What Processed Means

“Processed” means you have: 1) decided the next step, 2) decided (roughly) when you will do it, AND 3) put it in its home.

What Processed Means

Processed tasks show up properly in your lists, poised and ready for action at the right time. Until then, they are out of your way. Until they are fully processed, tasks appear in your Unprocessed Tasks list.

What Processed Means

Specifically, to be counted as processed, tasks need (at least): a major context, and a soft date or Someday/Maybe. It should also include (as needed): 1-1 contexts or automatic delegation tracking, meeting contexts, action contexts, task notes, and a few next steps...

What Processed Means

When properly configured, Outlook keeps tasks in your Unprocessed Tasks view until they have a category and a date of some kind (Someday/Maybe and Do Today both count as dates). Templates are treated as processed.

About Processing

“Processing” means choosing a next step, contexts, and dates for a task. “Re-processing” is processing after each step in a project.