For today’s Cue tip, I present “pinning tasks”.
Pinned tasks are tasks that are pinned to a list.
A pinned task won’t be removed from a list if it’s dragged to another one. Instead, it will be copied.
In Cue there are lists that are dated, which are your daily plans. And lists that are not. The undated ones are tickler lists, or custom lists you have made.
Let’s look at each one.
Daily plans
For your daily plans, once you’ve made them, you typically want all tasks to be pinned. The plan is a record of your intentions for the day. When you plan the next day, dragging tasks from the previous daily plan shouldn’t remove them, even if they were not completed.
Tickler lists
For tickler lists, you typically want tasks to not be pinned. Most ticklers are one-time reminders. So by default, these tasks won’t be pinned. But pinning a task to a tickler list makes it repeatable.
For example, I have a task on my Sunday tickler to do “Weekly planning”. This is pinned to Sunday, so that when I drag it to my daily plan, it stays on the Sunday tickler and is there for the next week.
Custom lists
Another use for pinned tasks is when you create a custom checklist for easy inclusion in your daily plans. Maybe you have a routine that you occasionally go through. Pinning all of these tasks in a custom list keeps them there, while allowing you to drag them over to a daily plan whenever you want to.
Why Pinned Tasks?
Pinned tasks are not a thing in most todo apps. So why in Cue?
Cue has a different philosophy. It’s not a todo app. It’s purpose is to help you plan out your day.
When you do, you end up with a single daily plan to come back to as you execute on it.
It’s much easier to manage than 20 different todo lists. Or 10. Or even 3 or 2.
And because of that, managing tasks looks different.
And pinning tasks to lists is one small part of that.
Stay tuned for future improvements to make planning your days even easier.