Should you batch similar tasks together?
Grouping similar tasks, filming or admin days.
Axis: batch similar tasks … do each task as it comes
Answers by date: 3 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2021), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-28 | Ali | Ali batched his video work: a writing day for the bullet-point talking points of his next 10 to 20 videos, then filming many of them in one day once the equipment was set up. | How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time 00:01:27 |
| 2021-07-04 | Ali | Ali once filmed one YouTube video at a time; now he has one filming day a week, on Thursdays, when he films two, three or even four videos, because setting up lights and camera and getting himself ready takes so long. | Productivity for Lazy People - The RAD System 00:04:52 |
| 2021-07-04 | Ali | Ali's third way to reduce is batching similar tasks together, a standard productivity idea he first came across in Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. | Productivity for Lazy People - The RAD System 00:04:22 |