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The four axes of attention.
A deadline carries one underlying fact, its date. Everything else you do to it is an operation on a separate axis. I kept them separate because collapsing them destroys signal.
Past five, the threshold.
Most productivity advice is written for the early part of the load curve. It works for a week with 3 deadlines on it. It quietly breaks above 5, and almost nobody names the threshold.
Why a calendar isn't enough.
The block diagram of a Tuesday is the right rendering for synchronous meetings. It's the wrong rendering for a Tuesday-and-Wednesday density ending in a Friday delivery. That's what deadlines actually are.
The re-sort cost.
The cost of a re-sort isn't the minute it takes. The cost is that this happens 10 or 15 times in a normal week, in the background of every other thing you did. Nobody else sees it. You don't either.
Why Deadlinewatch has no formula chain.
An automatic score implies the system has expertise it does not have. A user who follows a bad ranking blames the tool and stops trusting it. The honest move is to render the shape and let the human decide.