Another Organization Method

I am intrigued by this timeblocking method. I tend to have two categories of work: shallow work and deep work. Shallow work is made up of small tasks I can fit around a meeting. Or it doesn’t matter if I’m interrupted by a phone call. Deep work is stuff like big reports or deep dives into data. I want to work for hours on the same thing without interruption.

But this is giving each task you have to do a label: Must is everything that has to get done that day. Should is the stuff that you should do that day but it’s not critical if it gets pushed back a day. Could is the stuff that you could do that day or you could do it another day. Won’t is the stuff you’re not going to do, but you’re tracking it so you don’t forget that you considered it. There’s always a chance you’ll loop back to your won’ts in the future.

I was trying to figure out how this fits with shallow and deep work because there are shallow musts and deep coulds. But it made me start thinking about my week as a whole: could I create Must blocks and Should blocks and Could blocks, and scatter those through the week?

Food for thought.