How should you plan your day?

How to decide and order what to do today (one main thing, time-blocking the day, planning versus doing).

Axis: pick one main thing and protect it … plan every hour of the day

Answers by date: 2 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2024), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2024-05-16	Ali	Ali phrases the daily highlight as "what's today's adventure going to be": to be productive you have to enjoy the process, and reframing a task as an adventure makes that more likely.	The Simplest and Most Important Productivity Tip 😉 00:00:00
2020-06-03	Ali	After work Ali does the highlight he set for the day in Notion that morning; on days without one, he looks through Notion, Todoist, the sponsored-video schedule and the Skillshare class release schedule to pick the best use of the next few hours.	All the Apps I Use in a Day 00:06:19