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Task Chains

GOD | May 28 2006

I just discovered a simple little trick for dealing with dependent tasks -- list them all in a row. For example:

@office - get tax information / @online - check on tax refund status

So, instead of checking it off when the first task is done I'll just edit that task out and leave the rest.

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