# MoSCoW Method variant for daily todos Here’s the [[MoSCoW Method]] variant that I use to tag my todo list items: - H: Highlight (Hours) - M: Must (Minutes) - S: Should (Seconds) - C: Could (Milliseconds) - D: Delegate My [[Highlight of the day]] is the main thing that I really can/want to dedicate *hours* to. Next to that, I might have to spend (quite a few) minutes doing other things (i.e., "MUST" tasks), and I know that I’ll have to take care of those. If there are “SHOULD” items on my list, then I’ll try to take care of those if I manage to free up some time/energy, but I won’t go the extra mile to complete them all. I’ll rather push back (procrastinate even!). The “COULD” items are ideas more than anything else. Sometimes I’ll pick one of those to change my mind a bit, but they certainly don’t deserve much of my attention. I usually prefix each task with the tag and don’t add any numbers; the importance is determined by the order of my list items. For example, my list for today looks something like this: - H: TS Book, review chapter 6 comments - M: Prepare upcoming team meeting - M: Walk the dog - M: Make an appointment with… - S: Order new games on Philibert (I love board games… ^^) - C: Watch the new Star Wars movie My daily todo list serves as my guide throughout the day. I actually go a bit further and usually try to estimate how long I’ll spend on each task and imagine my day’s agenda, as proposed in Make Time. Note that the initial list is just a route plan, I usually course-correct as the day goes by and review in the evening to identify what went wrong, whether I felt productive, had enough energy throughout the day, etc Finally, since [[You don’t know what you don’t measure]], I also keep track of how I actually spend my time.