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09:00 – 09:50Odak_______________
09:50 – 10:40Odak_______________
10:40 – 10:50Mola—
10:50 – 11:40Odak_______________
11:40 – 12:30Odak_______________
12:30 – 12:40Mola—
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13:30 – 14:20Odak_______________
14:20 – 14:30Mola—
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16:10 – 16:20Mola—

Generate a structured time-blocked schedule for your working day. Set your start and end times, pick a focus- block size (45 / 60 / 90 / 120 minutes — pick what fits your attention span and the work’s nature), and break duration (typically 15-30 min between blocks), and the tool builds a clean grid you can fill with tasks. Includes auto-tally of total focus time vs total break time, plus an exportable schedule (markdown, plain text, or print).

Time-blocking — the practice of pre-allocating specific chunks of your day to specific tasks — is most associated with Cal Newport’s Deep Work (2016) and before him with Benjamin Franklin’s 1726 daily schedule (he literally drew up an hour-by-hour plan and stuck to it). The mechanic is older than that — most pre-modern monasteries had hour-by-hour rules of life. The modern rationale: humans are bad at intentional task-switching; if you don’t pre-decide what to work on, you’ll gravitate to inbox / Slack / shallow work. Time-blocking forces a decision when you have the most clarity (the night before / morning of) rather than when you’re deepest in execution and least equipped to decide.

Common block sizes: 25 min (Pomodoro) — frequent breaks, good for fragmented work or attention-issues; 50 min — typical lecture / class length, fits the natural attention curve; 90 min — matches the basic rest- activity cycle (BRAC), the body’s natural ~90-min fatigue cycle described by Nathan Kleitman in 1963. Newport recommends 60-90 min blocks for deep work. Pick what matches the kind of work you’re doing plus your personal attention pattern.

Nasıl Kullanılır

  1. Set your day's start time (when you actually start, not when you wake up — distinguish blocking from morning routine).
  2. Set end time (typically when you stop work, before family / dinner / evening).
  3. Pick block size: 25 (Pomodoro), 50, 60, 90, 120 minutes. Try multiple options; pick what fits your work nature.
  4. Pick break size: 5-30 minutes. Longer breaks for longer blocks (90-min block + 30-min break is a typical pair).
  5. Fill in tasks for each block. Be specific: 'Draft Q3 quarterly report intro section' beats 'Work on report'.
  6. Print or export. Some people work better with a paper copy; some prefer the digital version on a second screen.
  7. At day's end, review: which blocks went as planned, which got hijacked. Adjust tomorrow's plan accordingly.

Ne Zaman Kullanılır

  • Knowledge work where attention is the scarce resource.
  • Days with mixed focus + meetings — block out focus time first, then work meetings around it.
  • Recovery from a chaotic / reactive period — blocking re-establishes intentional work.
  • Trying to ship a big project that keeps getting deprioritized by smaller urgent things — block it explicitly.

Ne Zaman Kullanılmaz

  • Highly reactive jobs (support, ops, on-call rotations) where the work is responding to incoming events. Time-blocking conflicts with the job's nature.
  • Creative work that benefits from open exploration — sometimes the best ideas come from undirected wandering, not pre-blocked task-execution.
  • When you have a real emergency / fire — fight the fire first, time-block tomorrow.
  • Days dominated by external meetings — there's nothing to block; time is already allocated by others.

Yaygın Kullanım Senaryoları

  • Onboarding a colleague who needs the same calculation/conversion
  • Verifying a number or output before passing it on
  • Quick use during a typical workday
  • Pre-decision sanity-check on inputs and outputs

Sık Sorulan Sorular

What's the right block size?

Depends on the work and your attention. Try several over a week and notice when you genuinely lose focus. For deep concentration work (writing, coding, designing): 60-90 minutes is the sweet spot for most people. For shallow / repetitive work: 25-45 min Pomodoros work well. For creative exploration: longer (2 hours) with no fixed task.

What's the BRAC cycle?

Basic Rest-Activity Cycle, described by Nathan Kleitman in 1963. The body alternates between higher and lower arousal states roughly every 90 minutes — observable in REM sleep cycles overnight, and present (in modified form) during waking hours. Many productivity advocates argue this means our natural attention cycle is ~90 minutes, with a need for rest after. Empirical evidence is mixed, but the rough advice — long blocks of focused work followed by real breaks — has solid track record.

How does time-blocking compare to to-do lists?

To-do lists capture WHAT to do; time blocks capture WHEN to do it. Lists alone often grow unmanageable — you have 30 things and 8 hours, so you constantly choose what to drop. Time-blocking forces the choice up front: this 60 minutes is for X, full stop. The trade-off: time-blocking is rigid; lists are flexible. Best practice: use both. Maintain a list, then each morning block out 4-6 hours of intentional work from the list.

What if my plan gets disrupted?

Replan. The block is a target, not a contract. If a meeting runs long or an emergency hits, shift the schedule or accept the loss for that day. Don't quit blocking entirely because one day fell apart — that's perfectionism, the enemy of consistent practice.

Should I block leisure / family time?

Worth experimenting. Cal Newport advocates time-blocking your entire day including evenings; some find it too rigid for non-work life. A middle ground: block work hours strictly, leave evenings/weekends to flow. Pick what works for you.

Is this different from Pomodoro?

Pomodoro is one specific time-blocking style — 25 min work, 5 min break, repeat 4× then take a 30-min break. Time-blocking is broader: any pre-allocated work chunks of any size. Use Pomodoro when frequent breaks help you (attention issues, repetitive tasks); use longer blocks for deep work. They're complementary, not opposed.