Paco Cantero
2 min readJan 7, 2022

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Hi, Ellane!

Thanks so much for reading and commenting!

I hope my approach is useful for you!

Yes, in my case, finding out that “middle entity” (“task or micro-project”) was life-changing for me.

Since then, I have the 3 perfect sizes to manage my whole life:

  1. Projects. Big entity, bird eye’s view.
  2. Tasks or micro-projects. Mid size entity. Great to plan on a daily/weekly basis.
  3. To-dos. “Stupid” tiny things you need to be on top of them.

I’ve created a type of note I call TASK. I name it TASK “<name of the task>”, so that I can quickly identify them inside my system.

This type of notes have this Front Matter:

taskPriority: 3
taskStatus: active
taskDoDate: 2022–01–07
taskWeekDay: Friday
taskDone: 0
taskWeek: 1

I’ve put values on each variable so that you can “get the idea”.

  • taskWeekDay lets me easily identify the day on my different lists I create using the Dataview plugin. It’s not really necessary, but it helps me a lot when I’m seeing my table lists, for example, my “This week’s tasks” list. I can clearly see what I’ve planned for the whole week, moving things from one day to another looking for balance throughout the whole week.
  • taskWeek lets me identify the week I plan to do that task.

As you can see, they’re all values I write “manually”.

It seems a “crazy approach”, but this “manually” is much faster than any other “automated” approach I’ve ever made.

I’m sorry to say I cannot share my dashboards due to privacy issues.

I’ll try to create a new vault to use it only for examples because I agree it’s easier to understand these concepts by seeing the dashboards.

Thanks for your comprehension!

Take care!

Cheers!

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Paco Cantero
Paco Cantero

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