Time Management: What’s Your Secret?

Have a time-saving trick you swear by? Share it with the community—we’d love to hear your story or hacks! 🕒💡

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ctrAlt

3 months ago

Set a time to stay on track

bigtwona

4 months ago

Anyone try motion ai? Could this be paired with it?

hezathegreatlast month

I’m also curious about free alternatives

Ghomem3 months ago

I looked it up just now and it looks very cool. Do you know of any free alternatives similar to it?

janaelmarie25

4 months ago

Timer

Donny6969

6 months ago

I try and remove distractions and start getting ready with plenty of time remaining! But my head usually finds other things to Micro manage and potter about doing unnecessary stuff so late anyway lol, the time we waste is unbelievable 😩

TryEachDay

10 months ago

A visual timer helps to set a specific time for the task. It also helps starting a task. Otherwise I have a todo list with just everything. Eating meals, taking meds and other tasks

iiiiii’m fifty!

last year

All of them help me, except for planning buffer time - I always underestimate.

astrocat6 months ago

I heard somewhere that people with ADHD should double or even triple their time estimates and then record how long it actually takes.

rollarottenlast year

I have the same issue sadly and haven’t been able how to figure it out yet.

lalalalilast year

Same for me, i always overestimate my ability lol

Mæ Mæ

last year

The Method called „Eisenhauer-Matrix“ helped me to see which ToDo’s had more Priority.. then starting the Pomodoro Timer after matching task to my energy

rollarotten

last year

Timers ⏲️ are a must for me to stay on track.

Brneyedrose4 months ago

I have a cheap Smartwatch and use the timer on it all the time for even small routine tasks. Not only is it a reminder for some task, but I think it also helps me appreciate the passage of time…..mostly when I’m wasting it.

astrocat6 months ago

Someone once asked me why I had three timers on my desk at work 😂. I was a loss for words 😅. Timers really help me so that I don’t miss important events because of hyperfocus. So if I know I have a meeting in 30 minutes, I set a timer for 25 minutes so that I don’t have to worry about forgetting.

rollarotten

last year

Right now I’m working on a lot of home repairs and things keep going wrong. 😑 So it feels like it eats into my routines. 😥

HoldOn

last year

Block n Timers is my advice

HoldOn

last year

Timer

HoldOn

last year

Blocking shit

HoldOn

last year

Timer is working for me

rollarotten

2 years ago

Using my Daytimer or Calender on my phone with reminders.

sonnek

2 years ago

I use an analog calendar to note appointments over months and weeks, Numo as my „note everything“ tool and Llama life for timeboxing my business tasks. That seems to work for me.

spacedust

2 years ago

it is one of those times I want to see the result of a poll without answering cause I don't really use anything successfully at the moment

hezathegreat4 months ago

Same. I’ve tried and failed most of these ideas

fnaf_fan

2 years ago

I choose my strategy based on my level of focus. If I really don't want to get things done but really need to, I set timers and limit distractions. But usually I just take advantage of productive energy days.

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