actualNoteContentPart: # On YouTube
  **Learn about task score here:**
  
  
  **Check out this video** explaining how to visualize task importance and urgency:
  
  
   
  
  Time is the great clarifier, the revealer of truths. Smart people say it, you feel it. Why not harness all that power to sift out the highest ROI prospects from your sprawling todo list? This is what makes Amplenote todo lists different from what you've tried before.
  
  Task Score is an optimization for the decision-making process. It clarifies the classic question, "what to focus on today?**"** by leveraging all your past selves to produce a sorted list of the tasks most deserving of your attention. Sprinkle in [a bit of note tagging](https://www.amplenote.com/help/five_recommendations_tag_hierarchy_naming) , and you'll get a sorted list of tasks, [relative to the place you're working](https://www.amplenote.com/help/inline_tags_note_reference_filtering) , or [the project you're working on](https://www.amplenote.com/help/work_on_tasks_in_project#How_do_nested%2Fhierarchical_tags_work%3F_How_can_I_manage_multiple_projects_with_them%3F) . 
  
  [Here's a blog post on what drove us to create Task Score](https://www.amplenote.com/classic_todo_lists_always_fail)  -- the tl;dr is "the natural end-state of a long-term task list is an unwieldy mess of broken promises, the mere thought of which can trigger recoil. Want to try something different?" Here's our proposition:
  
  
  Tasks marked as "Urgent," "Important" or "Quick" gradually shift upward. Not shown: How Amplenote also makes it very easy to snooze tasks for later.
  
  
  Task Score is derived from the following factors:
  **How many days has the note containing the task been opened**? The greater the count of days on which you have opened the task's note, the more incremental Task Score accumulates for its non-hidden tasks
  **Is it Urgent**? When a task is marked as Urgent, it's taken as an indication that your past self believed harm would come if this task wasn't completed within a couple days. Thus, Task Score [increments aggressively each day](https://images.amplenote.com/9ea3a192-fc32-11ea-a1e0-160c44ce3352/3d89d3a1-d237-447c-accb-1f37fa6780cf.png)  when the task is designated "Urgent ."
  **Is it Important**? When a task is marked as Important, it's taken as an indication that your past self believed this task corresponds with your short-term or long-term goals, thus is accumulates Task Score about 3x faster than a non-Important task.
  **Is it Due today**? If it's Due today (if it "starts today," in the parlance of the calendar), the task gets 10 extra points to enhance the likelihood it will percolate to the top of whatever lists it resides within
  **Was a Duration set**? If your past self bothered to choose a Duration for the task, that's a sign you thought the task was at least moderately important when you created it. If you indicated that the task could be done quickly, we interpret that as grounds to push the task up your list on behalf of showing tasks that could beget quick-hit productivity victories.
  **Is it blocking another task**? When Tasks A and B are blocked by Task C, the latter accumulates Task Score from those blocked by it.
  **Is there a ****deadline**** for it**? A task might have a start time that's distinct from its absolute deadline. If a user sets a deadline on a task, it earns 10 extra points on and after the day of its deadline. 
  
  Task Score thresholds are color-coded to help you see which have the highest value or are most urgent:
processedNoteContent: ---
  title: How does Task Score work?
  headers: # On YouTube
  ---
  On YouTube
  Learn about task score here:
  Check out this video
   explaining how to visualize task importance and urgency: Time is the great clarifier, the revealer of truths. Smart people say it, you feel it. Why not harness all that power to sift out the highest ROI prospects from your sprawling todo list? This is what makes Amplenote todo lists different from what you've tried before. Task Score is an optimization for the decision-making process. It clarifies the classic question, "what to focus on today? "
   by leveraging all your past selves to produce a sorted list of the tasks most deserving of your attention. Sprinkle in [a bit of note tagging](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   , and you'll get a sorted list of tasks, [relative to the place you're working](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   , or [the project you're working on](https://www.amplenote.com)`
   . [Here's a blog post on what drove us to create Task Score](https://www.amplenote.com)`
    -- the tl;dr is "the natural end-state of a long-term task list is an unwieldy mess of broken promises, the mere thought of which can trigger recoil. Want to try something different?" Here's our proposition: Tasks marked as "Urgent," "Important" or "Quick" gradually shift upward. Not shown: How Amplenote also makes it very easy to snooze tasks for later. Task Score is derived from the following factors:
  How many days has the note containing the task been opened
  ? The greater the count of days on which you have opened the task's note, the more incremental Task Score accumulates for its non-hidden tasks
  Is it Urgent
  ? When a task is marked as Urgent, it's taken as an indication that your past self believed harm would come if this task wasn't completed within a couple days. Thus, Task Score [increments aggressively each day](https://images.amplenote.com)`
    when the task is designated "Urgent ."
  Is it Important
  ? When a task is marked as Important, it's taken as an indication that your past self believed this task corresponds with your short-term or long-term goals, thus is accumulates Task Score about 3x faster than a non-Important task.
  Is it Due today
  ? If it's Due today (if it "starts today," in the parlance of the calendar), the task gets 10 extra points to enhance the likelihood it will percolate to the top of whatever lists it resides within
  Was a Duration set
  ? If your past self bothered to choose a Duration for the task, that's a sign you thought the task was at least moderately important when you created it. If you indicated that the task could be done quickly, we interpret that as grounds to push the task up your list on behalf of showing tasks that could beget quick-hit productivity victories.
  Is it blocking another task
  ? When Tasks A and B are blocked by Task C, the latter accumulates Task Score from those blocked by it.
  Is there a deadline for it
  ? A task might have a start time that's distinct from its absolute deadline. If a user sets a deadline on a task, it earns 10 extra points on and after the day of its deadline. Task Score thresholds are color-coded to help you see which have the highest value or are most urgent:
noteTitle: How does Task Score work?