Tasks -V- Events: Why there’s an important distinction.
Whenever I post a YouTube video about using a calendar, some viewers will inevitably comment, saying, “I wish I could connect my tasks to my calendar”.
I can promise you that you do not want to be able to do that. And the reason why so few companies build apps that allow you to do this is because they are protecting you from yourself.
There is a very clear distinction between a task and an event. An event needs to be done at a specific time on a given day — for example, an appointment with your doctor, a colleague/boss or a client.
A task, on the other hand, can be done at any time. You may want to do a specific task on a particular day, but when on that day you do it doesn’t matter. For example, booking your car for a service could be done at 9:30 am or 3:15 pm. The only thing that matters is booking your car for a service that day.
In the pre-digital age, we used to carry around large A5 or A4 desk diaries that showed the week over two pages. Two-thirds of the page was dedicated to your calendar, and at the bottom, there was space to add six tasks for the day.
