Newport likens "time blocking" to a chess game he plays against his projects at the end of each day. Think of this as secondary to your calendar. You're planning out more than your day, you're ...

Newport’s planner provides four columns every day so you can reorganize your time. Maybe it takes you 20 minutes to clear a printer jam. Maybe your baby starts teething and she doesn’t nap.

Using time blocking, you block out the time you'll spend on each task, usually in a calendar or planner, and stick to it, using educated guesses to estimate how long each will take within your ...

Using time blocking, you block out the time you'll spend on each task, usually in a calendar or planner, and stick to it, using educated guesses to estimate how long each will take within your ...