Habit: Automate Recurring & Future Tasks
We all have recurring tasks in our lives. Paying the bills, taking out the trash on trash day, getting the car tires rotated, giving the dog medication, filing expense reports, etc., etc.
Most people use a hodgepodge of apps, calendars and other solutions to remind them to do tasks on a recurring basis. Having some automated system is a lot better than trying to remember those things in your head. Using your mind to remind you to do things is a sure way to stress yourself out.
INTRODUCING TRIGGERS
In DailyBalance, you can create Triggers to automate your recurring tasks. You create a Trigger with the name of your task and the recurring pattern. For example, you might create a Trigger named “Pay the bills” and set it to recur every month on the first day of the month.
When this Trigger comes due on the first of the month, it will “fire” and produce a new task called “Pay the bills” in your Inbox folder. You can then manage that task along with all your other tasks in the Master List and decide when to plan it.
This approach hides recurring tasks until it’s time to actually do them, which reduces the clutter in your Master List.
FUTURE TASKS
Another way to avoid clutter in your Master List is to automate “future tasks”. Future tasks are tasks that you can’t do anything about until a future date. One-Time Triggers in DailyBalance allow you to create Triggers that fire once on a specific date. For example, say that on Monday you realize that you want to remember to call your friend Joe on Friday. Instead of creating that task now and ignoring it all week, create a One-Time Trigger and the task “Call Joe” will pop into your Inbox on Friday.