| Yes. When I first got into color coding, it was mostly for work purposes and I used a simple model that was about the type of event... meetings blue, external/customer red, 1:1s green, etc. But as time went on, I realized to (try to) be an effective leader what really mattered was the underlying goals of how I spent my time. So I switched to a model where I tried to associate every event on the calendar with goals/projects... Ship Feature X was blue, New Pricing Model was red, Hiring New PM was green, etc. The challenge with that model is, as is often the case in time-management, finding goals/projects that have enough "staying power" that you're not changing the entire list every week, but also that aren't so generically evergreen that they don't inform the way you think about how you spend your time. These days I use mostly event type (what I started with) but layer in 1-2 key projects that "override" the color type so that they stand out and I remind myself to focus primarily on those. FWIW, some of these ideas have found their way into my startup and will continue to do so: https://reclaim.ai |