![]() ![]() In essence, TickTick is a powerful and flexible task management app - apparently right up there with Todoist and Things 3 - that includes a graphic calendar view. If this sounds familiar, I can heartily recommend a time management technique called time-blocking, and a very handy app called TickTick that can help you get your calendar and your to-do list to mesh, overcoming some of the effects of digital overload. Drag-and-drop time-blocking with TickTick The unticked items take their sullen revenge by ruining my evening, their unshortened agenda casting a lengthening shadow of guilt over my leisure time, and doubling the to-do pressure for the following day. ![]() That promising patch of potential productivity between 9am and 5pm has been transmuted into the past imperfect, littered with the remains of my largely untouched list of tasks and priorities. A meeting must be honoured, whether it’s in person or on Zoom a deadline for an ad must be observed and must be followed closely, it seems, by a second meeting, only to be succeeded by a medical appointment, a lunch date, a trip to fetch a family member from the airport, and then another Zoom call or two and … hey presto! Generally speaking, my calendar wins hands down. The problem is, until very recently, these two systems have been competing for my precious pool of available work hours - not collaborating to help me to get the most out of this non-renewable resource. Two simple and ancient systems that have both successfully evolved from their paper-based origins into the digital world, where they now cheerfully emit reminders and nudges and chirrups and alarms of various kinds. One is a to-do list and the other a calendar. Productivity Hack: Use TickTick to Integrate your To Do List & your Calendarįor an absurdly long time I have been struggling to manage my time using two familiar tools that should have been talking to each other, but weren’t. ![]()
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