What is My priority?

My priority helps you focus on the tasks that deserve attention by asking two simple questions:

Is this important?
Is this urgent?

Is there a deadline around?

Rather than trying to classify every task in your life, My priority keeps three useful groups visible: Important and urgent, Important, and Urgent.

Tasks that are neither important nor urgent remain available elsewhere in CROSSNote, but they do not need to occupy your priority view.

The goal is not to turn every day into a race to complete more things. It is to help you notice what really needs your attention, what deserves deliberate space, and what may need action before it becomes a problem.

Today’s Attention

Priority is not only about importance and urgency. Time matters too.

Today’s Attention brings together the commitments that need your attention now. A task may appear because it is a priority planned for today, or because it has a deadline today.

This gives you a practical view of what is relevant now without changing the task’s underlying priority.

Today focuses on what needs attention today.

This Week lets you look ahead at the rest of the week, bringing together upcoming priority tasks and deadlines before they become easy to miss.

The idea is simple: important commitments are easier to manage when you can see not only what matters, but also when it needs your attention.

Keeping important things visible

For many people, especially those with ADHD, autism, or AuDHD, something can be genuinely important and still become easy to lose track of when it is not visible.

My priority gives important commitments a dedicated place where they can remain present.

Instead of relying only on memory, notifications, or a long unstructured task list, you can return to a clear view of what still needs care.

This is not about creating pressure or treating every unfinished task as a failure.

It is about reducing the risk that something meaningful disappears simply because life became busy, overwhelming, or full of other demands.

By keeping tasks visible through their level of importance, urgency, and current attention, CROSSNote helps you return to them when you are ready to decide what happens next.

Important and urgent

Tasks in Important and urgent need attention soon and have real significance.

These may include deadlines, difficult conversations, practical problems, essential work, health-related matters, or something that has become urgent because it was delayed for too long.

This section can help you see what truly needs to be handled now.

At the same time, it can also help you notice when too many things are becoming urgent. That is often a sign that your time, energy, or planning may need more care.

Important

Tasks in Important matter, even if they do not need to be completed immediately.

This is often where the things that shape your life over time belong: meaningful projects, health, relationships, learning, preparation, creativity, rest, and long-term responsibilities.

These tasks can be easy to postpone because they are not always urgent.

But they are often the things that deserve deliberate space before they become a crisis.

Urgent

Tasks in Urgent need attention because time matters, even when they are not among your most important commitments.

This can include interruptions, requests, messages, administrative demands, or things that need a response because somebody else needs them quickly.

Seeing these tasks separately can help you decide whether to do them, delegate them, limit them, or simply avoid giving them more attention than they deserve.

A clearer relationship with your commitments

Priorities are not fixed facts.

A task can change as circumstances change. Something that was important but not urgent may become urgent later. Something that once felt essential may stop being relevant. Something you thought could wait may turn out to need care sooner than expected.

My priority gives you a way to review these choices without treating them as permanent judgments.

Today’s Attention adds a second perspective: what needs your attention now or during the rest of this week.

The point is not to classify your whole life perfectly.

It is to make your commitments more visible, so you can decide what deserves your time, attention, and energy.