How the scanner orders open loops, most-urgent-first. The board renders this order directly, and the "Right now" hero is simply the top item.
Tweak this file to change what "urgent" means to you.
Urgent — act within 24–48h or something breaks.
- Hard deadlines (applications, payments, renewals).
- Time-sensitive prep (an interview tomorrow, a meeting in an hour).
- Anything with a cost for waiting (a trial about to renew, a slot about to fill).
High — act this week.
- Active projects with momentum: keep them moving while they're warm.
- Commitments to other people (replies owed, follow-ups promised).
waitingitems whose nudge date arrived.
Normal — real, but no clock.
- Ongoing projects, drafts in progress, plans forming.
- The bulk of a healthy board lives here.
Low — the backlog.
- Nice-to-haves, someday/maybe, research rabbit holes.
- Never deleted, never nagged about. Visible at the bottom so they stop occupying headspace.
- Earlier
duedate first. - External commitment beats self-commitment (someone waiting on you outranks you waiting on you).
- Smaller next action first — a 5-minute win beats a 5-hour project when energy is scarce.
- Don't inflate: when everything is urgent, nothing is. Most items are normal; that's fine.
- Don't age items up automatically. An old normal item is still normal unless a deadline appeared.
- The user's explicit priority beats the rubric. If they said "this can wait," it waits.