@danielpellarini

If you would be comfortable with following GTD, you typically would not have any overdue tasks. This is because with GTD you basically never enter any dates that you yourself can change all by yourself. You only enter dates that have been explicitly agreed with or decided by others - in other words, dates that you would need to renegotiate with others.

This makes it possible for you to be very flexible, and make the best use of each situation - the context, your energy, timing aspects and the task's priority.

@Folke

I'm not sure why you say that in GTD "You only enter dates that have been explicitly agreed with or decided by others", for me it's exactly the opposite, In any case, I thought it could be useful because it would give an extra level of priority which might come in handy now and then.

@danielpellarini

I am sorry if I had you confused. there are so many ways to deal with tasks. Date and time planning is very common, and Doit has many features for this, and maybe your suggestion is perfect for users who use time planning.

GTD is just one of many methods, but it is quite different. You simply avoid dates and scheduling etc as much as you can. Your Next actions list is the "main" list. You do use dates also, but only for "objective, external" things:
- Calendar actions: Appointments etc with other people (but not "appointments with yourself")
- Ticklers: "Impossible before": Usually these actions go to Next or Waiting on the "tickle" date
- Deadlines: Only if they are stipulated by others or agreed with others (no personal hopes or dreams or target dates)

The purpose of avoiding dates is not only to avoid a lot of unnecessary rescheduling work (fiddling with dates all the time) but also to stay open and flexible to how your situation changes. During each day you may have lots of new things and turbulence, and your energy and mood and location and everything can change suddenly when something happens. For some people, this constant fluidity is normal, and then GTD is often better - you can use Doit's Contexts, Tags and Priorities to manage this, and use Scheduled for your ticklers. For other people, things can be very stable, and then extensive scheduling is not too bad, even if it is not the GTD way to make "appointments with yourself".

If you follow GTD. basically a task that is "overdue" is possibly "gone forever" and will definitely require at least some new additional action. A task that is overdue would be either a meeting that you have missed or a hard deadline that you have missed. In both cases you would have to take action and renegotiate a new time or a new deadline. It is not your decision alone to change the date.

Anyway, we all have our favorite methodologies. I just wanted to point out some of the merits of GTD. I wish you well. Merry Christmas.

@Folke

Oh ok now I see what you mean. Well, we'll see what the team comes back with :)

Thanks for the explanation and Merry Christmas to you too :)