![]() Emergent and Supporting task = green highlight.Emergent task (but not Supporting) = yellow highlight.Supporting task (but not Emergent) = blue highlight.Now, in the Today’s Tasks section in the app, you can create one of four different task types (each denoted by a highlight color): So when we were building Momentum, we decided the daily planner’s tasks section should combine supporting and emergent tasks (for space efficiency, and for interconnecting those task categories). I didn’t love that, because for me it sorta broke the task-chunk-project connection. In the digital (PDF) version of the planners, I’d include these under Supporting Tasks (because they support a routine). It’s not a supporting task (unless you have a project associated with it… routines often don’t), and it’s not emergent, because you planned it. If you know that every Monday you collect and review metrics, that’s a task you need to set time aside for. And yet it’s something you need to do and planned the time today to do it. There’s also a third category of task that’s neither supporting nor emergent and doesn’t relate to a project chunk. ![]() Or even a task you meant to include in your 10-minute morning planning but forgot. ![]() Emergent tasks are unplanned but still important, like a request from your boss, or a customer service question to be researched and answered.They’re tied to that chunk, and help see that project chunk to done. Supporting tasks support a weekly project chunk.For the daily planner, it’s generally useful to think of a task as a “task block” of 15 minutes (ala the “task-sized verbs” of the 37 verbs ). As I planned my Monday, I was thinking about daily tasks and how they work in Momentum Planning. Even though the week is still my preferred planning horizon for getting stuff done, since we released Momentum in beta, the daily planner is growing on me. ![]()
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