From the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism
comes a daily planner that deploys the power of time blocking to help
you focus on what's important in an increasingly distracted world.
Time blocking is a time management method long used by some of the
world's most effective people, from Elon Musk to Bill Gates, and
promoted by some of the smartest thinkers in productivity, from Peter
Drucker to Benjamin Franklin. Its core idea is that a task list is not
enough to make the most of your limited time. You should instead
partition your working hours into blocks assigned to specific
activities. In doing so, you can more easily protect hours for deep
work, while batching shallow tasks into efficient sprints. The clarity
of these blocks also encourages you to focus intensely on one thing at a
time, resisting the distracting allure of inboxes, social media, and
idle web surfing.
For fifteen years, author Cal Newport has been extolling the benefits of
time blocking. Now for the first time, this system has been captured in
a daily planner that makes it easy for anyone to implement these ideas
in their own professional life.
The Time-Block Planner opens with an introduction from Newport to
guide you through the basics of effective time blocking. Ninety days'
worth of time-blocking pages follow, each divided into a grid that
simplifies both building daily schedules and easily updating them as
circumstances change. Weekly planning pages supplement the daily
planning pages, each including a big idea about productivity from
Newport, inspiring you to think deeply about the week ahead. A shutdown
box sits at the top of each page so you can physically and
psychologically end your workday with a check of the box--a ritual
widely employed by many of Newport's longtime readers.
You already know what work really matters. The Time-Block Planner will
help you push aside distractions and other peoples' demands for your
time, and focus on accomplishing more of these deep efforts than you
ever thought possible.
