These updates are applied automatically on the server. No download needed. ## Visualizing and flowing in time - a better focus mode - now available! As I discussed last time, core to the platform has always been the ability to help understand and design your time. Being intentional with your time, timeboxing and timeblocking are powerful tools. Being able to flow with time, especially as we have changes and delays would also be really helpful. For those of you using the platform for the Task Trust System like me, much of the day I'm living in my focus mode. This new update to the focus mode now allows: - see what is likely to be achieved and not achieved today (including accounting for uncertainty with x factors) - be easily able to see what is coming up next - be able to see when there is some break time in your day ![[Flow Time Physics Part 1.png]] ### Improved sorting in your focus view Timeblocked tasks are important. You have committed some time to work on those today. However, they are not necessarily your most important tasks. I particularly like the "highlight" approach to a day from Jake Knapp and John Zuretzsky's Make Time approach. Previously to show your timeblocked tasks on the day, I used a custom ordering of the tasks that made it impossible for you to reorder other tasks above or between timeblocked tasks. That has now been fixed. In order to do this, the system will add any tasks that are timeblocked for today to your today bucket. This does mean that you will need to "handle" them at the end of your day (or the beginning of the following day) as they will still be in the today bucket. Hopefully the bulk actions (move all today to next, or just completing them) will allow you to handle these very smoothly. ### How do I use this as part of my Task Trust System? I'll be doing more sharing of how I use the system for my task trust system as part of the upcoming "MakeTimeFlow Way" series. Here's a quick outline of how I am going to use this as part of my task trust system: - in the morning, I use my begin well ritual, to choose the tasks I want to do that day. Some of these I timeblock, but some (usually in my "nice to have" bucket) I just add as tasks - once I've completed my ritual, I then go into my focus view. I use the "start" button in the tasks to be intentional with my time. - I use the following markers to help orient and guide my day: - `-- highlight work` - I place my highlight above this line - then I have my timeblocked tasks and the tasks I plan to do in the breaks (include some performance breaks) - `-- nice to have` - I put the tasks that are nice to have below this. I can then order and reorder my tasks as my priorities change during the day without having to do too much shuffling of my tasks. To clear a timeblock, I just click the "Next" bucket (if I am not going to do it today). If I'd still like to try to do it, I then just star it again to keep it in my today bucket.