The Method

time·box (·x)

v.to assign a time and duration to any task.

One small shift: decide when each thing happens, not just what. It’s one of the best-evidenced habits in productivity research. Three findings, and how Timeboxx pays each one off.

Deciding when nearly doubles follow-through.

Across 94 studies, giving a task a concrete time and place had one of the largest effects psychology has measured on whether it actually gets done.

Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006 · meta-analysis, 94 studies

In Timeboxx every task gets a real start time

Multitasking is a myth.

Switching tasks can cost up to 40% of your productivity, and it takes about 23 minutes to fully refocus after an interruption.

APA · Rubinstein, Meyer & Evans, 2001 · Gloria Mark, UC Irvine

In Timeboxx one block, one task, apps hushed

Average time to refocus after an interruption

Written down and tracked gets done.

In a study of goal achievement, people who wrote their goals down and tracked progress reached them far more often than those who just thought about them.

Matthews, Dominican University, 2015

In Timeboxx your plan tracks itself as you go

Reached their goals

Just thought about it43%

Wrote it down62%

Wrote it + tracked it76%

The payoff

Evidence is only useful if the tool makes it effortless.

Timeboxx handles the parts that make timeboxing fall apart: assigning times, re-planning when things run long, and staying off the apps that pull you away.

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