TimeBox: Daily Todo Scheduler & Planner for Android

Have you ever gone through experience where you cannot see the schedule management window at a single glance on your smart phone? Have you ever gone through inconveniences because of complex settings?

Use TimeBox for convenient schedule management on your smart phone as if it is a paper planner.

Why do I need TimeBox?

You can live your life proactively or reactively. Living proactively means that you are designing your days around the tasks that will help you accomplish your longer-term goals.

Living reactively means that you either dont have control over your schedule, or that you have a plan but you dont stick to it for whatever reason. The reasons can include your own procrastination, your work environment, or letting others push their goals onto your day.

The latter happens when you subscribe to the false thinking that someone elses goals are more important than yours. If you are in the habit of living reactively, it can be a hard habit to break.

Is your day packed absolutely packed or did you pack your day?

Time Boxing can help.

What is time blocking?

To get the most out of your day, you need to start tracking your time more accurately. Without knowing how and when you complete tasks, you wont be able to properly time block.

Once you have your priorities, tools for managing your day, and time tracking app of choice, you can start on the next step: daily time boxing.

Time boxing is the process of arranging your tasks into the hours of a day to achieve max productivity. Its how you design your days in a proactive way, vs. being reactive to the demands of others.

An article quoting Kevin Kruse, author of 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, recommends time blocks instead of to-do lists because of the discipline and order it applies to your tasks.

Organizing your schedule instead of making a to-do list takes productivity one step further. Because youre dedicating specific windows of time to your work, everything finds its place. Tasks arent floating around in your mind. Theres a time set aside to get it all done.

As Kruse continued, this can even help you sleep better at night.

Once you start time blocking, youll have a grasp on what you can accomplish in a day, giving you a much more realistic set of goals.

Benefits of Time Boxing

#1. It makes your work a priority

When you create a calendar event, its likely something important for yourself, or a commitment you made to someone else.

Time blocking does the same thing, but for all of your tasks. It elevates your work especially the highest priority projects to an immovable event.

Paul Minors explained time blocking this way, Youre making a promise to turn up at 10am and work on that presentation. This self-commitment helps you to turn good intention (the tasks on your task list) into a plan of action (a commitment about when youre going to get the work done).

#2. It helps you work distraction-free

Its all too common to feel the pull of other tasks, notifications, coworkers, clients, and so on when were trying to focus.

Distractions are a part of modern life.

Time blocking aims to minimize their negative impact, giving you dedicated work time on one specific task.

You may have heard the phrase deep work or flow. In short, deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Once youve learned this skill, you can think through complex situations and produce better results much faster.

Time blocking + deep work = a productivity dream.

#3. It minimizes the mental burden of switching tasks

We all know its hard to resume a task once youre pulled into something else. If your workplace sounds like the title of Celeste Ngs 2017 novel, Little Fires Everywhere, youre going to want to try time blocking.

Its not always easy to pick up where you left off, especially if youre still thinking about the most recent fire drill.