Not to hijack your thread, I'll give this a try, but I've recently started using Sorted for this type of task management and the feature I find most important is the ability to shift the time blocks easily just by selecting them and scrolling the mouse cursor to defer them all to a later time by +30 minutes, +1 hour, etc.
Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
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#42Not to hijack your thread, I'll give this a try, but I've recently started using Sorted for this type of task management and the feature I find most important is the ability to shift the time blocks easily just by selecting them and scrolling the mouse cursor to defer them all to a later time by +30 minutes, +1 hour, etc.
I was just thinking about this actually because I had something cancelled in the afternoon and wanted to just move everything forward by two hours. We'll add it to the roadmap!
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#43> that way no one can schedule a meeting in your focus time. LOL. Oh my sweet summer child. I so wish I lived in your fantasy land where this was remotely true. My experience has been that everyone assumes their stuff is more important than your stuff, so you will reschedule your stuff to make way for their stuff. I’ve worked in a number of places professionally for 25 years and I’ve never seen different.
We generally mean with things like calendly, but this tends to work in smaller teams I've worked in. Not 100 percent of the time of course.
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#44Looks like it could be helpful but after spending over two minutes looking for pricing and not finding it I'll never know. I refuse to even try a product that won't be upfront about pricing. Don't 1) tell me I can get two months free, 2) offer to let me take a test drive or 3) ask for my email address before you've given me a chance to review your standard price model. I'm sure in the long run I am missing out on som…
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#45> that way no one can schedule a meeting in your focus time. LOL. Oh my sweet summer child. I so wish I lived in your fantasy land where this was remotely true. My experience has been that everyone assumes their stuff is more important than your stuff, so you will reschedule your stuff to make way for their stuff. I’ve worked in a number of places professionally for 25 years and I’ve never seen different.
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#46Time Blocking is a terrible name for the concept. Of the two ways you could interpret it, one makes you feel like Kronos the Lord of Time, and the other will make you hate your calendar/agenda and everything you put on there. What does not work: Blocking time. The world will not adapt to how you planned it last Sunday, and no amount of wanting, asking, or even demanding will make it so. Time is fluid, people are self…
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#47Just stop using a To Do List separate from the calendar itself. No need for an extra tool for this.
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#48Time Blocking is a terrible name for the concept. Of the two ways you could interpret it, one makes you feel like Kronos the Lord of Time, and the other will make you hate your calendar/agenda and everything you put on there. What does not work: Blocking time. The world will not adapt to how you planned it last Sunday, and no amount of wanting, asking, or even demanding will make it so. Time is fluid, people are self…
I’ve used time blocking for years, and it’s worked precisely to the extent that I actually used it, and the world assuredly adapted. I wasn’t suffering from a delusion that I could control how every minute of every day was utilized, however.
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#49I've been using reclaim.ai for time blocking and really liking it. One additional feature reclaim.ai has is "smart" 1:1s which help me to schedule recurring meetings with my team (which is super helpful with our WFH global team).
There seem to be several calendar management apps competing in this space right now, excited to see more productivity features being built from the competition.
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#50Related free tool (mine) : https://crushentropy.com/
It's like markdown for planning your day.