Time-Blocking on Time Blokker

Time Blokker vs Structured: which day planner is right for you?

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two visual day planners, both built around the idea that your to-do list should sit on a timeline you can see. They look similar from the outside. They solve different problems.

I should say upfront: I’m the developer of Time Blokker. I built it because the planners I tried kept failing me in the same way, and I’ll get to that. But I’m not going to pretend Structured is bad. It’s a genuinely good app with a polish I admire and a feature list longer than mine. If you read this and pick Structured, that’s fine. This isn’t a sales pitch. It’s me trying to save you the week I spent bouncing between apps before I gave up and wrote my own.

Time Blocking with ADHD: Why visual planning works

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You look at your task list. Six items:

Write the email
Finish the proposal
Call the dentist
Review the PR
Fix the bug
Pick up groceries.

You’ve been here before. The list is fine. The list is always fine.

What you can’t tell from the list is whether those six things take two hours or eight. The email might be a quick reply or a three-round negotiation. The bug might be a typo or a four-day rabbit hole. The list doesn’t say. So you start on the email, and somewhere around 2pm you realize the morning is gone and you’ve done one item, and the other five now feel impossible. Not because they are impossible. But because the list never told you what it cost.

Why your day plan breaks (and how to fix it)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You time-blocked the whole day. Ninety minutes for the proposal, a short break, then client work until lunch, then the bug list in the afternoon. You felt good looking at it. Twenty minutes in, a call comes in. “Just fifteen minutes,” they say.

Forty-five minutes later you hang up. The proposal slot is gone. The break is gone. Everything after it is now wrong by forty-five minutes, and every block on the screen is a small accusation. You cross out the timings and redo them by hand. Or you drag each calendar entry down, one by one, until the plan looks honest again.

Time Blocking for beginners: A simple start guide

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Time blocking is just deciding what you’re going to do and when you’re going to do it. Not as a vague intention, but as actual blocks on your calendar. “Work on the report, 9 to 11.” “Lunch, 12 to 1.” “Email and admin, 3 to 4.” That’s it. You stop running off a flat to-do list and start running off a plan that lives in time.

Why it works

A to-do list lies to you. It says “reply to Marc, finish the proposal, book the dentist, pick up groceries, write the blog post” and makes it all look the same. Five lines, five items, seems fine. But one of those takes ten minutes and another takes four hours, and the list has no way to show you that. So you start at the top, feel good crossing off the quick stuff, and hit 3pm with the big thing untouched. (If you have ADHD, this is even worse — time blocking with ADHD explains why your brain reads these lists even less accurately.)