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gtuckerkellogg
Steel Contributor
Nov 25, 2020

Feature request: Add to My Day (Tomorrow)

I love the Add to My Day feature. I love that it disappears when the day is done. It's fantastic. But it only works for that day. I believe there is evidence that setting up a daily list the night be...
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Rheinliebe
Brass Contributor
Jun 27, 2022
Well, it seems you might need a lot more coffee to understand the issue 😉 Clicking on plus is not the challenge but to organise "My day" the night before. If I do this, all action points will be gone again on the actual day and I have to do it all over again. I want to be able to plan my tasks for the following day rather than on that day.
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Dr_Snooze
Brass Contributor
Jun 28, 2022
Your action points are not gone. They are there in the Suggestions panel. It's the first thing that pops up in My Day when you click on it each morning. All your uncompleted My Day tasks from the day before are listed there. Just click the plus signs to add them back to My Day. No coffee required. 🙂
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    SPRex
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 03, 2022

    Dr_Snooze 

    I agree 100% with Rheinliebe , so as he/she clearly demonstrates, there is no forward "look" capacity except for everything based on Due dates which is really poor.

    Here is another simple example.

    Something may not be due for 3 weeks, but I need to give it a mere 15mins tomorrow. I determine that fact during a team meeting at 11am, but now I need to create another task in outlook & Flag it, or To-Do or Planner or appointment in calendar (so complicated) & date it, to remind to spend time on it for tomorrow. Then I must hold that in my memory all day & all night until the next morning so that I do not forget 'tomorrow morning' to include it in 'my day' now that I can put it in 'My Day'

    Now is a problem, Nor can I take 5 or 10mins out at the end of the day and map out tomorrow - do I have 8hours of work to do or 15hrs? When can I fit it in? What needs delaying to another day or delegating to another team member? How can I take on an extra task for the team tomorrow?

    Who knows with this system. 

    Just a "my tomorrow" would be a huge help - it is the weakest link in the chain with this system.

    You end up reactive with your time management, and an under achiever. To get good amounts done and get ahead in life we need to be able to plan our time ahead a lot better than this.

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    Rheinliebe
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 29, 2022
    I still suggest coffee 😉 ... what you describe is a work around but not very satisfying. There might be tasks left from yesterday or the day before or day for today that I may not want to add to my day. I simply want to sit down at the end of the day, review the day, make decisions on the tasks for the next day, bring them in priority order and create "my day" ahead in order to kick start the next day with the first task rather than planning the day. With the current work around I have to touch my task management twice a) review at the end of the day, b) planning 'my day'. This is unnecessary and not easy to sell to high performing users.
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      SPRex
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 03, 2022
      Rheinliebe,
      The smartlist does help a little. Except for sub steps of a task.
      Also where to put request for time estimating on tasks?
      We use for example [30m] at the end of a step, and keep updating the running total at the main task title for example [5h]
      Wish they could automate this!
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        Rheinliebe
        Brass Contributor
        Jul 04, 2022
        I recommend in my courses to make the time estimate part of the task name. E.g.
        (25 min) review status of feedbacks
        This way it is easier to pick and choose a tasks by time reqirement rather than subject. The advantagr is, if there are 15 min to the next meeting at a glance I can see what task I could fit in the gap. To have this feature as part of the app would ve a very nice to have