# Beeminding time blocking?
**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273
**Category:** Akrasia
**Created:** [May 7, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273 "2021-05-07T19:00:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/1 "2021-05-07T19:00:22Z")
Has anyone successfully beeminded Cal Newport-style time blocking? How did/do you do it?
[https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-importance-of-planning-every-minute-of-your-work-day/](https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-importance-of-planning-every-minute-of-your-work-day/)
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/2 "2021-05-07T19:32:02Z")
Eventually I’d really like to build TaskRatchet into a tool that’s effective for doing Cal Newport-style deep work. I think you could already do it now, for instance, by creating a Beeminder goal `deep` and then tagging deep blocks in TaskRatchet with an `&deep` or `*deep` tag. However there’s currently just so much friction to building out a day plan using TaskRatchet that I think there’s a lot of room for improvement in how well it works for that use case. But I really want to get there.
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### Author:  [@aliceofbattenberg](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aliceofbattenberg)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/3 "2021-05-09T10:03:21Z")
I haven’t integrated it with anything, but on the days when I do time blocking I use the “Day Planner” plugin with Obsidian. I find it more flexible and editable than pen/paper or even a Google Calendar. I found it because I already use Obsidian as a knowledge database. You just input your tasks and times in a checkbox list and it outputs a dynamic calendar. I’m not a very skilled programmer, but because Obsidian uses locally stored markdown files I imagine it might be possible to link to an API.
Edit to provide a link to the “Day Planner” readme: [obsidian-day-planner/README.md at main · lynchjames/obsidian-day-planner · GitHub](https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-day-planner/blob/main/README.md)
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### Author:  [@bizzle](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bizzle)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/4 "2021-05-09T13:49:15Z")
Someone has done similar to @aliceofbattenberg Obsidian but for RemNote. [GitHub - hannesfrank/remnote-schedule: A plugin for RemNote to visualize your daily schedule.](https://github.com/hannesfrank/remnote-schedule) using CrushEntropy syntax [https://crushentropy.com/](https://crushentropy.com/)
My other thought would be if there was a way to integrate Toggl. You can already do tracking with specific tags so could have a toggl track your plannned hours (“planned” tag) of the day and then toggl track/Rescuetime your actual hours? Toggl already ties into Beeminder and has an API so maybe that is a direction to go in?
Not sure whether this would actually work or not as not tried it
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/5 "2021-05-09T21:44:53Z")
Wow, this stuff is super neat, thanks for pointing it out! I had no idea these plugins existed for note apps.
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### Author:  [@gandwar](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gandwar)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/6 "2021-05-10T11:36:54Z")
I’m integrating my TickTick with Beeminder via Zapier. My goal is to have 8 daily deep work pomodoros, so I just check them off once I’m done. They are just tasks tagged with “pomodoro”, named 1 through 8 accordingly. They’re set to be reoccurring daily.
I’m currently contemplating using Toggl for that though.
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### Author:  [@gibranmahmud](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gibranmahmud)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-time-blocking/9273/7 "2023-04-17T14:44:33Z")
It would be helpful if someone provided a guide on how to implement this. I’ve tried and failed to follow the instructions on the page for installation. This probably has something to do with me having 0% coding knowledge.