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Getting rid of priorities

Herah | Oct 2 2006

I don't want to do priorities. Managing priorities was the biggest timesuck in my old system; I tended to get stuck in arranging the list and tuning my rules for arranging the list, and nothing got done.

On the other hand, my @Work context has 255 active items. My @Home context has 375. Some of them will go away if I ever actually review the whole list, but -- I can't glance over that and make a choice for right now. I need smaller buckets.

How do you handle this?

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