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Okay. So something called 'tags' seem to feature quite prominently in tedium, but what are they? It's not completely obvious from their name is it, and sadly it's not all part of an online game of it...
You may have encountered tags in other places on the web, such as del.icio.us bookmarks, or Technorati, and tedium uses them in a similar way. And if you've never heard of them before, don't worry, by the end of this page you'll be a tag master.
Tags are basically a collection of keywords that apply to any or more of your tasks. Think of them as a set of categories, where each task can belong to more than one category at once, and you can define new categories whenever you like.
The list of tags which will be useful for you naturally depends on what sort of tasks you have. Hopefully some examples will give you some ideas of what tags you might want:
Use tags to group together all the tasks you need to do to complete a certain project:
Then you can easily see what remains for each project just by looking at all the tasks tagged with that project's tag.
If all the phonecalls you need to make are tagged with "phone" then you can pull up the list when you've got the phone in your hand, and then blitz through them all one after another.
About to head into town, or to visit your parents? Check the "town" or "parents" tag to make sure you haven't forgotten any errands you need to run, or things you must remember to take with you.
As you come across things you need to discuss with your boss, Jack, just add them to your list and tag them with "Jack". Then when you get together for your weekly one-on-one meeting you've got a ready-made list of issues to run through.
I have a "focus" tag which I use to mark any task I want to get done in the next couple of days. Then, once- or twice-a-week, I run through the list of all of my tasks and check that the right ones are on the focus list and add or remove the focus tag as necessary.
So most of the time I'm just looking at the list of tasks tagged with "focus", and my view isn't cluttered up with everything else.
The thing that makes tags better than projects, or contexts, or priority levels, is that they're flexible enough to be all of those things. All at once. You get to mix and match them in whichever way suits you best.