How Timeboxing Works and Why It Will Make You More Productive

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1. Click the + button on a date to add a new entry.
2. Use the Brain Dump section to get out all your ideas for the day.
3. Prioritize your Top 3
4. Complete your timebox by assigning your tasks to specific hours. Then stick to your schedule as much as possible to see the best effects of timeboxing! </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/science_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/science_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Customizations

The Daily Schedule is a template in the Calendar database. Click the down arrow next to “New” and the “…” button next to the Daily Schedule template. Choose “Edit” and make any changes you like to the template. They will save automatically and apply to any new created daily schedules. Notion does not apply template changes to existing records. Only new entries will have the template changes.

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Schedule

<aside> <img src="/icons/departures_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/departures_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Advanced Notion Users

I wanted this template to be a bare-bones, no-frills addition ready for any level of Notion user. For myself, I made a more complex version.

Instead of having a static brain dump section, I created a database of Tasks. A Linked View of that database took the place of the Brain Dump section in the Daily Schedule template. I filter the view to only incomplete tasks, and I add tasks to the database as I think of them. This helps me follow tasks over time, to ensure they are not falling off my radar. You may find this is an even more productive version of timeboxing, as I have.

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