Priority Selection

With Matalot, you can assign a priority to both tasks and categories. When filtering relevant tasks, Matalot takes into account the priority of tasks and their categories. A task's priority is defined as the priority defined for the task plus the priority of its most relevant category.

While building Matalot we realized there are several types of priority patterns you may use for your tasks:

• A 1-10 scale, like iCal uses.
• A 1-100 scale for people with more exact needs.
• A Word pattern such as Low, Medium, High.
• Occasionally, a super urgent task will come in that must be done As Soon As Possible, which must get the highest priority possible.

In order to let you decide which pattern works best for you, and even combine some or all of these patterns together, we built from the ground up the priority wheel.

The priority wheel was inspired by the iPod's click wheel. You can spin your finger around the priority wheel and choose from a wide range of priority numbers. From -75 to 100 to be exact.

But as we said, you might prefer to use words rather than numbers. For that, Matalot assigns a different word, called a preset, every 25 priority points. -75 is named as “Forget About It”, while 100 names “Life or Death”. Numbers between these presets are presented as the closest preset, but are still respected while calculating relevance.

If we need to quickly move between presets, you can simply touch the center of the priority wheel. Doing so will reveal two arrows on the sides, which while sliding your finger on, will move one preset up or down.

For users who prefer only number priorities, there's an option to prefer number values. Just go to Settings > Matalot and set Prefer number values to ON.