Time Management

A daily schedule is one of the most powerful planning techniques out there — right up there with the classic to-do list. It gives you real control over your time and helps you make the most of every hour. But when it comes to actually building one, most people hit a wall. Which tasks go where? What order should they be in? How much time do you give each one?

When you learn what the most expensive productivity advice in history cost, you’ll want to know both the advice itself and how to give advice that valuable.

Keep forgetting meetings, can’t start a task to save your life, or abandon every planner app within a week? It might not be laziness — it might be how your brain is wired. Here’s what ADHD actually looks like in adults, why planning feels impossible, and which app settings actually make a difference.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a prioritization method that evaluates tasks on two criteria: importance and urgency. Tasks are sorted into a simple four-quadrant grid based on these criteria.

If you can’t remember what you did by Friday, keep missing deadlines because of “surprises,” and dream about the gym but “don’t have time” — this one’s for you. We break down why the week is the perfect planning horizon and show you exactly how to build a working system in SingularityApp. Bonus: cheat sheets and a quick-start algorithm.

GTD (Getting Things Done) is David Allen’s task management methodology — the system that inspired Building a Second Brain, Bullet Journaling, and countless other planning frameworks. In this article, we’ll show you how to conquer inbox chaos, walk you through the 5-question task processing algorithm, explain how to actually use your Someday list, and share tips so your system doesn’t fall apart after a month.