PatTask

The due date arrives before you've decided when to start. Before you notice, deadlines are closing in from every side. So lay them all out, and decide when to do them and what matters. PatTask. A board you decide on, and move with your finger. ■ Three to ten days of tasks, on one board Each task is a bar from its start date to its due date, and the higher the lane, the more it matters. Today is always the left edge. All three are positions, not numbers, so you see them at once. ■ Judge on the board, and move things Drag a bar sideways and its dates move: the middle for the whole span, an end for one of the two. Up or down changes the lane. The date you'll land on appears above the bar. Move something and the picture changes: a day opens up, you notice it, and you move again. Past the due date a bar turns red — reschedule with your finger, with every other task's dates on the same…