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created: 2024-03-27 23:08
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Time blocking is a time management method that asks you to **divide your day into blocks of time**. Each block is dedicated to accomplishing a **specific task or group of tasks**, and only those specific tasks.

With days that are time blocked in advance, you **won’t have to constantly make choices about what to focus on**. 

## types of time Block

### Time Blocking or Calendar Block

Set a timeframe to work on a specific tasks, this doesn't mean you need to finish it then, just that you'll work in this timeframe on this task and this task alone.

## Tasks batching

Group a bunch of small and similar tasks and allocate a timeframe to work on them, this is usefull to reduce the context switching.

### Day theming

task batching at a bigger scale, dedicate a whole day to a specific area.

### Time boxing

Is the same as time blocking, but this time we'll have to end the task withing the timeframe. This is to force you to produce something finished, ether by being really efficient or by reducing the scope of the tasks to something archivable. the idea is not to produce a mediocre product, but to **finish stuff**

This will align with [The cult of done](The%20cult%20of%20done.md) idea and that 80% completion of the task will use the same time/effort as the reminding 20%.