Moon-Jumper Pitch

This is the pitch video for Moon-Jumper Tasks.

Pitch

Moon-Jumper tasks is not a To-Do list. Moon-Jumper tasks is way to manage your tasks so that they remain organized and at any point it can present you with a short list of things that you could work on now.

Let's start by looking at why to-do lists work and why they fail. To-do lists are fantastic when they are started, but their effectiveness tends to drop off over time. That's because we tend to start a task list when we have a few crucial things that we need to remember and figure out the right order. A simple to-do list is great for this. But when that succeeds, we start piling things on. Instead of a few well defined tasks that need to get done, we start adding bigger more nebulous tasks. And things that we might not be able to work on right away. Eventually the list grows so long that it's cumbersome to pick something off it. Then we start skipping it for simple tasks, it's easier to just do them then add them to the list.

Moon-Jumper provides a collection of tools to help avoid these pitfalls, as well as some tools to help with general productivity (and avoiding procrastination). This is both a system (a way of thinking and working) and a tool.

Tasks

Let's start with "What is a task?". A task should be something that you can do. It should be small (preferably Atomic) and specific.

Something like "Empty Dishwasher" is a good task, it's specific. But "Setup Party" is not, better would be a small task for each step in setting up a party. We'll discuss that more when we get to groups. "Clean Garage" may or may not be ok. If your garage is pretty clean and you just need to put a few things away and maybe sweep, that's fine, but if cleaning the garage is going to take a few hours, it might be better to break it down into a few steps. We'll touch on this idea throughout, but it's one of the key techniques.

Beyond the definition of what a task is, a task will always have a title, and it can have notes. If you put a link in your notes, that link will open in a new tab. If you use hashtags, they will be available to help find tasks.

Points

The next important idea is points. The biggest limits in figuring out what can get done, and in particular, what can get done today, is the limits on time and energy. Points is a fuzzy combination of the two. For most tasks, it's just time. A task that takes 5-15 minutes is a 1 point task, 15-25 is 2 points and so on up to a 1 hour task is a 6 point task. But something that will take 10 minutes but is either physically or mentally strenuous or just something you really dislike can be bumped up to a 2 or even a 3 point task.

This gives us a meter of how much effort we can expect to put in each day.