{"id":1229,"date":"2014-12-01T04:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2014-12-01T04:40:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:40:52","slug":"experimenting-with-to-do-list-task-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with to-do list task priority\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was alone through the holidays I decided to run an experiment. I set all my task priorities to zero for the last few days, leveling the playing field. The result was pretty awesome. I did two days of just see a task and do it, not worrying about if there was anything-higher priority to be done. <\/p>\n<p>What interested me is that I had blinders to a large number of tasks that I eventually intended to get around to, but which were perpetually starved by higher priority tasks. A good example is this tool rack. I had been meaning to build one for a while.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wire_rack.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"my_wire_till\" width=\"1211\" height=\"1252\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rack lets me easily carry wire cutters and a few spools of wire around the electronics shop.  It took less than an hour to make, and I liked it so much I made four more. I also made significant headway on 3 projects I care about too much to let die, but that always seem to be eclipsed by higher priority projects. <\/p>\n<p>Would I do the whole \u201csee a task, do a task\u201d full time? Heck no. I do think this is going to be my new holiday tradition. The results were more promising than experiments with non-traditional sleep schedules, without feeling like you were hit in the head with a rock if you fell off the sleep regime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was alone through the holidays I decided to run an experiment. I set all my task priorities to zero for the last few days, leveling the playing field. The result was pretty awesome. I did two days of just see a task and do it, not worrying about if there was anything-higher priority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}