This possible mini-project is about the perfect semantic task manager. Your brain, as a knowledge worker, is your capital. How to use it best to accomplish your goals?

We brainstormed about this at lunch yesterday and came up with a number of ideas:

  • the planner schould distinguish between "easy tasks" that can be done just after lunch, when you're tried and tasks that require you to be very fit.
  • if you have two tasks with a deadline in two weeks, and each tasks requires 1 week of work, then the planner should not allow you to schedule more tasks
  • tasks might have dependencies
  • you can work more than usual - but only for a week, otherwise you might burn out
  • you have diverse goals to reach
  • sometimes new tasks pop-up suddenly and disturb your plan
  • some tasks might get postponed again and again - the planner should tell you that
  • you should become better and better in estimating task duration
  • /!\ users hate to enter too much data

Where is the sweet spot of data entry/user interface and the benefit to maximally use your brain?