1. Respect How Our Minds Work
Prioritize by comparing two at a time
- We are not good at assigning an absolute score to individual list items.
- We’re slightly better at stack-ranking.
- We excel at comparing things.
The app asks: “Of these two tasks, which one is more important?”
This is a natural, intuitive question. It doesn’t demand a complex internal rating system; it’s a simple, honest choice.
This process offloads the moving tasks up and down the list to the app.
No need to work with lists
When you work with Task Compass, you’re not working with lists, unless you ask for it.
- If there’s prioritization work left, you’re shown two tasks at a time.
- When prioritization is complete, the app shows you your #1 priority.
- You can swipe left-right to see your #2-#5 (configurable), one at a time.
2. Do the work only once
The app remembers your choices.
If you said that A is more important than B, the app will always put A above B in the ranking, until you reassess it.
As you keep using the app, it will ask you the minimal number of pairwise choices necessary.
Note: for those algorithmically inclined, it’s not the post-hoc minimum number. It’s the minimum number given the available information.