This time I’ve been encouraged to say thank you very much. This video has solved the planning problem I usually have looking to the future. I think this is very useful.
I started The Time Sector Method about 2 weeks ago and what a huge difference it made for me! I highly recommend it if you are thinking about it. I was very skeptical at first, but I thought I had nothing to lose by trying, my system was leaving me stressed and overwhelmed every day anyway. I couldn't be happier with the huge improvements using this system! Thank you Carl! Great video as always!
Hi Carl, very good episode. I updated part of my planning session based on your concepts. I must admit when i had finished it felt like i had found the missing piece of my jig-saw puzzle. Now the picture seems clearer. Thanks
I don't really need to do those. I have a plan for the year, I have a guideline for the big projects that I want to do each quarter and so long-term planning is not really necessary. I already know what I will be doing Q1 and Q2 in 2021. Q3 & 4 are roughly planned, but will likely confirm these around June/July.
Hi Carl, this was a great episode - I implemented it straight away and proved to be the 'missing' link to my Time Sector system. I paused on the 'project' screen you showed from Evernote and have replicated something similar. I know that you have touched on this in the TS course and in previous videos, but is this something you could take a deeper look at?
Glad to have been of help, Jef. I'm waiting for the promised Evernote update before I do an in depth project planning episode. I would not want to video to be out of date almost as soon as it is published.
Great video! How did you came up with these filters, like next week? I struggle with setting this filter to start exactly next Monday including next Sunday tasks.
Carl, when you have a moment - take a look at the visual planning tools. Trello, Ayoa, Braino (theres loads) - they seem more popular in Asia than the list (Todoist, Nozbe) types. Interesting...... Whats your take on them?
Hi Carl. Great stuff as always. I've completed your Time Sector Method and am in the process of converting over. Still confused a bit on Recurring Areas of Focus. In your video, you're only showing those items all for today (think this is just coincidence?). What does this look like in the real world and how to you manage to sort what is actually for this week, next week, etc. when they are all likely showing in your "THIS WEEK" folder. Trying to get how to see the full planning picture with them, when not 'filtered', as they are now all showing in with the "THIS WEEK" tasks.
For me areas of focus just come up when they are due. So I never really need to think about them much. It's true some may not come up every week, but, as the section is closed I don't worry too much about them. I'll switch them around in future episodes.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you. Do any of your recurring Areas of Focus contain sub-tasks? If so, might they be better as projects or kept in OneNote, etc. with a recurring Area of Focus as a 'trigger' for review or how do you decide?
Hey Carl, I think it's your policy to not duplicate items across Todoist and calendar. So around 6:05 once you have blocked the time on your calendar, I thought you'd remove it from your Todoist but you didn't. What is your thinking around this?
It depends. I normally create a general event in my calendar -- "Work on online course" or "writing time" However, sometimes when I wnt to block a large amount of time out for a specific reason, I will be more clear and there could possibly be some duplication.
It doesn't go into depth on any particular app as I know many of the course participants use many different tools. But I do shoe you what you can add to your project notes. This works in both Evernote and OneNote.
Hi, Carl. Do you consider your Recurring Areas of Focus tasks in your Weekly Planning? Maybe it could be difficult in a particular week to do some of these tasks.
@@Carl_Pullein Thanks Carl, I see you try to simplify the weekly planning process as much as possible. Do you have some calendar blocks for these recurring areas of focus tasks?
Hi Carl - have you tried Amazing Marvin? Cross platform and highly configurable- has various time blocking methods built in. Mobile app is ok but as a desktop app it’s very good. No affiliation with the company just a happy user who uses time blocks in a similar way, but I like it being all in the same app.
I'm using Apple calendar, and yes I could, but I prefer to manually do it so if things change, as they sometimes do, all I have to do is reschedule the time on my calendar and not have to worry about integrations breaking (as they often do)
Weekly Planning Session is a better name than Weekly Review Session. You can actually set yourself up for success and being productive by planning your week going forward rather than reviewing last week
Why there is not a total integration with calendar yet, like other apps so when we create a task that will take some time then it shows in calendar as a time block, that is the only reason I didn’t move to Todoist fully and still using TickTick .
I prefer the manual way. My calendar gives me a clear view of my day with my appointments and anything I have decided needs time blocking for. The other thing I have found is integrations break from time to time and you need to re-log in and argh! No thank you.
Todoist is not a “Project Manager” it is a “task Manager” and the only thing that matters with tasks is not how you organise them, but when are you going to do them.
@@Carl_Pullein I completely disagree. Give a definition of "project". Me and my team of 10 directs in a 900 employee logistics company manage all our projects with Todoist. Either with the board view or with the list view using sections. I agree with you that the target of taskmanagement is not the question on how to organize tasks but to get them done. But nevertheless I cannot understand why anybody should organize Todoist in the way you do it because the time planning, scheduling of tasks can be done in a completely different way. At the end I would like to say that thank god Todoist is a very powerful and flexible tool with a high level of customization opportunities so that everybody can use it as he or she wants.
After 10 years of trying to get project based to-dos to work, I gave up and came at it from a different angle. Finally, I found it. That said, I do still use my Golden 10
Carl Pullein I use the Golden 10 as my ultimate reduction method. It’s the last stop for all my todos. Keep up the great work, really learned a lot from your videos!
Your timing of videos is amazingly in sync with the information I needed. Well done Carl. You read my mind again. LOL
Glad to have been of help, Matthew.
This time I’ve been encouraged to say thank you very much. This video has solved the planning problem I usually have looking to the future. I think this is very useful.
Glad to have been of help, Felipe.
I started The Time Sector Method about 2 weeks ago and what a huge difference it made for me! I highly recommend it if you are thinking about it. I was very skeptical at first, but I thought I had nothing to lose by trying, my system was leaving me stressed and overwhelmed every day anyway. I couldn't be happier with the huge improvements using this system!
Thank you Carl! Great video as always!
So glad to hear it's working for you, Maira. Good luck with your journey.
Hi Carl, very good episode. I updated part of my planning session based on your concepts. I must admit when i had finished it felt like i had found the missing piece of my jig-saw puzzle. Now the picture seems clearer. Thanks
So happy to have been of help, Paul.
Hi Carl. I like this master projects list! Did you also consider linking each project note to the table in the master projects list?
Yes, you can do that too. I forgot about that bit. Thanks for the reminder. In my 'real' projects list they are linked.
I loved this!! Awesome video! I'd be interested to see a glimpse of your monthly and long-term planning/review sessions. Keep up the great content!
I don't really need to do those. I have a plan for the year, I have a guideline for the big projects that I want to do each quarter and so long-term planning is not really necessary. I already know what I will be doing Q1 and Q2 in 2021. Q3 & 4 are roughly planned, but will likely confirm these around June/July.
I realize I'm quite randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to stream new series online ?
@Jeremy Braxton Flixportal :P
@Kohen Ryker Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it !!
@Jeremy Braxton glad I could help xD
Great review of planning process. As always, nicely done!
Thank you, Malcolm.
Hi Carl, this was a great episode - I implemented it straight away and proved to be the 'missing' link to my Time Sector system. I paused on the 'project' screen you showed from Evernote and have replicated something similar. I know that you have touched on this in the TS course and in previous videos, but is this something you could take a deeper look at?
Glad to have been of help, Jef. I'm waiting for the promised Evernote update before I do an in depth project planning episode. I would not want to video to be out of date almost as soon as it is published.
Great video! How did you came up with these filters, like next week? I struggle with setting this filter to start exactly next Monday including next Sunday tasks.
Hi Oskar, these are not filters. These are set up as projects.
@@Carl_Pullein ok, thanks!
Very helpful! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Carl, when you have a moment - take a look at the visual planning tools. Trello, Ayoa, Braino (theres loads) - they seem more popular in Asia than the list (Todoist, Nozbe) types. Interesting...... Whats your take on them?
Hi George, I use Asana for my content scheduling. I can monitor, visually, where each piece of content is.
Hi Carl. Great stuff as always. I've completed your Time Sector Method and am in the process of converting over. Still confused a bit on Recurring Areas of Focus. In your video, you're only showing those items all for today (think this is just coincidence?). What does this look like in the real world and how to you manage to sort what is actually for this week, next week, etc. when they are all likely showing in your "THIS WEEK" folder. Trying to get how to see the full planning picture with them, when not 'filtered', as they are now all showing in with the "THIS WEEK" tasks.
For me areas of focus just come up when they are due. So I never really need to think about them much. It's true some may not come up every week, but, as the section is closed I don't worry too much about them. I'll switch them around in future episodes.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you. Do any of your recurring Areas of Focus contain sub-tasks? If so, might they be better as projects or kept in OneNote, etc. with a recurring Area of Focus as a 'trigger' for review or how do you decide?
Hey Carl, I think it's your policy to not duplicate items across Todoist and calendar. So around 6:05 once you have blocked the time on your calendar, I thought you'd remove it from your Todoist but you didn't. What is your thinking around this?
It depends. I normally create a general event in my calendar -- "Work on online course" or "writing time" However, sometimes when I wnt to block a large amount of time out for a specific reason, I will be more clear and there could possibly be some duplication.
Carl, does your time sector course show your Evernote setup? Or do you have another course that covers that?
I am interested in this a well!
It doesn't go into depth on any particular app as I know many of the course participants use many different tools. But I do shoe you what you can add to your project notes. This works in both Evernote and OneNote.
I don't have any specific Evernote courses. There's a big update coming soon and I am waiting to see what that has to offer.
Hi, Carl. Do you consider your Recurring Areas of Focus tasks in your Weekly Planning? Maybe it could be difficult in a particular week to do some of these tasks.
No. My recurring areas of focus are fixed. I've already decided these are important tasks, and they recur, so there's no need to review these weekly.
@@Carl_Pullein Thanks Carl, I see you try to simplify the weekly planning process as much as possible. Do you have some calendar blocks for these recurring areas of focus tasks?
@@ecar20100 Some tasks are blocked on my calendar. Writing and recording tasks ar, These are done at the same time each week.
Do you have a video on how you set up your calendar?
I did this one a while back.
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Hi Carl - have you tried Amazing Marvin? Cross platform and highly configurable- has various time blocking methods built in. Mobile app is ok but as a desktop app it’s very good. No affiliation with the company just a happy user who uses time blocks in a similar way, but I like it being all in the same app.
I haven't. I did hear about it, but I like reviewing my calendar manually. I feel more in control that way.
What calendar are you using and could you not schedule the time on the task for it to sync with the calendar
I'm using Apple calendar, and yes I could, but I prefer to manually do it so if things change, as they sometimes do, all I have to do is reschedule the time on my calendar and not have to worry about integrations breaking (as they often do)
Weekly Planning Session is a better name than Weekly Review Session. You can actually set yourself up for success and being productive by planning your week going forward rather than reviewing last week
That's how I felt about it, John Paul.
Why there is not a total integration with calendar yet, like other apps so when we create a task that will take some time then it shows in calendar as a time block, that is the only reason I didn’t move to Todoist fully and still using TickTick .
I prefer the manual way. My calendar gives me a clear view of my day with my appointments and anything I have decided needs time blocking for. The other thing I have found is integrations break from time to time and you need to re-log in and argh! No thank you.
Can anyone help me, in what project are you "Waiting for" label tasks?
They will be in multiple projects. The label bring together all your waiting for tasks from all your projects.
@@Carl_Pullein but if i am using the time sector organization, where should they be, in long term / on hold?
Why should anybody organize Todoist in this way that projects are used for „This week, next week“?
Makes absolutely no sense to me.
Todoist is not a “Project Manager” it is a “task Manager” and the only thing that matters with tasks is not how you organise them, but when are you going to do them.
@@Carl_Pullein I completely disagree. Give a definition of "project".
Me and my team of 10 directs in a 900 employee logistics company manage all our projects with Todoist. Either with the board view or with the list view using sections.
I agree with you that the target of taskmanagement is not the question on how to organize tasks but to get them done.
But nevertheless I cannot understand why anybody should organize Todoist in the way you do it because the time planning, scheduling of tasks can be done in a completely different way.
At the end I would like to say that thank god Todoist is a very powerful and flexible tool with a high level of customization opportunities so that everybody can use it as he or she wants.
I don’t like the week/month breakdown. I miss you next action system and the Golden 10.
After 10 years of trying to get project based to-dos to work, I gave up and came at it from a different angle. Finally, I found it. That said, I do still use my Golden 10
Carl Pullein I use the Golden 10 as my ultimate reduction method. It’s the last stop for all my todos. Keep up the great work, really learned a lot from your videos!