Experiment: Week-At-A-Glance

Posted on March 31, 2008 by
Categories: Productivity

I have a confession to make. Although I have incorporated many of the Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management (aff) techniques into my productivity methods, I have not actually made it through the book yet.

I find that limiting what I am going to do on any given day, through the use of a closed list, helps keep me from working myself into oblivion. But I wondered about those tasks that I hadn’t committed to. Let’s say Tuesday was a lighter work day. Shouldn’t I take that time and work on some of my projects? I began to wonder if seeing a weekly schedule and the associated closed lists would help.

I went into Excel and designed a form. It can be found in the Free section, or by clicking here. It consists of one piece of paper. The top half has the schedules, the bottom, room for the closed lists.

So far I have been pleased with the results of the experiment. I can see at a glance what is going on, things I need to be prepared for, and what the load is. This coming week is light on the schedule, so I intend to spend time working on some forthcoming offerings.

Other Posts You Might Find Interesting:

If you enjoyed this post, please buy me a cup of coffee!

Comments (3)

 

  1. Mike Bee says:
    March 31, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Do you still use your Bonsai system for organizing your closed lists? Any modification from the GTD Bonsai document you wrote?

  2. Using Bonsai And My Closed List Forms—SimpleProductivityBlog.com— says:
    April 3, 2008 at 5:01 am

    [...] Bee asked in a comment on Experiment: Week-At-A-Glance [...]

  3. Schedule Calibration | SimpleProductivityBlog.com says:
    May 12, 2008 at 5:09 am

    [...] last few weeks, since I started using my weekly template (see Experiment: Week-At-A-Glance) have been a productivity powerhouse. I was blasting through my lists, making progress like I [...]