Planning, in plain words.
Short, sourced explanations of the methods people use to plan their time — and how each one works in Needt.
Context switching
Context switching is shifting attention from one task to another, and the time and focus lost each time your mind has to drop one set of goals and load a different one.
Read moreTermDeep work
Deep work is focused, distraction-free effort on a cognitively demanding task, the kind that pushes your skills and produces work that is hard to replicate, as defined by Cal Newport.
Read moreTermEat the frog
Eat the frog means doing your most important and most avoided task first, before anything else, so the rest of the day is easier and the hard task can’t be postponed again.
Read moreTermEisenhower Matrix
The Eisenhower Matrix is a two-by-two grid that sorts tasks by whether they are urgent and whether they are important, giving four actions: do now, schedule, delegate, or drop.
Read moreTermGetting Things Done (GTD)
Getting Things Done (GTD) is David Allen’s method of capturing every commitment outside your head, deciding each one’s next physical action, and organizing those actions into trusted lists you review weekly.
Read moreTermParkinson's law
Parkinson’s law is the observation that work expands to fill the time available for its completion: give a task a week and it takes a week, give it a day and it often fits.
Read moreTermPlanning fallacy
The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate how long our own tasks will take, even when we know similar tasks ran over before, because we picture the plan instead of past outcomes.
Read moreTermPomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that splits work into 25-minute focused intervals called pomodoros, each followed by a short break, with a longer break after every four.
Read moreTermTask batching
Task batching is grouping similar small tasks, such as email, calls, invoices or errands, and doing them together in one dedicated block instead of scattering them across the day.
Read moreTermTimeboxing
Timeboxing is deciding in advance how much time a task gets, working on it only inside that window, and stopping when the time runs out, finished or not.
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