Beginner's Guide to Time Blocking

To make your life easier:
What is time blocking? 00:00
Variations of time blocking 00:53
Why time blocking works 01:29
Will time blocking work with my job 02:57
Common missteps to avoid 03:53
Time blocking with Todoist 06:06
Time blocking with task durations in Todoist 08:26

[MichaelEhling]

This is a very good tutorial on time blocking. The only things I would add, if I may, are (1) notice and replace less-than-helpful beliefs about your tasks (e.g. "I must do all the things!) and (2) if you forget, fail, or otherwise flounder with time blocking, try again tomorrow; you'll get it soon enough.

[victoriaquezada]

I just listened to a popular You tube channel yesterday on Time blocking but she failed to explain it correctly, she instead set time allowances for pretty much single items to do in her day from 6 am til 5 dinner. It was only a schedule and not time blocking.. Thank you for correct information.

[tightenupwithTiff]

Forgetting to adhere to the plan is definitely my problem 😩 you nailed it. Thanks for this video! I hope I can be successful with this

[TechandNonsense]

This is a great video, thanks so much for doing this. I've been a Todoist user for many years, but the concept of time blocking never grabbed me. This morning watching your talk and reviewing my recurring tasks and routines in Todoist and adding the Google Calendar connection has convinced me to give it a shot. Bonus level is that it helped me see some overlapping tasks and do a little useful housekeeping :)

[rikudoukarthik]

The task duration is a great feature, but I'm still not fully onboard with the calendar sync integration because of one reason. The integration currently displays all tasks that have a day scheduled in the calendar---this can be very very clunky and distracting. It would be great if we could choose to only display in the calendar those tasks with time and/or duration specified.

[thelingopro]

Great help to aid my first week of use of the app. Thoroughly enjoying the results so far.

[felipemldias]

I'm so excited for calendar view within todoist! I hope we'll be able to see events from other calendars as well, such as google cal (:

[nishanudam]

Fantastic feature! Now patiently waiting for the built in calendar feature, I want love to have have my calendar built while having a 2 way sync with google. Helps me avoid task switching and distractions.

[cosmobiologist]

I've tried and failed a few times with time blocking. I think the hardest thing for me has always been trying to jump too quick to large scale time blocking for weeks at a time. I've lately found that if I time block out a single day the evening before when I shut down at my desk, I'm more likely to be able to adhere to the blocking I've set for myself. Though I also need to build in some small windows of "no time", often just for stretching or relaxing, and I also have some blocks that are strict while I allow for some to be more fluid, so that I can alter them in the morning if things come up.

[seacreatively]

This is very helpful! A heads up: at 06:59, the time blocking graphic lists 12 am (it should be 12 pm).

[thumbd]

Very great tips and well organized, thanks!

[JeffreyHallock-pf]

Great video and presentation Naomi! I'm a new user and looking forward to being more productive with Todoist :)

[ridwanslife]

Looking forward to more videos like this from Todoist team. Good job! 👍👍🙌🙌

[blurocktech]

Thanks for this- very helpful as I’m trying to learn and master time blocking

[AmandaGPPhilipson]

Todist for some reason was changing the times one me. Had to go back into Google calendar and move everything around. I am wondering if there is some sort of connection modification that I need to make in the google calendar. Here is the example I typed in...Order vehicle graphics tomorrow at 9am for 45 mins...then for some reason the time in tidiest changed to 10:00am to 11:00am There were no conflicts in the Google calendar. When I went to the calendar to look I then moved the tasks to their appropriate space. Loving this two way sync though and seriously can't wait to be able to separate personal life vs work life.

[AndriCloud]

when executing planned timeblock, how to deal with interruption, overestimation, and underestimation of timeblock?
a content about it would be helpful

[RichardLeLorier]

when do you expetct to sync oulook calendar with todoist?

[MichaelWebber]

Whoa I wasn't expecting the feature drop at the end.

[lycanlee]

I wish the timeblocking duration worked better with Fantastical. Fantastical added [30m] notation to be able to control duration of tasks but it doesn't read the range in the duration of todoist tasks so when I quick add in todoist the NLP swallows the thing that would control how it shows in fantastical for me.

[dastanasylbekov]

does it work in opposite direction? Let's say I block a time slot for a specific task and it's automatically shows up in my Todoist?