Priority
Priorities are important!
In todo.txt, priority is more important than due date in terms of identifying which tasks you should perform next.
Todo.txt uses capital letters to denote priorities. That means there are 27 priority values (A-Z and no priority), which is far more than you probably need.
This is how I recommend to assign priority values:
| Priority | Meaning |
|---|---|
(A) |
The current task you are working on |
(B) |
Your next action |
(C) |
Tasks you plan to do today |
(D) |
Tasks you plan to do this week |
(E) |
Tasks you plan to do next week |
| no priority | everything else |
Of course, you can come up with your own system of assigning priorities.
I also recommend changing task priorities very frequently. I always want the tasks I plan to working on next to be sorted, by priority, to the top of my task list. To make sure that always is the case, I increase or decrease the priority of various tasks each time I review my task list.