While everyone is out there using AI to increase their productivity, I'm making a different change to increase mine. I'm better tracking what I spend my time on.
At work I do heavily utilize my calendar to know "this is time dedicated to XYZ" and it was time to bring that over to my personal life. I've used reminders so far to do this, BUT they just aren't as good and don't "block off time" towards a task.
For the calendar itself, I decided to use Nextcloud. I already had an instance of it running with Caldev thanks to my MIAB(MailInABox) instance(thanks @cadawg!) and I was able to utilize it. From there, it syncs to my laptop and my phone so I can see it in both. I can even invite people to events and they get an email to accept/decline it, which is great for planning stuff with others(don't worry, I don't plan on being the person who sends calendar invites for every little thing).
I plan on utilizing this thing at a high level. Notice how the 9-5 in the screenshot just says work, not the details of work. Since things within a task can change as well as exact timing, gotta keep the go with the flow attitude :rishi556/happyhappyhappycompressed:.
Lets hope for a more productive future!
You know that little jumping bear thing you have above? I thought it was a tiny bug on my phone and tried to blow it away 😂
This little guy would be sad.
How much time dedicated to personal hygiene, commute, sleep... food preparation, meandering through tangents... etc ?
I tried this for a bit but I ended up doing 10h overtime today (on a Sunday) and writing this comment in unscheduled time
Yeah things don't always go to plan, but this at least gives me a general idea of what I can do and what time is already booked. I started realizing things were getting hectic as I'm touring apartments and having a calendar to know what I'm touring when will be great to ensure I don't have overlapping plans.
And I'm not going to track sleep, commute and such. Those things vary on a day to day basis for me.
Lol sailing in the same boat. I recently started using To Do lists to increase my productivity. I'm doing enough stuff but still not sufficient rnough. I have tried calendar in my work environment. It didn't work out very well for me. But I know it is very effective to stay time bound.
But your way of using Calendar sounds interesting. I'll give it a try one more time at least for things outside work.
Finding what works is definitely the hard part. I do think that by keeping this high level for me, it's going to be a massive benefit so I can just focus on that rather than tracking things down to every second like some people tend to do.
Time blocking next level.