Some people have commented that they are thinking of staying with Do It Tomorrow rather than change permanently to Autofocus because one is more certain of getting important tasks done quickly.
I’m certainly not going to quarrel with anyone who uses DIT - it’s still an excellent system - but my own experience has been very different.
With DIT the maximum number of tasks I ever processed in one day would have been around 35-40. Of those probably 5 or less would have been “same day” tasks. There would also frequently have been days on which I didn’t get through the list and had to carry tasks forward to the next day.These would probably average out at about 5 tasks. So the speed of movement for DIT would have been something like this:
Day 1 5 tasks
Day 2 30 tasks
Day 3 onwards 5 tasks
Total: 40 tasks
With Autofocus the spread is different. Taking a typical day last week, the breakdown was:
Day 1 25 tasks
Day 2 30 tasks
Day 3 onwards 11 tasks
Total: 66 tasks
Autofocus not only is capable of dealing with a higher volume of tasks than DIT, but also has a faster average response time per item (1.3 days, as compared to 1.5 days for DIT).