Design a focus block schedule for my workday
Designs a weekly schedule of protected focus blocks around your meetings, with a fallback for the days it breaks down.
Task:
Design a weekly schedule with protected focus blocks around my fixed meetings.
Context:
I work [days and hours]. My recurring meetings are [recurring meetings with day and time]. My most important work this week is [top priorities]. People expect a reply within [reply expectation]. My calendar tool is [calendar tool].
Rules:
- Give at most two focus blocks per day, each between 60 and 120 minutes, and place the work that needs the most thought in my best hours.
- Reserve one 30 minute slot per day for messages and email so that people know when to expect a reply.
- Add a buffer of 15 minutes after back-to-back meetings.
- Write the one-line status message I can set during a block, and a rule for what counts as an exception.
- Give a plan B for a day when meetings take over, so the most important work still gets one block.
Result:
A table with the columns day, time, block and goal, for Monday to Friday. After it, the status message in one line and the plan B in two sentences.