The minimum record for unfinished work
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Preserve the next action and its conditions—not just a title and a due date.
Prepare the record
Leave an action, not a mystery.
Make ownership, dependencies, repeat rules and open decisions understandable.
Make ownership, dependencies, repeat rules and open decisions understandable.
6 practical guides
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A status is not a next action
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A useful status groups work. The next action tells the receiving person what to do.
Map the dependency before moving the deadline
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Show what genuinely blocks completion, then check what a date change would affect.
Define what a repeating task actually repeats
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Separate the recurring rule, this occurrence and the evidence that this occurrence is finished.
Keep the pending decision with the work
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Record the question, decision owner and affected work before it disappears into a chat thread.
Give context one dependable home
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Point to the current approved context; several competing copies make cover harder.