Cyclic tasks

 As the name says, a cyclic task appears for completion every so often. About many of them it can be written that they must be performed in order for life to proceed according to the current rhythm, and any omission will become a source of complications.

 Such tasks will include, for example, the annual tax declaration, the periodic inspection of the car, regular control of our health. Cyclical tasks also include, for example, monthly business-related declarations, various assessment meetings, fees, subscriptions and so on. 

It is important that all tasks are shown on the TargetNavigator board. 

Of course, they can also be saved as reminders in the electronic calendar. But regardless, they should appear on the board. 

In previous posts, we showed that to-do tasks were presented as circles. In contrast, we present cyclic tasks as rectangles. It is evident that the reverse arrangement, is also possible. Whether cyclic tasks will be circles and standard tasks will be rectangles is entirely up to individual user preference. The idea is to achieve a clear visual difference between tasks of different types.

Cyclic tasks can be further differentiated by color. We use the following color code: 

- tasks occurring less frequently than once a year (such as document renewal) have cards in blue with medium saturation. 

- tasks occurring 1x a year- also have a blue color, but lighter. 

- tasks occurring periodically several times a year( but not every month), are in the lightest shade of blue. Examples of such tasks are, for example, garden maintenance work, fertilizing, pruning, etc.

- tasks occurring every month, are green in color, with medium intensity. 

- tasks occurring more than once a month, such as every week or two: they also have a green color, but lighter. 

- the brightest green color is marked by tasks that occur periodically every day. As a general rule, tasks repeated daily, after a while, become habits. However, there are periods in our lives when the rhythm changes significantly, such as when we take vacations. Then work-related habits will not take place ( or at least according to us, should not take place), which may result in their weakening or even abandonment. That's why we write in cyclical daily tasks, so that we don't have to remember them without worrying about completing them.

Below in the illustration we show all the described colors of cyclic tasks.

 

Cyclic tasks are subject to the same flow of realization as standard tasks. So that the original card of a cyclic task is not definitely removed from the board, we use a copy of such a task for processing. And we move this current copy around the board according to the workflow, so that it is finally removed after the task is completed in a given cycle.