Matt, I love this system so much. In fact I love it so much I included it in a video I shot (ruclips.net/video/W9szwGAWnvA/видео.html) to promote time management principles. Far too often I let my most valuable resource slip by without even realizing it. Your 15 minute blocks will make sure they are accounted for so I can start maximizing every minute instead of wondering where all my time goes. Thank you. I included the link if you want to check out the vid.
It's so refreshing to finally find useful content about planning. I'm so sick of the 'art journaling' planning of people flipping through their planners to show me their stickers collection, the new flower, and drawing their embellishment for HOURS. I'm not against embellishing but it kinda defeats the purpose of a planner when the MAIN focus of planning is embellishing if you know what I mean. I've been really looking for someone to actually SHOW how to use a productive system and this didn't disappoint. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve just started looking into bullet journaling and found your videos. This all completely streamlines the system I’ve developed and feels like the clarity I’ve been searching for to help propel me forward in life. It answers where I have been stuck. I’ve been working on 15 minute blocks of time for quite a while, and have been great at this in some portions of the day, but get lost at others. Between bullet journaling and this time tracker, and the mini journal, finally I feel like my life will come together. Thank you
This is great as a weekly time tracker using both the 10 blocks concept and this time tracker to give a better idea of how much to shade in for the week. I just got my first bullet journal this week and am working the in's in out's of the methods of yours that make sense to me and I just had this idea and wanted to share. Thanks for this channel
I’ve never watched any of your videos before so not sure what kind of content you normally have, but this grid for timetracking is brilliant. I really struggle with time management and knowing where the heck my time goes. I’ll try this method and hopefully it’ll help me assign blocks of time to certain activities better. I’m 40 years old and in need of a damn chore chart.
SC Nurse glad you like it! I find it useful just to look back a few times a day and write in what I’ve been doing. My wife is a nurse and has been trying it out too.
So useful! I've been using the one your wife chose and it's helping me find pockets of time to write and produce music (my side hustle). Thanks so much, Matt!
I like this method for getting a perspective on where your time goes, and your example is very encouraging. I'm going to give it a try to see how I spend my time, but I don't expect to see many blocks of time for, say, a side-hustle. There are time-sucking activities that impinge upon nearly everyone's life that aren't considered here. Things like chores (laundry, dishes, cleaning), errands (shopping for groceries or clothes), periodic and occasional things like banking, paying bills, and household maintenance/repair. Then again, I might just be hand-wringing. Thanks for the video, tips, and examples of how you tracked your time.
Just stumbled across this. Just like your wife, I'm loving the hour by hour view. I'm thinking I'm going to try that for work. I am an multi-departmental liaison so I have my hands in MANY projects and am constantly working on no less than 5 things a day. But there are days that I am exhausted at the end of the work day (which is normally 10-12 hours) and actually have the thought of "what did I even do today". This might help me with those times. Thanks for this nugget of info.
Matt.... I love your system. I tried a similar experiment recently for a week measuring my time in 10 min blocks. Made a video about it too. Thank you for all your content Matt. I've binge watched a few times :)
It’s always fascinating to me to see how people spend their time. It must be the consultant life, but no one I know works 9-5, most of us work 70 hr at least weeks, plus commute time, add in food, family, sleep...it’s basically work, eat, sleep mon thru fri, hope for 6 hrs a night of sleep, and if I get 2 hrs of downtime 10pm to midnight that’s a lot. Thanks for your video.
I'm adjusting to a newly retired husband distraction. I like the grid. I'd be able to see how many blocks each day I can fill in that "count." Perfect timing.
I was searching a way to do the daily log in my journal, finally found it! You can ever color it and make it smaller, small grids and different colour for each activity, and you have room in page for notes... so adoptable! Thanks!
This is excellent! I'm a college student working two jobs, and I often feel like my day gets away from me when I try to plan. This might work for me. Thank you for sharing!
Nice! Love that Finn. Just a reminder that at the beginning I found it useful to reflect on the day rather than try to over-plan. Then once I understood the day's events I could do a better job of planning ahead!
very creative. I really like the idea that break one whole hour into four quarters. I will definitely give it a try! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
I love this system. I'm a productivity geek. and especially when they hit. I love the blocks one better though. Thank you. You're a great illustrator and trainer.
Hi Matt, I found one of ur vedio today. I'm so happy n started immediately downloading n watching ur vedios. I have seen so many bujo planning vedios. Urs r the best. Please do some more vedios like this to keep our life organized. Thank u sooooooo much.
really cool idea! I came across this a little late, but am still jumping into the challenge :) the pomodoro technieque doesn't work for me, so I've been trying to find other ways that can help me manage my time better. seeing too many blocks filled with 'youtube' might kick me into being more productive. Thanks Matt!
I have been using time tracker Checkiant for over a year now. It helps me see which behaviors and activities take longer, which has allowed me to restructure my workstyle to prioritize and become more effective.
Hi Matt, I liked this video. Little comment on your Maths: 24x4 is 96 (24 hours, 4 blocks of 15 minutes per hour). The idea went through nicely, nevertheless :)
Hiiii...I am so glad I found this video...😌😌 I am using that 15 mins incremental blocks as my planner page..I plan my whole day...and use that as a guideline to make my day more efficient... thank you so much for sharing this idea with us😍😍
@@MattRagland thanks for creating such content and best wishes for future as well. I am looking forward to learn many more things from you so please dont stop. 😊😊😊
This is fabulous! I personally love a 15-minute increment schedule, but I know it can be daunting for some. This is a great introductory method. I plan on sharing it with my teammates who never have any idea where their time went 😂
These videos have so much potential! Would love to see them be a bit more structured so that they appeal to more people because the content is really valuable! Thank you
I think it's brilliant! I really like the chronodex thing but this is so much easier to work with! Love it and I will definitely try it next week. Thank you very much :)
Great Idea! I have too many days where I say to myself... What did I accomplish? Where did the day go? Why does my life feel like a disaster? I would love to get a copy of your grids. Do you have them in a printable?
Matt, this is brilliant. I am so bad with time tracking. And I feel so overwhelmed when I try to keep track of it, but I guess doing this in a thin pocket notebook would work for me. I have been already trying to include 10-15 minutes of practice hours in my to-do list. I think it's going to work this time. I have a clear image of time tracking in my head now. Thank you so much :) I have a question, is there any way we can avoid procrastination with the help of journal or keeping a track separately? Something that can avoid second thoughts and procrastinating attitude? Please make a video, if so :)
This is AWESOME. Soo good for tracking your time as you do it. Great work. Also make a list of things you want to do. You just took up one of my 15 minute chunks hahah
Awesome system. Thanks for sharing! I will incorporate it into my journal too. But that 24 x 15 = 96 math though.. completely through me off for about 5 minutes haha.
Hey, really great video. All of them are. I've been watching all of your bullet journal videos from the beginning of 2018. I always look forward to them. Keep them coming. And if you could suggest some more of productivity or organisation related blogs and YT channels that'll be great.
Matt Ragland I feel like this is more for the person who's got it all figured out pretty much. Just that someone who has a totally flipped routine everyday, a bad sleep schedule, wouldn't be able to work with this exact grid and would have to improvise a lot. The basics remain the same though, I m really looking forward to improvising the grid for myself.
Sukh Mehak Kaur I understand that feeling, many days I don’t feel like I have it figured out too! Sleep schedules can be hard to work through, one good resource is Shawn Stevenson and his “Sleep Smarter” book. Check it out!
Soliddude Hermit yep I can certainly understand that, what I do is just batch all my “social” into a 15 minute block. It’s not always 100% accurate but helps me to stay on track!
I know this is an older video, but I am new to bullet journaling, time tracking and productivity planning. I found this very helpful and am wondering if you still use this blocking system ... have you made any modifications?
Woah! This is way too specific and I find it really trapped. Maybe this is what discipline looks like. I am unable to build a proper schedule for myself, everything is fairly disorganized. Being said that I really admire how perfect this looks and time management is so well done in this.
I'm a new subscriber and I definitely found this interesting and valuable, especially since this year I want to be more proactive/productive/intentional with my time
This is basically a Drucker Analysis. Peter Drucker was a a US Business/Management writer, probably his best known book is "The Effective Executive" (published 1967), who wrote a lot of time management for executives. At the time of him writing, what he called an executive was mostly what we would now call a knowledge worker, He talked a lot about prioritising your time and identifying your top two pirorities at the time (he also said that you should never have more than two goals at a time, you can have more long term goals than that but in terms of what you are actively working on no more than two and you don't start a new one until you've completed, abandoned or formally parked one of those goals). A Drucker Analysis is a tool he recommended where you every half hour (could be quarter hour or hour if that works better for how your day works, or just betwee one task and the next) make a note of what you worked on in that half hour. Just a couple of words, if you worked on a project then the name of the project task. At the end of the week you add up all the slots for each item. Whatever you sent the most time on is the thing you're treating as your top priority, second most time you're treating as second highest priority. Then you look at how valuable each thing is. I've done this with managers and they are often shocked at the result. Often the top two or three things are pointless administrivia tasks that either don't need doing or could be simplified (or, if you're a Tim Ferris devotee, delegated). Long meetings where they spend hours listenting to reports that have nothing to do with their work and maybe 10 minutes out of a 3 hour meeting are value additive for them are also probematic. The things that should be their top priorities, the things that generate value (which includes people management and enabling their team) are often 6th or 7th. It really helps focus the moind, possibly to free up time but also to make sure that where you are spending time is where it does the most good.
Pretty cool system! I've used the Pomodoro technique for work before, where you work for 25mins and have 5mins break and so on. Your ways seems to cover the whole day which I like, but wonder if that was somehow stressful? Imagining myself looking at the clock every 15mins just to see what I've been doing haha! Watching helpful RUclips videos like yours definitely takes 4 blocks a day for me :))) Thanks for sharing!!
AnastasiaOva totally! I don’t look every 15 minutes, just a reflective look-back 2-3 times a day. Thanks for spending a few of your daily blocks with me Anastasia!
It’s about finding time for something in the day, not strictly tracking it. You can plan work, fitness, commute and family, food in advance, and then you’ll see how much time you have for some extra activity that you want to do. If you have monthly schedule, you check the date and see whats scheduled (cleaning, pay bills, manicure lol), and if you still have some time, read, learn, spend it on whatever or whoever you want.
I love the idea of time tracking but it was difficult to keep up. Maybe I’ll watch it a few more times but I think in order to circumvent viewer overwhelm it’s good to break it down into bite sized chunks because I am new to bullet journaling but I am looking for structural ideas in order to initiate the process.
This video made me subscribe! I've watched a few of your videos on vlogging and productivity and I really like your ideas and approaches! I've been looking for a new approach to tracking my day and this seems like it could work! (It is funny, because 15 minutes intervals is how my job tracks our schedules too) I am thinking of using different notebooks for different systems and my question to you would be: what are the pros/cons of using different notebooks? Do you keep them on you all the time and fill them out simultaneously or keep your "main" one on you and leave the others at home? Keep up the great content!
Thanks for the video, have a question on how you follow up and adjust in the grid going forward if you end up spending time on other things then planned? And how you keep track on what you actually spent time on?
I'm trying to figure it how to structure the grid with a day job. From 730-4 day job. I guess I could add morning blocks, then annotate with a line or something for work day, then back to blocks for after work through until night. Your thoughts?
Well, sound a bit overboard, but I have to confess I started drawing a 5 day spread for myself as I was watching this. Been thinking about new ways to track time. Lets see how it goes
Hey Matt, I was thinking about implementing these time trackers into my Bullet Journal for 2019, as I lose time too easily i find, but I wasn't able to download the grids at your link, the download button wasn't working. I'm working off the grids demonstrated in the video now, just thought I'd let you know.
Hi Matt, loving your content! Really like your handwriting and your sketches. You communicate your ideas really well with your pen and paper! I’d be super keen to hear more about your work life and habits. I’d love to learn more about what you do for work and how you approach it. What do you use to film the overhead shots? 🙂
Christine Lo thanks Christine! Appreciate hearing that. I work at ConvertKit as a product analyst, can learn more at ConvertKit.com. I have a few older videos describing it too :) Need to update those though! For the overhead shots I have a rig set up, need to do an office tour it sounds like!
So real quick. I was following your math until you got to the 96 blocks. 24×15=360 not 96. You need to explain the logical connection between 100 '10'min blocks (16ish hours) and 96 '15' min blocks (24hrs) better or at least match the math, and then explain your method better, as well as explaining that you only sleep 7 hrs so that's why you have 28 blocks for that (15x28/60). Other than the skipped steps good video. Thanks👌 *UPDATE you explained it briefly after 👍
I wonder if I got it right away because I have tracked my day previously by doing color coordinated squares (each one half an hour) and that's a system I came up by myself. I stopped doing so because life got busier so colorful things would waste time
Okay so like this is super dope and I'm defiantly going to try this because this level of productivity is inspiring as hell, but like. Matt. Do you ever just... watch TV?
AUGUST you’re welcome, thanks for asking! To me the key is limiting not eliminating 🙂 Plus you’re the first one to call these videos “super dope” and that’s just my favorite compliment ever 👌🏼
Thanks for sharing your process to find a time tracking method, I'm glad you didn't just show the "finished" outcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one wrestling with finding a good time-tracking method while everyone else has it together. :-\ Like you, I prefer the 15 minute blocks. In the past with my attempts to track time, I've been more task specific up to the minute. I found it tedious and hard to keep up with. 10 minutes would have been too frequent for me to follow with and 30 minutes too broad. I came to watch this video after watching one of your future videos and really like what you've evolved your time-tracking process to be (ruclips.net/video/fgIkbfPgPdA/видео.htmlm20s). Grateful to you for taking the time to share your journey and information...keep em' coming!...when you can. :-)
Is this tracker for a "one time" research to determine where you spend your time? Or do you use this daily along side the 10 Block weekly layout? Edit: I saw the follow up video where you did combine both tools into one journal.
@@MattRagland Yes, it did. The grid is more detail/ micro view of your time. The 10 Blocks is the overarching view. It appears you would consolidate the grid timeline into the 10 Blocks. In my mind, I think you would document in the 10 Block "after" your workday. Is my thinking close or spot on?
As someone who works in professional services, we do our timesheet in 6 minute increments. I wish we could do 15 minutes but it's all about charging clients 😂
This is super interesting and inspiring, but my biggest question is that it seems quite rigid. How does your spouse/family respond to that? I realize there's room for flexibility, but being spontaneous here and there, not much it seems.
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Matt, I love this system so much. In fact I love it so much I included it in a video I shot (ruclips.net/video/W9szwGAWnvA/видео.html) to promote time management principles.
Far too often I let my most valuable resource slip by without even realizing it. Your 15 minute blocks will make sure they are accounted for so I can start maximizing every minute instead of wondering where all my time goes. Thank you. I included the link if you want to check out the vid.
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It's so refreshing to finally find useful content about planning. I'm so sick of the 'art journaling' planning of people flipping through their planners to show me their stickers collection, the new flower, and drawing their embellishment for HOURS. I'm not against embellishing but it kinda defeats the purpose of a planner when the MAIN focus of planning is embellishing if you know what I mean. I've been really looking for someone to actually SHOW how to use a productive system and this didn't disappoint. Thanks for sharing.
some people like decorating? don’t watch those then
I’ve just started looking into bullet journaling and found your videos. This all completely streamlines the system I’ve developed and feels like the clarity I’ve been searching for to help propel me forward in life. It answers where I have been stuck. I’ve been working on 15 minute blocks of time for quite a while, and have been great at this in some portions of the day, but get lost at others. Between bullet journaling and this time tracker, and the mini journal, finally I feel like my life will come together. Thank you
I just tracked the first 4 hours of my day and I see how my time is going to waste! Thanks so much. This is so helpful!
Awesome Jemele! Have a new time tracking challenge coming up in a few weeks, keep any eye out for the video announcement!
Thank you for your videos. Sometimes I do not get it right away. The best thing for me is I get to watch them repeatedly until I do get it.
Abbie Juett thanks for watching!
One of the best ways of tracking without spending too much time 😊 Very helpful!!
This is great as a weekly time tracker using both the 10 blocks concept and this time tracker to give a better idea of how much to shade in for the week. I just got my first bullet journal this week and am working the in's in out's of the methods of yours that make sense to me and I just had this idea and wanted to share. Thanks for this channel
I love it, its just what I need. Feel that I am "wasting" time during the day! Thanks for this, look forward to more awesome videos.
Candice Hume thanks Candice! I felt that way too, just a quick look back really helps!
I’ve never watched any of your videos before so not sure what kind of content you normally have, but this grid for timetracking is brilliant. I really struggle with time management and knowing where the heck my time goes. I’ll try this method and hopefully it’ll help me assign blocks of time to certain activities better. I’m 40 years old and in need of a damn chore chart.
SC Nurse glad you like it! I find it useful just to look back a few times a day and write in what I’ve been doing. My wife is a nurse and has been trying it out too.
So useful! I've been using the one your wife chose and it's helping me find pockets of time to write and produce music (my side hustle). Thanks so much, Matt!
Mary Shaw that’s great Mary!
I like this method for getting a perspective on where your time goes, and your example is very encouraging. I'm going to give it a try to see how I spend my time, but I don't expect to see many blocks of time for, say, a side-hustle. There are time-sucking activities that impinge upon nearly everyone's life that aren't considered here. Things like chores (laundry, dishes, cleaning), errands (shopping for groceries or clothes), periodic and occasional things like banking, paying bills, and household maintenance/repair. Then again, I might just be hand-wringing.
Thanks for the video, tips, and examples of how you tracked your time.
Thank you Matt for breaking time down to little blocks. Looking forward to the challenge. Wil
Ann Olson awesome, thanks Ann!
Just stumbled across this. Just like your wife, I'm loving the hour by hour view. I'm thinking I'm going to try that for work. I am an multi-departmental liaison so I have my hands in MANY projects and am constantly working on no less than 5 things a day. But there are days that I am exhausted at the end of the work day (which is normally 10-12 hours) and actually have the thought of "what did I even do today". This might help me with those times. Thanks for this nugget of info.
Matt.... I love your system. I tried a similar experiment recently for a week measuring my time in 10 min blocks. Made a video about it too.
Thank you for all your content Matt. I've binge watched a few times :)
@Dhishan Love your content!
Yes....new channel but great videos. Keep it up.
It’s always fascinating to me to see how people spend their time. It must be the consultant life, but no one I know works 9-5, most of us work 70 hr at least weeks, plus commute time, add in food, family, sleep...it’s basically work, eat, sleep mon thru fri, hope for 6 hrs a night of sleep, and if I get 2 hrs of downtime 10pm to midnight that’s a lot. Thanks for your video.
2:57 That's some shady maths right there... I think you meant 24*4, cause there's 4 15 minute blocks in an hour.
I was just thinking something similar 😂😂
I'm adjusting to a newly retired husband distraction. I like the grid. I'd be able to see how many blocks each day I can fill in that "count." Perfect timing.
Cindi Gay thanks Cindi!
I was searching a way to do the daily log in my journal, finally found it! You can ever color it and make it smaller, small grids and different colour for each activity, and you have room in page for notes... so adoptable! Thanks!
This is excellent! I'm a college student working two jobs, and I often feel like my day gets away from me when I try to plan. This might work for me. Thank you for sharing!
Nice! Love that Finn. Just a reminder that at the beginning I found it useful to reflect on the day rather than try to over-plan. Then once I understood the day's events I could do a better job of planning ahead!
Just what I needed right now, thank you!
Good stuff! At the end of the day, without self awareness (or feedback) we won't be able to change or improve. And who doesn't want to improve?
"My wife called it the nerdiest thing you've ever done"
He said with such proud on his face
I can't unsee the almost swastika in that running man! 😃
I track what I do with every 30-minute block every day and have for years. It keeps me on track.
Phillip Rhoades that’s awesome! Totally agree.
very creative. I really like the idea that break one whole hour into four quarters. I will definitely give it a try! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
I love this system. I'm a productivity geek. and especially when they hit. I love the blocks one better though. Thank you. You're a great illustrator and trainer.
Hi Matt, I found one of ur vedio today. I'm so happy n started immediately downloading n watching ur vedios. I have seen so many bujo planning vedios. Urs r the best. Please do some more vedios like this to keep our life organized.
Thank u sooooooo much.
Thanks for watching!
Very nice time tracking, packed and practical - thanks a lot Matt!
Harris Jedakis you’re welcome, thanks for watching!
Amazing idea - love it!
really cool idea! I came across this a little late, but am still jumping into the challenge :) the pomodoro technieque doesn't work for me, so I've been trying to find other ways that can help me manage my time better. seeing too many blocks filled with 'youtube' might kick me into being more productive. Thanks Matt!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
I have been using time tracker Checkiant for over a year now. It helps me see which behaviors and activities take longer, which has allowed me to restructure my workstyle to prioritize and become more effective.
I really really like this concept. I will definitely attempt to utilize this, moving forward.
Hi Matt, I liked this video. Little comment on your Maths: 24x4 is 96 (24 hours, 4 blocks of 15 minutes per hour).
The idea went through nicely, nevertheless :)
I initially thought I understood but the second time watching was confusing. Thanks for the comment!
I love this video! 💯Thank you for sharing knowledge. 🥰
Thanks for sharing this concept! Going to make a few modifications like keeping the 96 blocks to help track my sleep :)
This was exactly what I was looking for! I feel like I am doing a lot, but don't seem to have something to show..this will definitely help with tht
Sneha Kurup Nice! Love hearing that!
Great job Matt, truly enjoyed this!
Hiiii...I am so glad I found this video...😌😌 I am using that 15 mins incremental blocks as my planner page..I plan my whole day...and use that as a guideline to make my day more efficient... thank you so much for sharing this idea with us😍😍
Meghna Mishra so glad it’s helpful for you! Thanks for watching!
Matt, a wonderful idea to track the day, thanks!
Thisssssss is very goooodddd thanks for all the details 😊🤗🤗
I found your channel yesterday and i m really glad i did coz i learned few things from you and yes heading up for more thank you for this. Bless u😊😊😊
Thanks for watching!
@@MattRagland thanks for creating such content and best wishes for future as well. I am looking forward to learn many more things from you so please dont stop. 😊😊😊
This is fabulous! I personally love a 15-minute increment schedule, but I know it can be daunting for some. This is a great introductory method. I plan on sharing it with my teammates who never have any idea where their time went 😂
Very Interesting! Love that you do YNAB!!
Hill Reflects absolutely!
This might actually go better then my time tracking attempts did a few weeks ago. Thanks for the video
I ve been doing exactly same thing w/ google spreads!
it's really good to hear your story. thanks!
You're welcome!
I love this! And love how you track your time!!
Archita Desai thanks!
I am so fascinated by this! I can't wait to try it this week! 🤞🏼 Thank you for sharing this awesomeness 🤓
Thanks Dee!
These videos have so much potential! Would love to see them be a bit more structured so that they appeal to more people because the content is really valuable! Thank you
Thanks Tracy! Anything specific come to mind?
I think it's brilliant! I really like the chronodex thing but this is so much easier to work with! Love it and I will definitely try it next week. Thank you very much :)
Great Idea! I have too many days where I say to myself... What did I accomplish? Where did the day go? Why does my life feel like a disaster? I would love to get a copy of your grids. Do you have them in a printable?
ManySplendors yep in the description there’s a link to the printable!
@@MattRagland The link to your grids didn't work for me either.
@@donnaprisbrey1452 updated the link, sorry about that!
Matt, this is brilliant. I am so bad with time tracking. And I feel so overwhelmed when I try to keep track of it, but I guess doing this in a thin pocket notebook would work for me. I have been already trying to include 10-15 minutes of practice hours in my to-do list. I think it's going to work this time. I have a clear image of time tracking in my head now. Thank you so much :) I have a question, is there any way we can avoid procrastination with the help of journal or keeping a track separately? Something that can avoid second thoughts and procrastinating attitude? Please make a video, if so :)
I know this is a older video but super helpful
I like how he uses the back of the paper even the sharpie bleeds through !
This is AWESOME. Soo good for tracking your time as you do it. Great work. Also make a list of things you want to do. You just took up one of my 15 minute chunks hahah
Awesome system. Thanks for sharing! I will incorporate it into my journal too.
But that 24 x 15 = 96 math though.. completely through me off for about 5 minutes haha.
Haha yeah took me longer to make sure it was correct! Glad you dig it :)
Hey, really great video. All of them are. I've been watching all of your bullet journal videos from the beginning of 2018. I always look forward to them. Keep them coming. And if you could suggest some more of productivity or organisation related blogs and YT channels that'll be great.
Very complected!
Eye opening.. quite useful..Thank You..
What do you think of tracking your time? Do you have any questions about how I set everything up? Let me know!
Matt Ragland I feel like this is more for the person who's got it all figured out pretty much. Just that someone who has a totally flipped routine everyday, a bad sleep schedule, wouldn't be able to work with this exact grid and would have to improvise a lot. The basics remain the same though, I m really looking forward to improvising the grid for myself.
Sukh Mehak Kaur I understand that feeling, many days I don’t feel like I have it figured out too! Sleep schedules can be hard to work through, one good resource is Shawn Stevenson and his “Sleep Smarter” book. Check it out!
Hi Matt, how do you combine this time tracking method with the ten block system? How do they integrate each other? Thanks for your answer!
Soliddude Hermit yep I can certainly understand that, what I do is just batch all my “social” into a 15 minute block. It’s not always 100% accurate but helps me to stay on track!
Matt! I'd love to do your challenge but the button on your website doesn't work...HELP!
Thanks, Matt. Could you produce a video that shows the different sizes of journals you employ? It looks like you use three?
Thanks for the video. A great idea to track time.👏👏. Regards from Uruguay👋
ElRusitoTV glad you like it!
Very helpful. Thank you
I know this is an older video, but I am new to bullet journaling, time tracking and productivity planning. I found this very helpful and am wondering if you still use this blocking system ... have you made any modifications?
I like that ur reusing the page...gud habit
Woah! This is way too specific and I find it really trapped. Maybe this is what discipline looks like. I am unable to build a proper schedule for myself, everything is fairly disorganized.
Being said that I really admire how perfect this looks and time management is so well done in this.
I've been thinking about this lately.This video is perfect .Thank you much for the inspiration.
Thank you Anuya!
I'm a new subscriber and I definitely found this interesting and valuable, especially since this year I want to be more proactive/productive/intentional with my time
Happy to hear it! Lots more videos to come and recent ones to check out :D
This is basically a Drucker Analysis. Peter Drucker was a a US Business/Management writer, probably his best known book is "The Effective Executive" (published 1967), who wrote a lot of time management for executives. At the time of him writing, what he called an executive was mostly what we would now call a knowledge worker, He talked a lot about prioritising your time and identifying your top two pirorities at the time (he also said that you should never have more than two goals at a time, you can have more long term goals than that but in terms of what you are actively working on no more than two and you don't start a new one until you've completed, abandoned or formally parked one of those goals).
A Drucker Analysis is a tool he recommended where you every half hour (could be quarter hour or hour if that works better for how your day works, or just betwee one task and the next) make a note of what you worked on in that half hour. Just a couple of words, if you worked on a project then the name of the project task. At the end of the week you add up all the slots for each item. Whatever you sent the most time on is the thing you're treating as your top priority, second most time you're treating as second highest priority. Then you look at how valuable each thing is.
I've done this with managers and they are often shocked at the result. Often the top two or three things are pointless administrivia tasks that either don't need doing or could be simplified (or, if you're a Tim Ferris devotee, delegated). Long meetings where they spend hours listenting to reports that have nothing to do with their work and maybe 10 minutes out of a 3 hour meeting are value additive for them are also probematic. The things that should be their top priorities, the things that generate value (which includes people management and enabling their team) are often 6th or 7th. It really helps focus the moind, possibly to free up time but also to make sure that where you are spending time is where it does the most good.
Pretty cool system! I've used the Pomodoro technique for work before, where you work for 25mins and have 5mins break and so on. Your ways seems to cover the whole day which I like, but wonder if that was somehow stressful? Imagining myself looking at the clock every 15mins just to see what I've been doing haha! Watching helpful RUclips videos like yours definitely takes 4 blocks a day for me :))) Thanks for sharing!!
AnastasiaOva totally! I don’t look every 15 minutes, just a reflective look-back 2-3 times a day. Thanks for spending a few of your daily blocks with me Anastasia!
It’s about finding time for something in the day, not strictly tracking it. You can plan work, fitness, commute and family, food in advance, and then you’ll see how much time you have for some extra activity that you want to do. If you have monthly schedule, you check the date and see whats scheduled (cleaning, pay bills, manicure lol), and if you still have some time, read, learn, spend it on whatever or whoever you want.
@@matejaboltis9254 Correct approach to system,I agree it's not strictly tracking coz I am not Elon Musk kinda guy😂
This was really inspiring and helpful, thanks for making this video!! :)
SviraSvi you’re welcome, thanks for watching!
This is really helpful thank you.
Speedpaw you’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Me gustó mucho la idea. Gracias.
De nada 😄
With the quarantine, I have a lot of down time at work. So I’ll still fill it out with the personal projects I’m working on.
J'aime vraiment beaucoup, je commence à utiliser ce système
I love the idea of time tracking but it was difficult to keep up. Maybe I’ll watch it a few more times but I think in order to circumvent viewer overwhelm it’s good to break it down into bite sized chunks because I am new to bullet journaling but I am looking for structural ideas in order to initiate the process.
This video made me subscribe! I've watched a few of your videos on vlogging and productivity and I really like your ideas and approaches!
I've been looking for a new approach to tracking my day and this seems like it could work! (It is funny, because 15 minutes intervals is how my job tracks our schedules too)
I am thinking of using different notebooks for different systems and my question to you would be: what are the pros/cons of using different notebooks? Do you keep them on you all the time and fill them out simultaneously or keep your "main" one on you and leave the others at home?
Keep up the great content!
Matt Olive me too. I just subscribed. I missed the 5 day challenge prompt though. Highly interested.
Thanks for the video, have a question on how you follow up and adjust in the grid going forward if you end up spending time on other things then planned? And how you keep track on what you actually spent time on?
Thanks from sri lanka 🇱🇰
Its a good idea!!
I'm trying to figure it how to structure the grid with a day job. From 730-4 day job. I guess I could add morning blocks, then annotate with a line or something for work day, then back to blocks for after work through until night. Your thoughts?
Well, sound a bit overboard, but I have to confess I started drawing a 5 day spread for myself as I was watching this. Been thinking about new ways to track time. Lets see how it goes
Mariane Lima let me know how it goes Mariane!
Hey Matt, I was thinking about implementing these time trackers into my Bullet Journal for 2019, as I lose time too easily i find, but I wasn't able to download the grids at your link, the download button wasn't working. I'm working off the grids demonstrated in the video now, just thought I'd let you know.
Gryffin Syme thanks for the heads up, I’ll fix that!
Hi Matt, loving your content! Really like your handwriting and your sketches. You communicate your ideas really well with your pen and paper! I’d be super keen to hear more about your work life and habits. I’d love to learn more about what you do for work and how you approach it.
What do you use to film the overhead shots? 🙂
Christine Lo thanks Christine! Appreciate hearing that. I work at ConvertKit as a product analyst, can learn more at ConvertKit.com. I have a few older videos describing it too :) Need to update those though!
For the overhead shots I have a rig set up, need to do an office tour it sounds like!
Yes to both of those videos, please! Thanks so much for answering my questions! Look forward to learning more from you.
Thank you
Sounds like it could take a bit of time up maintain and update. But otherwise a simple way to account for used time after the fact.
Yep, that's the point - a mindful way to reflect on your time.
So real quick. I was following your math until you got to the 96 blocks.
24×15=360 not 96. You need to explain the logical connection between 100 '10'min blocks (16ish hours) and 96 '15' min blocks (24hrs) better or at least match the math, and then explain your method better, as well as explaining that you only sleep 7 hrs so that's why you have 28 blocks for that (15x28/60).
Other than the skipped steps good video. Thanks👌
*UPDATE you explained it briefly after 👍
I wonder if I got it right away because I have tracked my day previously by doing color coordinated squares (each one half an hour) and that's a system I came up by myself. I stopped doing so because life got busier so colorful things would waste time
I like that too! Makes sense to do what works for you :)
Why did you take blocks off for sleep when sleep was already deducted at the start?
Funny - I'm sure it is already in the comments but 24 * 15 != 96. 96 is the correct number of blocks but it is 24 * 4.
Plz tell how we are actually going to track the 15 minutes throughout the day
Okay so like this is super dope and I'm defiantly going to try this because this level of productivity is inspiring as hell, but like. Matt. Do you ever just... watch TV?
I do, but really try to keep it less than 30 minutes a day at the most :) Watching Billions right now!
Matt Ragland That's really reassuring, actually, haha. Thanks for replying!
AUGUST you’re welcome, thanks for asking! To me the key is limiting not eliminating 🙂
Plus you’re the first one to call these videos “super dope” and that’s just my favorite compliment ever 👌🏼
What's a sign that you are a productivity nerd? You don't have hobbies, you only have side hustles :D
What is the pen that you use here?
Thanks for sharing your process to find a time tracking method, I'm glad you didn't just show the "finished" outcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one wrestling with finding a good time-tracking method while everyone else has it together. :-\ Like you, I prefer the 15 minute blocks. In the past with my attempts to track time, I've been more task specific up to the minute. I found it tedious and hard to keep up with. 10 minutes would have been too frequent for me to follow with and 30 minutes too broad.
I came to watch this video after watching one of your future videos and really like what you've evolved your time-tracking process to be (ruclips.net/video/fgIkbfPgPdA/видео.htmlm20s). Grateful to you for taking the time to share your journey and information...keep em' coming!...when you can. :-)
Is this tracker for a "one time" research to determine where you spend your time? Or do you use this daily along side the 10 Block weekly layout?
Edit: I saw the follow up video where you did combine both tools into one journal.
Thanks, did it make more sense with the extra video?
@@MattRagland Yes, it did. The grid is more detail/ micro view of your time. The 10 Blocks is the overarching view. It appears you would consolidate the grid timeline into the 10 Blocks. In my mind, I think you would document in the 10 Block "after" your workday. Is my thinking close or spot on?
hi matt, i tried to download the template but it doesn't work
As someone who works in professional services, we do our timesheet in 6 minute increments. I wish we could do 15 minutes but it's all about charging clients 😂
6 minutes!? Mercy.
@@MattRagland don't become an accountant 😂😭🤪
This is super interesting and inspiring, but my biggest question is that it seems quite rigid. How does your spouse/family respond to that? I realize there's room for flexibility, but being spontaneous here and there, not much it seems.
I am unable to download. Please help !!
You make this in advance or you do this after the event is over