Time Blocking Actually Works. Here's Why Nothing Else Did.
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I have tried everything.
To-do lists. Color-coded to-do lists. Apps that gamify to-do lists. Getting Things Done, the full David Allen system, with the inboxes and the contexts and the weekly reviews. Pomodoro timers. Bullet journals. A paper planner with a leather cover that cost more than my first apartment's coffee table.
None of it survived contact with a real workday. Except one thing.