Comments on: A few notes on Friday (and Thursday) planning

By: Connie C

Connie C — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:10:39 +0000

In reply to Laura Vanderkam. Thanks for clarifying.

By: Grateful Kae

Grateful Kae — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:10:24 +0000

I went to the chiropractor 2x/ week for 3 full months last summer (spoiler- it didn’t end up helping my back problems, so I spent a lot of time and money for “nothing” in the end….), and also did not love fitting in those additional 2x/ weekly appointments! At first I kept putting them during the work day, but as you say, that, obviously, disrupts the work day! I finally landed on doing one in the late morning time slot (so it could function as a break after a couple hours of work) and the other one in the 5:00 hour AFTER work. (This was summer, so the activity schedule was not exactly the whole “after school thing” at that time of year.) It’s tricky though to add in new, consistent appts like that!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:52:55 +0000

In reply to Connie C.. @Connie - it kind of depends on the day. Mostly I just use a general idea (work on this, then this, and make sure it's all done by the end of the day). But if the day has a lot of time specific stuff then I will block in time for specific tasks. I generally try to concentrate my time-specific stuff on a few days of the week to leave the others open because I do like having the sense of a general pot of time that is mine to play with!

By: Connie C.

Connie C. — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:26:07 +0000

Do you use time blocking in your planner? Or just a general idea for each day?

thanks!