priority and weight of tasks!! can sort through this on notion for free, would be great if that could be reflected in sunsama instead of having to do it separately in notion or in written plan

I want to bump this topic. It seems at odds with the mission of Sunsama and I appreciate the slowness in adoption, or the complete rejection of the idea. If you do implement this it should be slow and an ‘advanced’ feature. I say ‘advanced’ in that it comes after the core parts of Sunsama are achieved and only if it can be implemented in a way that doesn’t violate core principles.

Sunsama is supposed to be a confluence of someone’s flow so that is gives that someone a way to be in deep focus rather than bouncing between and across 5 apps.

I think maintaining the Sunsama philosophy and principles is necessary in considering this feature. Too many products focus on enterprise for business and not for the person. Sunsama resists the urge to become a hodgepodge of corporate interest features. The humanism is what works for me. But indeed, there is a version of this that I could greatly use.

If there was a feature like this it shouldn’t be a grand, global feature. What task you flag as important for today, or a future day, is not necessarily important then, much less after the current day ends. Things change and having to actively change the priority of something does not feel good to me. So therefore when the day comes and passes, just as auto-archiving pulls tasks off your list, Sunsama should pull the priority marker off so you can review its priority, in addition to its presence in Sunsama at all. I surely don’t want a mess of tasks and priorities like a lot of other apps become. Sunsama has solved this for me.

If it is done, it should be a subtle UI that serves a purpose, too. Theres too many icons. Maybe using a highlighting effect that doesn’t command your attention but is noticeable on a pro-longed glance. Sort of like a post-it but without the intense color. I have personally ran into this where, for whatever reason, I need something to be ‘freshened’ up in my list of things. In the physical world I will go rewrite, underline or circle something on my dry erase board. Or, I will write it on a post it note and stick it in a random place on my desk. So an idea in the digital world would be to right click on a task to flag, it prompts you to retype (or edit your task name - you have to retype it to flag it), it flags it subtly and decays over time. I think something like that is more in line with Sunsama philosophy and personally solves a problem I have with digital systems (vs physical systems).

Thanks for reading if you did.

I see you guys are working hard on many updates and improvements. But why not on the top voted feature request? I guarantee you, you're loosing users on this when people are researching for a new task manager.

I don't know how to upvote this, but FOR REAL - i have like 100 tasks today and i have to sort through every time i add new ones to determine the level of importance.

Priority, weight, anything to be able to auto sort on tasks, and visually indicate higher vs lower priority task. Could even help you schedule your day and get the smaller ones done. I know i have x meetings, and i can do x y and z done between but not the higher priority. etc.

Thank you

yes with card color coding would be amazing!

I would love to see swim lanes on the kanban board.

Currently, the kanban board covers the urgency dimension of the Eisenhower matrix. Tasks move from not urgent to urgent as days pass by. A second dimension for priority would be nice. I am thinking of swim lanes for "must", "can" and "unprioritized".

When in doing mode, I could check all the musts for today. When those tasks are finished I can decide whether to continue on urgent but not important tasks for today or rather start working on my important tasks for tomorrow already.

In my daily planning I could focus on priorizing and/or deferring unpriorized tasks first. If the workload for today is too high I, I'll find those tasks that I can defer easily in the "can" swimlane.

I think that this would reduce the time that I use for scanning through tasks.

I don't need multiple priority levels but maybe the ability to "flag" tasks to pin them to the top of views. Instead of pinning it to the top because that would break ordered prioritization, you could add a small header that says there are priority tasks in the column with the ability to jump to them or quickly open them.

Another good solution - you already have the "Filter" button at the top of views. You could add "tags" to tasks, expand on Filter to support filtering by tags, and add the option to create "Quick Filters" which display a combination of filtered channel(s) and tag(s). This solution is more flexible and allows me to create bespoke workflows that span tasks in multiple Contexts and Channels.

For example, I could create a tag for "AFK" meaning this task can be completed on my phone from anywhere. When I'm sitting in a long car ride, I can view all tasks with this tag and start tackling them.

For prioritization, I can create a tag "priority". The main difference from channels is that tags can span multiple Contexts. For now, I've created a "priority" channel under both "work" and "personal" contexts but I can't view them both at the same time. If you don't want to add tags, you could at least implement Filtering by multiple channels at once (multi-select). I still think creating "Quick Filters" is a great idea in this scenario.

I'm not a fan of priority classifications. I moved from clickup to sunsama to avoid a cluttered interface where things like priority classifications quickly became out of date without keeping on top of them all the time.

But lots of users are calling for this and I just wanted to make a small request to make it possible, if implemented, to turn priority levels or or off in the settings. That would help give more capabilities just to those who need it.

Ability to see all tasks on a priority matrix (e.g., Eisenhower) or lists (e.g., Moscow method) or Effort vs Return

This really is a must. a high priority task should be listed at the top to help organize including when rolling to the next day. It would also be good in addition to high and medium priority to also have a waiting on so an app is color coded if you are waiting on a response.