Diarized

Glossary

Time blocking

Time blocking is the practice of giving every piece of work a specific slot in your calendar, rather than keeping it on a list and hoping for a gap. The calendar stops being a record of meetings and becomes a plan for the whole day.

Also called: calendar blocking, time blocking method

Where it goes wrong

Almost every account of it skips the maintenance. Blocking a week by hand takes twenty minutes, and one moved meeting on Tuesday invalidates the rest of it. People rarely abandon time blocking because it did not work; they abandon it because rebuilding the week by hand every time something moves is a second job.

Diarized schedules the work you already keep in a to-do app into the calendar you already use, and shows you why every block landed where it did.

Related terms

Timeboxing The Pomodoro Technique Auto-scheduling Deep work Context switching Buffer time