Deadline Dates

Enter deadline dates right after the task name and/or project name. There, they advise but do not control you, like this:    Factory Proposal (4/30) – Verify funding (4/23) The “Verify funding” step has a hard deadline of 4/23 or the...

Hard Dates

In RTM, the Due Date is the hard date. You can enter a full date or a phrase like “today”, “tomorrow”, or “next thursday”.

Hard Dates

The date you must start a task—or bad things might happen. (Due Date in RTM. Only for “must do” tasks.)

Soft Dates

In Remember the Milk, Priority is the soft date: 1 = this week, 2 = next week, 3 = this month. If the task is farther out than that, use the sm tag (Someday/Maybe).

Soft Dates

Your first, best guess of when you want to do a task. (Priority in RTM: 1=this week, 2=next week, 3=this month. Required unless Someday/Maybe.)