Library – Scheduling and Time Management
This is a snapshot of the papers in my private library, as of August 20, 2018. These papers cover topics in time-based productivity related to scheduling.
Solving Scheduling Problems – Summary of Our Findings
There are a handful of working professionals who have chosen to use their calendars as their hub for all their planning activity. The challenges they run into are only rarely mentioned in time management and productivity books, programs and websites: the overwhelming conventional wisdom states that it’s impossible to use a schedule in this way, …
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New Research: The Benefit of Developing Advanced Scheduling Skills
New research emerges showing that keeping a specific schedule of what you plan to do each day in the future is better than other options. The Problem: For some time here at 2Time Labs I have highlighted the general problem of time management books that neither cite relevant research nor update their recommendations based on …
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Comparing Listing and Scheduling
I have noticed a wide and growing number of new iPhone, Android and laptop apps that attempt to improve a user’s personal productivity. They all seem to focus on the same thing: how to make better lists. In this post, I try to encourage developers to look at better ways of using a schedule instead …
Orange Belt-Level Scheduling Expands
Here at 2Time Labs, one of the distinctions that we made have between different levels of time management skill has to do with the skill/art of using a schedule to manage your daily activity, rather than either a group of lists or one’s memory. Recently, I noticed that two books have echoed this idea; one …
Making Unrealistic Plans Every Day? Use Better Scheduling Techniques
Most of us make either mental, written or keyed in plans each day, and unfortunately we make the mistake of telling ourselves to do too much with too few hours. Address the problem today by changing your scheduling skills, and use the latest research from the best time management researchers, who don’t just make stuff, …
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How to Know When to Upgrade Your Scheduling Skills
In a number of posts, I have written about the need to upgrade your scheduling skills when you hit “a certain threshold.” Unfortunately, there is little empirical evidence to guide us to the precise point in time when this shift should take place. Instead, I find myself coaching clients in programs from a bit of …
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Dezhi Wu’s Game-Changing Research on Scheduling #3
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been immersing myself in Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structure in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar design.” It’s a book based on the research she did over 5+ years and her empirical findings have put to bed some of the questions I have been exploring …
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New Terminology for Scheduling
Now and then I find that here on 2Time I am forced to craft a new word for a concept that doesn’t quite have the right definition. For example, “time demand” is a phrase I had to coin in the absence of any other, to describe the basic unit of stuff that we deal with …
Giving up Scheduling on Graduation
I have been playing the video shown below in my NewHabits time management programs, primarily to illustrate Orange Belt scheduling skills. It’s a great teaching video, as it shows clearly the advantage of using a schedule (even on paper) over a list, or personal memory. It’s an essential level of skill for college students who …