I only started using time-based labels recently, and it was actually after dealing with a few Productivityist Coaching clients who felt that they would work well for them.
All a location-based label is designed to do is tell me where I need to be to complete that task, whether it’s a physical space or an app. Instead, I’ll use labels for the apps I need to be using for certain tasks ( Evernote for idea management is a great example) or I’ll use a more generic label like “Email” or “Calls” for tasks that require me to use a phone (landline or mobile) or email ( Postbox or Dispatch). I don’t use a label called “Work” because I find that to be too vague. I only use “Home” as a label for tasks that live in the project “Household Maintenance” because it allows me to clearly separate my work life from my home life. I define locations as places that exist both in the offline and online world, mainly because I spend much of my time working from home. Still, creating perspectives in OmniFocus can be challenging for the novice user, whereas adding additional labels to tasks in Todoist is incredibly simple.
I can’t do that in OmniFocus, although I could create Perspectives that shape a similar workflow. Here are some of the categories I use when creating labels: LocationĪs you can see in the image above, “Share Mikes on Mics” is a task that requires Low Energy and the location that I can complete the task in is “Social” (as in “social networks”). I have used energy levels as modes for a long time (ever since Sven Fechner delivered a talk that drove home how useful they are when used as GTD contexts), and with Todoist I can now attach more conventional modes/labels to a task alongside energy levels. Modes are what add real value to my tasks, and the labelling feature in Todoist really lets me add a ton of value to each and every task I add to the app. Other apps (Asana, for example) use the term “tags” rather than labels or modes, but I treat them essentially in the same manner.
I treat Todoist’s labels as modes, as per my productivity approach The NOW Year Formula. But perhaps the thing that I’ve found most appealing is the ability to use multiple labels for a task. Todoist has been my task manager of choice for a few months now, and while I still find that I’m missing some features that would make it even better (URL schemes, Start Dates, etc.), I still find that it has a lot to offer that many task managers out there don’t ( which I outlined in an earlier post).
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