How to Defer Dates

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@scottjohnson, Your issues are all address in my article here:

Your Simple (or Advanced) Strategy for Asana’s My Tasks

That covers an updated version of My Tasks Asana released several years after your post!

@anon23352771, I totally agree with you, and I strongly recommend to make a different distinction in setting Due dates, as described in my Forum Leaders Tip here:

Use Due Dates Differently in Public and Private

What do your Due dates mean? I bet at times yours have very different actual meanings. That’s ok, but only if you are sticking to a workable policy, such as the example below. In private (in My Tasks with private tasks or in my own private projects) I often set Due dates for use with Rules (formerly auto task promotion) so I make sure I get reminders and nothing falls through the cracks. The Due date represents the day I’d like to be reminded, perhaps to follow up on the task or to begin workin…

A related point, in case you use dependencies, is to include a rule in your My Tasks to “promote” a task to “Now” or “Today” section if it should become unblocked, so you can see that there’s something new for you to potentially work on.

I hope those help,

Larry