| Time blocking with pen and paper. Simple, fast and has revision history built in. - Start with your fixed time commitments: meetings, commute, lunch etc. - Then it's a matter of balancing the quicker tasks with the "meatier" project work. - I'll usually have two blocks for faster tasks, email backlogs etc. - Then you look at your project list and allocate as much time as you can to these bigger things. Once you've drawn up your day, you follow it like a calendar. Things will inevitably change during the day: some things take longer than you planned, urgent things pop up. The beauty here is that you then have to redraw the rest of the day's blocks, so you're forced to make a conscious decision on what gets cut. I got this from Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", which I highly recommend, but you can also read about the method in this short blog post he wrote https://calnewport.com/deep-habits-the-importance-of-plannin... |