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How to Plan Your Day in 15 Minutes (Timeboxing Workflow)

A five-step morning routine: capture inbox, pick Big 3 priorities, timebox on a timeline, run focus timers, and reflect at night. Works with DayBox on iPhone.

Step 1 — Brain dump (3 minutes)

Open your inbox and capture everything floating in your head: replies, errands, deep work, follow-ups. Do not schedule yet—just get it out of working memory.

DayBox inbox is designed for speed so capture never becomes its own procrastination ritual.

Step 2 — Choose your Big 3 (2 minutes)

Mark up to three must-dos for today. These are the outcomes that would make the day feel successful even if everything else slips.

When the calendar gets noisy, the Big 3 keep your timeline honest about trade-offs.

Step 3 — Timebox on a timeline (7 minutes)

Drag tasks into blocks around existing meetings. Give each block a realistic duration—if a task needs two hours, split it across two blocks instead of pretending you have a free afternoon.

DayBox shows hours vertically so gaps and overload are visible before the day starts.

Step 4 — Focus one block at a time

Start the timer from the active timebox. When a meeting runs long, drag the block—guilt-free rescheduling beats abandoning the whole plan.

One running timer prevents the common trap of tracking five tasks mentally at once.

Step 5 — Reflect and roll forward (3 minutes)

At day end, compare planned vs. actual focus time and note whether the Big 3 landed. Push unfinished blocks to tomorrow in a tap.

Reflection closes the loop so each morning plan gets smarter—not stricter.

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