Design a daily focus routine with a focus app
Designs a daily routine of focus blocks and breaks that fits your Mac work, with rules for what a focus app should silence.
Task:
Design a daily routine with focus blocks that I can run with a focus app on my Mac.
Context:
I work [hours per day] on [kind of work]. My calendar is fixed at [fixed commitments]. My energy is best around [time of day]. What breaks my focus most is [interruptions].
Rules:
- Put the hardest work in my best hours and the shallow work after it.
- Set the block length in minutes and the break length in minutes, and say why.
- For each block, list what the focus app should silence or allow, in terms of notifications, people and apps rather than app features.
- Include a rule for what I do when an urgent interruption comes in during a block.
- Treat it as a two-week experiment and name the one number I track to see if it works.
Result:
A table with the columns time, block type, what is silenced and what is allowed, for one workday. Then the experiment in two sentences.