Time blocking planner
A day with named blocks beats a day with a task list.
Time blocking assigns each piece of work an actual slot instead of a place in a queue. It forces you to face how much time you really have, and it makes over-commitment visible before the day starts rather than at six in the evening.
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Plan your day
Add blocks with a start and end time. Overlapping blocks are flagged, and the timeline shows the 06:00–20:00 window.
Add a time block
Give the block a start time, an end time and a category.
Day overview
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- Blocks
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- Planned time
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- Deep work
Blocks for this day
No blocks yet for this date.
Four steps to a planned day
Ten minutes the evening before is usually enough.
Block deep work first
Put your one or two hardest tasks in your best hours before anything else claims them. Everything else can bend around them.
Add the fixed points
Meetings and commitments you cannot move go in next. What is left is the real capacity you have for everything else.
Batch the admin
Email, messages and small requests go into one or two named blocks instead of leaking across the whole day.
Schedule the breaks
A break that is not on the plan is the first thing to disappear. Blocking it makes it a decision rather than an accident.
Why blocking beats listing
A to-do list hides the one thing that actually constrains you: time.
Exposes over-commitment early
Eight hours of tasks will not fit in a day with four hours of meetings. On a list that is invisible; on a timeline it is obvious immediately.
Removes constant re-deciding
Decisions about what to do next are expensive when you make them thirty times a day. Blocking makes them once.
Shows where the day really goes
The category breakdown often reveals that "a normal day" is mostly admin. That is a useful thing to learn on purpose.
Catches double bookings
Overlapping blocks are flagged as you add them, so conflicts surface while you are still planning.
Frequently asked questions
What if the plan falls apart by ten in the morning?
That is normal and still useful. The value is in seeing the gap between what you planned and what happened, then leaving more slack next time. A plan that survives untouched usually means it was not ambitious enough.
How much slack should I leave?
Plan around seventy per cent of your available hours. The rest is absorbed by overruns, interruptions and the time it takes to switch between things.
Why does the timeline stop at 20:00?
The visual timeline covers 06:00 to 20:00, which is where nearly all work sits. Blocks outside that window are still saved and counted in the totals. They just do not appear on the bar.
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Compare the plan with what really happened
Worktivity records the actual day automatically, so you can see how planned blocks and tracked time line up.
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