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id: KB-TD-001
url: https://app.codecontract.io/help/day-to-day/where-to-start-each-morning
idioma: en
categoria: trabajo-diario
subcategoria: bandeja
audiencia: usuario
nivel: basico
actualizado: 2026-08-13
tambienEn: [es]
relacionados: [KB-TD-002, KB-TL-008, KB-TD-013]
citadoPor: [KB-TD-002, KB-TD-003, KB-TD-006, KB-TD-008, KB-MA-010, KB-TD-011, KB-TD-015, KB-TD-018, KB-TD-020, KB-TD-004]
---

# Where to start each morning

_Five minutes that order the day, in the order that works._

**Responde a:** what do i look at first · how do i organise my day on the platform · where to start each day · daily working routine

Signing in and browsing "to see what there is" is the fastest way to lose half an hour without closing anything. This order does the opposite: urgent first, what someone is waiting on next, and your own work last.

## The order that works

1. **What has arrived** — What was delivered or signed since yesterday. Approving or rejecting on the spot stops it piling up.
2. **What is blocking you** — What cannot move without you. It is usually little and usually quick.
3. **What is stuck** — Filter by age, not by count. Two or three calls achieve more than twenty emails.
4. **Your own work** — What you start yourself. It goes last deliberately: start here and the rest never happens.

| When | What you look at | How long |
| --- | --- | --- |
| On signing in | What arrived since yesterday | Five minutes |
| Monday | Anything stuck over two weeks | Half an hour |
| Month end | What expires next month | Ten minutes |

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Approving or rejecting the moment something arrives saves the most time over the long run. A document reviewed today costs a minute; the same document three weeks later costs reconstructing what it was about.

> [!WARNING]
> Do not start with what has been stuck longest. It weighs the most and moves the least, and burns the half hour before you have touched anything urgent.

> [!NOTE]
> If you do not know what to look at on signing in, ask the assistant what is stuck. It returns something actionable with no filters configured.

**Can I see only my own?**

Yes, by filtering on owner.

**Will it alert me if something urgent arrives?**

Alerts are configurable; keep few and make them matter.

**What if I have hundreds of cases?**

Then order matters more, not less: always filter before looking.

## Ejemplos

**Someone signs in each morning and browses until something demands attention.**

- Adopts the order: arrived, blocking, stuck, own

→ Closes in twenty minutes what used to eat the morning in fragments.

**Every morning the twenty-three active files are opened to see which moved.**

- Filters by what is waiting on your side
- Lets the rest run untouched
- Reviews separately, once a week, what has been stalled too long

→ The daily review goes from half an hour to two minutes, and nothing is lost.

**The day starts with whatever landed in the inbox.**

- Starts with what is blocking somebody else

→ The work that unblocks goes out first.

**Everything is reviewed and nothing is closed.**

- Closes what is only awaiting confirmation

→ The list goes down instead of repeating.

**The urgent gets handled and the important never arrives.**

- Reserves a fixed slot for what expires in weeks

→ What expires stops turning into urgent.

**Nobody knows what is waiting on whom.**

- Separates what waits inside from what waits outside

→ Each list has a different action.