Urgency, in red
A deadline is closing and missing it hurts. This is the one that answers what goes wrong if the task is late.
Feature
Four things on a task decide what you do next.
How urgent the task is, how much it matters, what an hour of that work is worth, and a purple star for the days when you already know what matters most. Add the deadline you set and Easier Now works out the order for you.
Importance, in blue
The task moves you towards something you actually want: impact, revenue, or growing as a person.
Pay grade, in green and yellow
What this hour of work is worth, or what it would cost to hand it to somebody else.
The priority star, in purple
Star a task and it sorts ahead of everything unstarred, for the days when you already know what matters most. The three marks still set the order inside each group.
How it works
What decides the order
The three marks, the star and the deadline you set. Nothing else. Keep setting those as you add work, and the top of the queue is always the right thing to be doing.
What comes next
Four things on a task decide the order.
How urgent the task is, how much it matters, what an hour of that work is worth, and a purple star for the days when you already know what matters most. Set those, add the deadline, and Easier Now works out where the task lands in the queue.
- Urgency Red What goes wrong if this is late? A deadline is closing, and missing it costs you something real.
- Importance Blue Does this get me somewhere I want to go? The task moves you towards a core goal: impact, revenue or your own growth.
- Pay grade Green and yellow Should I be the one doing this? What this hour of work is worth, or what it would cost to hand over.
- Priority star Purple Is this the one thing, today? A toggle, not a fourth score. Anything starred sorts ahead of anything unstarred, and the three marks still set the order inside each group.
What an hour of that work is worth
Five tiers, set on the task. The higher the tier, the more it costs to hand the work to somebody else, so the more it matters that you are the one doing it.
- $10an hour Admin Tidying, data entry, simple errands
- $100an hour Value Agency-level work, serious project work, specialist tasks
- $1,000an hour Strategy Consultant-level calls, fundamental business decisions
- $10,000an hour Leadership Speaking on camera, industry events, pivotal calls
- $100,000an hour Executive Foundational decisions, managing cost structures
About the top two tiers. They hold more than money. They also hold the things nobody can do for you at any price: eating, showering, playing music. High value is not the same as high status.
The two tiers that are not about money
The five paying grades are not the whole scale. There is a tier under all of them for work that actively costs you money, and a neutral tier for work that does neither. Both are on the same control as the rest, and a task set to either of them still sorts on urgency, importance and the deadline.
The badges on the card
The impact marks sit in the bottom right. The pills along the meta row above them tell you where the task stands in time.
+2h,+7m,+4wis how far behind the task is running. It is an overrun, not a duration.- Next to it sits the deadline itself: “Today”, “Jun 26”, “Jul 24”.
- A deadline still ahead of you is purple. A deadline that has passed is red.
- The time pill also says whether the task is strict, and so anchored to its time, or flexible and free to move.
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