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8 articles on Time blocking, from the people building UnaTask.

Eleven minutes: what a working day actually looks like

In 2005 three researchers followed twenty four office workers with stopwatches. The numbers they came back with explain more about your week than any productivity advice you have ever been given.

Time blocking is four techniques wearing one name

Task batching, day theming, timeboxing and deep work solve four different problems. Most people who bounced off time blocking were using the right one for a week they were not having.

How long a block should be, and the 60 percent rule

Two sizes cause most of the failures: the block that is too short to be a block, and the day that is too full to be a day. The second is why people quit in week two.

A task manager for solo developers that speaks GitHub

When you are the whole team, context switching is the tax. Keep the task, its pull request, and the time block to work on it in one place, and let the plan follow the repo instead of fighting it.

Why your to-do list keeps lying to you

On Monday the list felt like a plan. By Friday it was longer than when you started. The list wasn’t the problem, it was that the list never knew what a day can hold.

Time blocking for teams: the 20 minute setup

Most people try time blocking alone, in a private calendar, and quietly give up. It works far better as a team sport. Here’s the setup, in about twenty minutes.

Time blocking vs the usual task apps

List apps are great at sorting work and blind to time. Calendar apps are great at meetings and blind to tasks. Time blocking is just the honest admission that you need both in one place.

How to plan a day you can actually finish

The to do list lies about how much fits in a day. Here is the small habit that turns a wishlist into a schedule.

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