{"id":10411,"date":"2006-08-23T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/23\/calendar-vs-todo-list\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:33:45","slug":"calendar-vs-todo-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/23\/calendar-vs-todo-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar vs. TODO list"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I found out that sometimes using a calendar instead of a TODO list can increase productivity.  It turns out that if the due date for a task is not set or is not very specific or depends on something else, I just dump the task in the list and forget all about it.  With calendar it&#8217;s different &#8211; there&#8217;s just no way of adding an item without specifying date.  So add a task and discover that it can&#8217;t be done or I don&#8217;t want to do it on the date that it was set originally.  I move it.  Then I move it again.  Then again.  Eventually, I&#8217;ll get tired of moving it and will just complete it and forget about it.  Yey!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I found out that sometimes using a calendar instead of a TODO list can increase productivity. It turns out that if the due date for a task is not set or is not very specific or depends on something else, I just dump the task in the list and forget all about it. With calendar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/23\/calendar-vs-todo-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calendar vs. TODO list<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8572,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/02\/mark-this-day-in-the-calendar\/","url_meta":{"origin":10411,"position":0},"title":"Mark this day in the calendar","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I am writing this post to mark today in the calendar forever. 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