Time-Blocking Techniques Overview

"A 40 hour time-blocked work week, I estimate, produces the same amount of output as a 60+ hour work week pursued without structure."

— Cal Newport, Author of Deep Work

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How do you balance the necessary evils of meetings, email, team, chat and busy work with focused time? Since becoming a digital hermit isn't an option for most of us, it's important to concentrate on strategies to help focus in a world designed to distract us.

What is Time Blocking?

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Time blocking is a time management method to divide the day into blocks of time. Each block dedicated to accomplishing a set of specific tasks. Instead of keeping an open-ended to-do list of things you'll get to as time allows, start each day with a concrete schedule that lays out what you'll work on and when.

Weekly Reviews

An important aspect of this is reviewing how the current week has gone, time-management-wise, and to refine the process and plan for the next week.

Task Batching

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The Pommodoro Granular Time Blocking Technique

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References

• This document itself gets referenced in the Time Management Tips Overview
• Time Blocking Methods (from Todoist)
• Complete Guide to Deep Work (from the Doist blog by Fadeke Abegbuyi)