A blog about team productivity by Sandglaz
One of the most powerful features of Sandglaz is the ability to tag your tasks to give them more meaning and context.
There are 2 ways to tag your tasks in Sandglaz:
Hashtags are used to label your tasks. Hashtags always start with a '#' character. Example: #Design
Usertags are used assign a task to someone (including yourself). Usertags always start with a '@' character. Example: @John
There are a lot of different ways to decide on what you should be doing next.
The most common way of tagging tasks is with a deadline.
Sometimes your boss, client, or team might hand you a deadline.
And you drop everything and start churning on the most pressing tasks. Once that work is done, you move on to check "what's due next."
But there are other ways to figure out what you should be doing.
Tagging tasks using a method other than deadline can help you get more done and look at your task manager in a different way.
So here are 4 different ways to decide which tasks you should be working on right now:
Calendars often get abused as task managers.
At the end of a busy workday, you probably make a mental note of what you need to get done tomorrow.
And planning for tomorrow is always good idea. But capturing tomorrow's tasks in your calendar isn't the best way to go.
If you're moving something on your calendar more than a couple of times a week, then that's probably something you need to be tracking inside a task manager.
We're going to breakdown what calendars are good for and what they're bad for.
Today, we're excited to launch email notifications for tasks.
Email notifications help you stay on top of tasks so you know when a task has been assigned to you or when a task you're tagged on is modified.
Any user tagged with their @Username on a task will receive an email notification when that task is edited, updated with a note, or completed.
Whether you're a task management neophyte or have been listing like a maniac for 30 years, chances are you've probably acted like one of the following three newbie listers at some point. Which one do you most closely identify with?
How many itemized tasks can you do in a day? 42? 60? You can hammer out 87 to-do’s in an average day, right?
Probably not.
The overlister starts each day with a blank list and goes to town like a meth addict re-writing a dictionary. Every tiny chore, every grand scheme is written down; the overlister is only limited by the size of their notepad and the amount of ink in their pen.