Time Management With Leadertask

By Author: Alexey Abramovsky
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The entire time management comes down to three magical words: Plan, Prioritize, Act. That's what all books on time management are about. It's just that they deliver it from different angles, from different points of view, in different ways. This manual targets users with zero knowledge about time management, which means it is about how to start increasing your efficiency and managing your time without having read any books on time management. The manual contains the most important, simple and effective techniques how to increase the efficiency of a person, how to organize time management in the simplest and most reliable way.

So. The main time management rule is not to do everything, but to do the most important things. No person has ever managed to complete all tasks because there are always more tasks than time. It is important to do the main things, those that return 80% of result. As it was said above, the entire time management comes down to three words: Plan, Prioritize, Act. Plan it means you have to make up the list of tasks that have to be done. Prioritize it means ...
... you have to single out the main things, i.e. highlight the most important tasks from the entire task list and put them first. Act it means you have to complete the main tasks first. You need a tool for effective time management because you have to write tasks on some external media since you'd rather keep your mind free for new ideas and entrust your reliable friend and assistant, the LeaderTask organizer, with organizing and storing your tasks!

Getting started with LeaderTask.

Let's start from the most important thing how to use the three magical words of time management in LeaderTask:

Creating the list of your tasks (Plan!).
Setting deadlines and priorities (Prioritize!)
Viewing tasks for Today (Act!)

Creating the list of your tasks

To start planning your time effectively, you should create the list of all tasks that need to be done in the near future and later on.
There are three ways to add a new task:

Press the Ins key
Click the right mouse button and select Add Task on the menu
Select the "Add Task" button on the toolbar

Use the way that is convenient for you to add all tasks to LeaderTask.

Setting deadlines and priorities

After the task list is ready, you should specify what and when to do. If the task is to be completed on a certain day, you need to set the deadline it will be urgent before for it. There are several ways to set a deadline for a task:

click the Date button in the task properties
drag and drop the task from the tree to the necessary date in the calendar.

To highlight the main tasks (i.e. the most important ones), you should set the corresponding priority for them. There are several ways to set a priority:

Press the Ctrl+PgUp keyboard shortcut
Click the Priority button in the task properties and set the necessary priority for the task

Viewing tasks for Today

After you make up the list of your tasks, specify their deadlines and set their priorities, you can get down to these tasks. To see what you have to do today, click the Today button located under the Calendar in the Navigator. After you select Today, the task tree will show tasks planned for today, tasks with no dates specified for them and overdue tasks. Thus the Today view shows all tasks that are to be dealt with today. And you do not have to view previous days in order not to forget anything. All necessary tasks will be in Today. If you move some task from Today to some future date, this task will be shown on that date and will not interfere with current tasks.

Achieve success together with LeaderTask!

Download free trial: http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

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