Spend your time doing your tasks, not managing them
Task manager apps are often designed to act like mini-databases. They continually add more and more fields to task entries to give you ways to sort and filter your tasks like database records. The end result of all of these fields is that you need to spend more time managing your tasks instead of working on them.
TIME WASTERS
One example is tracking the priority level of tasks using “important” flags or priority 1/2/3 settings. In reality, a task is only high priority in relation to everything else that you need to do. When a surprise project pops up or something suddenly becomes a high priority, you now need to edit all your tasks to bump down their priority level.
Start dates and percentage complete fields are other examples. These are really just more bells and whistles that take up your time tweaking and keeping up to date.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
DailyBalance keeps things simple. Task fields are only those that pertain to the task itself and are never dependent on other tasks. For things like priority, simply move high priority tasks higher in the list. Or you can use sections in the Day Planner to indicate high priority tasks. (See the Planner Template for the Eisenhower Matrix as one approach.)
The DailyBalance approach to reviewing regularly and planning each day will help you stay on top of your most important tasks.