Now / next / later
Give cards, notes, tokens, or running state a labelled place on the page.
A preset of zones. Attribution: Traditional. Licence: idea; no restriction.
Variants
- default
Data fields
The fields a spec's page can set for this component (see switchback show now-next-later --json):
zones
Grounding
Helps: when a list of work needs sorting by horizon and "later" is allowed to stay vague; the preset adds no claim beyond the zones
Backfires: when "next" becomes a second "now" and nothing is truly deferred
- CItems placed inside the same bounded region are perceived as belonging together, even against other grouping cues, so labelled zones make category membership readable at a glance.Wagemans et al. (2012)