have alot of complex tasks, and sometimes they get lost in the shuffle and I forget to return to them.
One thing I know helps in returning to a complex task is using a session manager (examples: ...
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Sweeping a wet bathroom floor [closed]
I find that sweeping a bathroom floor when it is wet is very hard. When wet, dust and hairs tend to stick to the floor, making them very hard to sweep up. Furthermore, they tend to get stuck in the ...
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Is there a task manager that incorporates spaced repetition learning?
I'm having students in mind, let's suppose that a student plans to prepare exam for next month.
According to the "forgetting curve", the key for successful study is spaced repetition learning.
Are ...
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Is there a way to link tasks in Remember the Milk?
I'm looking for a way to create a context list in Remember the Milk such that only next actions show up, but when I complete a task its successor task automatically shows up in the list.
Is there a ...
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Is there software to log tasks daily?
My boss wants me to write a logs about what I do during my work day, and he wants me to write how much it takes to perform the given task and details.
Something like:
Revising the CSS of the main ...
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What device(s) and format should I use for my to-do lists, including plans, schedules, timetables.
My problem is I am always making todo lists, timetables, and schedules. Though the problem is not procrastination(Not 100%), it goes like this :
I want a perfect todo list, because of which I ...
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Task Based or Calendar based GTD
Many GTD article specifies that you put tasks for small items (that are less than 15 minutes long) and rest in calendar. I am thinking of using toodledo as primary system and then calendar for ...
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Where can I get a custom designed notebook from?
There are people out there who are just like me. We rarely memorize information just for the purpose of having it. We use Google to know things and we look things up as we need them. We are those ...
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GTD app for iPad?
I'm trying to find a great GTD app for my iPad. I don't have any other iOS devices or a Mac, but I want to ability to access it through my PC (web based is fine). A lot of the better GTD systems seem ...
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What is a good algorithm for spaced review?
I made a wall calendar outlining study tasks to complete over a 2-year period. Each day, there are 3 new tasks (each coming from 1 of 3 textbooks). Each day, I'll progress through the activities in ...
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What's a good replacement to Gqueues Pro?
I like task management tool GQueues (http://www.gqueues.com/). But the pro version is as costly as $25/mo which is too expensive for me as a student. What's a good replacement to it? I mainly would ...
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What techniques can I use to remember to do simple things that are context sensitive?
I find there are often things that I want to do specifically when I'm doing something else, and always forget to. A couple examples (silly as they seem) will probably make this more clear.
The ...
