title: Task Tips and Best Practices sidebar_label: Best Practices description: Practical guidance for staying productive with tasks. sidebar_position: 10#

Task Tips and Best Practices#

Start with simple workflows: Don't over-organize initially. Use basic priorities and projects before adding contexts, tags, and dependencies.

Review regularly: Use task list daily to check pending work. Weekly reviews help catch stale tasks.

Use contexts for GTD: If following Getting Things Done, contexts help filter tasks by what you can do right now.

Project-based work: For complex initiatives, use projects to group tasks and dependencies to order work.

Time tracking for accountability: Even rough time tracking reveals where hours go and helps with estimates.

Recurrence for habits: Use recurring tasks for daily/weekly habits, but keep the list short to avoid clutter.

Tags for cross-cutting concerns: Use tags for themes that span projects: urgent, blocked, waiting-on-feedback, quick-win.

JSON output for scripts: Use --json flag with scripting to build custom reports and integrations.

For CLI command reference, run noteleaf task --help or explore the inline help on each subcommand.