Re: specifying priority with template expansion

["David A. Thompson" <thompdump@gmail.com>]

On 12/03/2010 12:40 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:
> Can you give us a better idea of the use case? As I understand,
> unprioritzed todos count as "B" by default. Since most of my tasks
> have a priority of B, I've never found setting priorities to be
> helpful until I sit down to review my work for the day.
>
> I prioritize items that are important (or urgent) with A at the
> beginning of the day (no more than a couple, usually). Most items are
> "B" and rarely more than half of those get done.
>
> If I want to "sink" an item but keep it scheduled, it gets a priority of "C".

Most of my todos are neither associated with deadlines nor are they 
scheduled. Schedules and deadlines have seemed a more time-intensive way 
to go relative to setting priorities (but perhaps this is a 'Green Eggs 
and Ham' thing?)

> These are often things I do not know when recording an item.

I guess the main difference is that I generally am typically able to 
recognize, when recording a todo, whether it's in the 'urgent/asap' pile 
(A), the 'try-and-get-it-done-sometime-soon' pile (B), or in a 
'sure-would-be-nice-to-get-it-done' pile (C). Given that, it seemed both 
logical and more efficient to immediately prioritize the item rather 
than going back later and prioritizing the item.

Thanks for any additional thoughts/suggestions...

- Alan

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