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March

Week 2 - Time Meter App

• Helps me find out how much time I spend on certain aspects of my life

• Categories will include:

1. Sleep

2. Maintenance

• Morning routine, organizing day, eating

3. School

• From going to school until the time I go home

• Homework

4. Learning

• Reading, learning a new skill

5. Games

6. Social

7. Entertainment

8. Reflection/Script-writing

9. Stocks

10. Videography/Video-editing

11. Technology-related

12. Other

13. Productive Random

14. Unproductive Random

Week 3 - Productivity Methods

Eat the Frog

• Start the day off with the most demanding task then work your way down

Time Blocking

• Mix with time-blocking for best results

• If task-batching, have labels for each category

Pomodoro

• 5 minute break every 30mins-1hr

• Washroom, drink water, brain break

Systemist

1. Take it everywhere

2. Capture everything

3. Break it up into small, actionable tasks

4. Prioritize

• Due dates, priority labels, labels

5. Hit zero daily

6. Get consistent feedback

• Todoist Karma

The Commitment Inventory

1. List out all your commitments

• These commitments are IMPORTANT things that you cannot forget throughout the week

• Consists of work-related and hobby-related things, as well as maintenance

2. Review the List

• Set percentages for each commitment

• Percentages > minutes spent

• When working, rotate along your commitments

• Trim the list to match your desires

• Repeat until satisfied

3. Ensure each category has enough time for sufficient progress

4. Set up categories and projects for commitments

• Set up projects for each category with the most important ones at the top, then add sections for each projects

• Space out larger tasks with smaller ones

5. Add check-lists to tasks you may feel overwhelmed with

6. Work in bursts

• Do deep work things in the morning, and do organizing things during the afternoon/night

• Time pressure is important

• We tend to do more work during the end of time constraints

• It’s important to start the next item ASAP even if you aren’t done the previous task

• Prevents getting distracted and loss of attention

Other methods

• https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/eisenhower-matrix#the-mere-urgency-effect-aka-why-were-bad-at-prioritization

• https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/okrs-objectives-key-results

• https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/weekly-review#create-your-weekly-review-checklist

Week 4 - Refind

• Refind is an app that recommends daily articles related to the topics you’re interested in

• More productive than consuming entertainment

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