From the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism comes a daily planner that
deploys the power of time blocking to help you focus on what's important in an increasingly
distracted world. Time blocking is a time management method long used by some of the world's
most effective people from Elon Musk to Bill Gates and promoted by some of the smartest
thinkers in productivity from Peter Drucker to Benjamin Franklin. Its core idea is that a task
list is not enough to make the most of your limited time. You should instead partition your
working hours into blocks assigned to specific activities. In doing so you can more easily
protect hours for deep work while batching shallow tasks into efficient sprints. The clarity
of these blocks also encourages you to focus intensely on one thing at a time resisting the
distracting allure of inboxes social media and idle web surfing. For fifteen years author
Cal Newport has been extolling the benefits of time blocking. Now for the first time this
system has been captured in a daily planner that makes it easy for anyone to implement these
ideas in their own professional life. The Time-Block Planner opens with an introduction from
Newport to guide you through the basics of effective time blocking. Ninety days' worth of
time-blocking pages follow each divided into a grid that simplifies both building daily
schedules and easily updating them as circumstances change. Weekly planning pages supplement
the daily planning pages each including a big idea about productivity from Newport inspiring
you to think deeply about the week ahead. A shutdown box sits at the top of each page so you
can physically and psychologically end your workday with a check of the box--a ritual widely
employed by many of Newport's longtime readers. You already know what work really matters. The
Time-Block Planner will help you push aside distractions and other peoples' demands for your
time and focus on accomplishing more of these deep efforts than you ever thought possible.
