Using a Calendar for Better Time Management: What I do (Part 1)
I use Trello to keep track of everything I have to do, as seen by my multiple blog posts on it (task tracking for a big class , personally , and a conference and a whole board about podcasts I listen to ). However, I also use my calendar to help me manage my time, so I actually get most of it done. I use my calendar to plan out when I will work on certain tasks and to force myself to actually recognize what is a reasonable task list. [Also posted on medium .] Confession time: I’ve always struggled with planning more tasks than I actually have time for. This is due to many of the usual suspects: not time-boxing strongly enough, having more tasks than will fit in a 40-hour work week, and the planning fallacy of underestimating how long something will take me. Over the years, I’ve fiddled, gotten rid of, and layered different strategies for managing my time and task list such that things are much less messy and I’m overworking myself less. And since reflection is useful, I decided to st