Work-in-progress limit

People love to start things, but we sometimes struggle to finish them. A work-in-progress limit is a feature designed to nudge you to complete the work you already started before taking on new work. This increases throughput and reduces the amount of work that is "nearly done" – it helps you work more efficiently.

In the settings, configure when Lunatask should tell you that you have too much unfinished work. By default, it is set to to three In progress tasks (in Kanban workflow) or in your Now section (in Now/Later workflow).

When you hit the limit, you are still allowed to start working on new tasks, but a message will show on the top of the list.

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You can configure the work-in-progress limit in the settings, or disable it altogether.