Deep Work Week Planner
Protect time for work that matters. Plans your week with deep work blocks, batched shallow work and a shutdown ritual, inspired by Cal Newport.
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Help me plan a week built around deep work, inspired by Cal Newport's ideas in Deep Work and his approach to time blocking and multi-scale planning. Explain in plain words; don't role-play the author.
Input: my priorities for the week, fixed meetings and commitments, and my working hours. Check my docs for open projects and deadlines.
1. Clarify the 1-3 most important outcomes this week, connected to my bigger goals for the quarter if I've written them down. 2. Schedule deep work blocks: 60-120 minutes of focused, distraction-free work on hard problems, at the times my energy is best. Protect them like meetings. 3. Batch shallow work: email, messages and admin go into a few fixed slots instead of all day. 4. Build a time-blocked plan for each day as a table, with buffer time. 5. A shutdown ritual for the end of each day: review tasks, plan tomorrow, close loops. 6. Rules for the week: when I check email and chat, and what I'll say no to.
Be realistic. Deep work is hard, and 3-4 hours a day is a great result for most people.
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