7 ways to schedule your tasks
to adapt them to your needs
Far away were the automations that without any criteria were systematically executed every several hours, minutes or days. Although there are scenarios where it is necessary, in others, such as trying to share or communicate information, it can be from inefficient to annoying at worst.
Do you want to know how to schedule tasks according to your particular needs? Then you are interested in knowing these 7 ways to program tasks according to ranges and time zones, days of the week, months of the year or even according to intervals with greater or lesser degree of precision.
1. Time Range
The time range determines a time range between a start time and an end time. For example, the night time range includes the time range between 22 and 6 hours.
2. From a date
The task can be run as often as you choose, but will do so once the date you’ve set is reached. Schedule tasks to fire when the time is right.
3. According to the time zone
Does your task take into account the country or the time slot you are in? If so, or if you want to adapt it to the time zone of your target audience, you can leave it indicated.
Automating based on dates is also possible.
Depending on the day of the month, the day of the week or only the months of the year you decide.
4. According to the days of the week
Maybe you want your tasks to also rest on weekends or only run on certain days.
5. According to the days of the month
The execution of a task can be even more punctual and be subject to certain calendar days. In other cases you may need them to be executed at the beginning, end of the month or both.
Using ranges and intervals you can establish a performance schedule limited to a specific medium, channel or audience, such as a scheduled task to publish content on social networks, exclusively from Monday to Friday, between 8 and 12 hours during the summer months.
6. According to the months of the year
Tasks with a seasonal component, tasks whose scope of action is limited to certain months of the year or tasks that must be carried out at different intervals: quarterly, semi-annually, ...
7. At irregular intervals
Humanizes the task. Even respecting any of the previous rules, it gives the task a certain degree of flexibility to finish choosing the exact moment. It will be perceived as a more natural behavior.
The use of irregular intervals is especially indicated to publish or share content on social networks. The result is achieved away from the precision of an algorithm and is closer to the natural behavior of users.