Should You Use Calendar Time Blocks As Part Of Your GTD System?

Your work calendar is probably full. Of lots of meetings and the challenge can be finding enough time to get your own work done. David Allen, the author of “Getting Things Done” answers a viewer's question about time blocking.

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[vladimir.zlokazov]

David's advice to use calendar just for hard deadlines and time-bound things was kind of a revelation. Before that I used to put dates on other tasks as well, then I wouldn't finish them all, they become outdated and the whole system would become obsolete very fast.

[FourtyParsecs]

It sounds like time blocking might work OK most times if done on a day-by-day basis. But doing it on a weekly basis is likely not flexible enough for the real world we are operating in.