Aidoneus’s Time-Synchronized Day Schedule
About this template
What Is A Time-Synchronized Day And Week Schedule?
I created this template to counter a very specific set of issues. #1. I struggled with using normal time blocking because I felt it didn't have enough customization for my liking and what I wanted to do. #2. Having ADHD, I didn't want to forget to click a checkbox or look at a static page/database for my hour to hour schedule and get side tracked from being productive. That's where this template originated.
● Time-Synchronized Day Schedule
I won't bore you with the technical, the long and short of it? Just plan your week in the "Plan The Week" section, and every day all your events on that day show up in the "Today's Schedule" area (favorite that page, you'll thank me later 😉). Broken down into current events, upcoming events, and events already passed for that day. The events here change automatically according to the event time and current hour, so once you've setup a week you can just refer to your day schedule at a glance.
I should probably explain why this is such a focus here. Not only do the events rotate in and out based on the hour, but very technically, you don't even have to set a date! If there's no date, it defaults to a no date section to drag and drop to your weekly calendar. However, this was designed to accomodate ADHD remember? Forgetfulness is a very BIG issue for me. I wanted to counter this issue of forgetting to set a date just in case, but also having the event on my weekly schedule. Normally, this wouldn't work. However, I've tied the time tags to the same system as the date/time. So whether you forget to set the date or the tag, your event should still show up in your day schedule!
● Integrated Hot-Swap Time-Blocking
To make time blocking a bit more customizable, I turned the time-blocks of a traditional chart into main groups, and the weekly chart into more detailed events as sub-groups. They're color-coded to show the connections. Ex. Food Break is a main category and is orange on the time-block chart, so your event in the weekly schedule section would have the orange subcategory tags Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner.
I like this system because it acts like a hot-swap. On any day if I'm not feeling an activity that isn't required, I can change it out on the fly with any other related activity according to subgroup.
● Integrated Reminders
There's an easily accessed area on the main dashboard dedicated to the current months quick reminders, or events with few details specifically used only to set a time and date with a reminder set in notion. Simply make an event, set the time and reminder time (don't forget!) for it and it'll sit there until you click done. Complete with time, date, duration (if needed?) and countdowns. They're togglable to see in your day schedule or overall calendar view and there's also an archive view for easily checking any previous reminders. Just in case you need to check further than the current month the dashboard shows.
● Integrated Appointment Scheduling
Like the reminders, appointments you log sit on the dashboard for ease of access and visibility and are logged in the monthly calendar view for further viewing than the current month.
