You live in a situation of permanent crisis.

No matter how many colors you use to identify different types of tasks, a task is not the equivalent to a gap in the calendar (it may require of many gaps on different days and in different sizes). Yo do not know how many tasks you have or how many you still have left to finish a given project.

Using a calendar normally involves a sense of urgency that is evident each time the tool sends you an alert to your email or your mobile to tell you that within X minutes you have a scheduled job that you did not remember. Any inclusion in the calendar leads to a shift of everything that follows. As you could not complete everything planned for today and also there are new emergencies, now you have to redo tomorrow’s schedule and all the following days to include these tasks. You plan out one or more days, probably a week. To keep the calendar updated requires a lot of work.This, on a daily basis, undermines anyone’s morale. Because of the above, at the end of the day, you have only finished 3 of the 7 tasks included in the calendar. The calendar is a source of frustration.What you thought was going to take 30 minutes, turns out to take 45 so you cannot start the next task because you have a meeting which, by the way, ends up lasting 20 minutes more than planned. If you’re like me, you’re going to be wrong 9 times out of 10. You do not know how long a task will take.

Todo calendar