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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.

Work-in-progress limit

In the settings, configure when Lunatask should tell you that you have too much unfinished work.

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This feature is available in our Kanban workflow, where it counts the number of tasks marked In Progress, as well as in the Now / Later workflow, where it tracks tasks placed in the Now section.

When you reach the limit, you can still start or add new tasks, but a message will show at the top of the list to notify you.

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