Auto Plan

Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 11:20AM
Skoach Team

What does it do?

Auto plan tries to schedule all tasks in their proper time-blocks and date ranges. How it works. The Auto Plan first unschedules all non-fixed tasks. It then looks at the properties of each task (date range, duration, and time category) to determine the time-frame and relative (estimated) urgency of each task. As a task nears its deadline, its urgency rating increases daily. Skoach creates a prioritized list of your tasks for each category, for each day. Lastly, the Auto Plan uses these prioritized daily lists to schedule these tasks in their respective categories (in prioritized sequence).

Hint: You can adjust the gap between auto-scheduled tasks under preferences > general.

Hint: Tasks which are scheduled by Auto Plan are non-fixed, by default. If you want to keep such a task from being reshuffled later by Auto Plan, you may change it to Fixed (right-click on task > Make Fixed).

Hint: If you have too many tasks in a particular date-range (and not enough time in your time-blocks), then Auto plan will warn you that it cannot schedule some tasks. This usually means you have overbooked yourself! As you create tasks, keep an eye on the Commitment Bar to avoid over-committing.

Undo Auto Plan. Click on the Undo Auto Plan button. This will unschedule ALL non-fixed tasks. These tasks will continue to display in your task list under their previously-defined date ranges.

Warning: Other non-fixed tasks include appointments which you have manually reset to “Non-fixed”. These will also become unscheduled when “undo Auto Plan”.

 

Article originally appeared on Skoach (http://skoach.com/).