Time Plans

Time plans are plans that you make for a particular time period. It is a committment you make that in a certain period of time, you're going to accomplish certain things. This is either making progress or finishing altogether some inbox tasks or big plans.

While inbox tasks and big plans as they are capture the totality of the work that you know of, and even assign due dates or active dates to them, time plans make an explicit attempt at placing all this work in time, and committing to it.

The association between an inbox task or big plan and a time plan, is called an activity. A time plan can be said to be the collection of its activities.

Time plans are also closely linked with journals. Whereas journals are backward looking, time plans are forward looking.

Properties

Time plans are written on a particular day for a particular period interval. The period can be one of:

• Daily: the day's plan
• Weekly: the week's plan, as recorded on the particular day.
• Monthly: the month's plan, as recorded on the particular day.
• Quarterly: the quarter's plan, as recorded on the particular day.
• Yearly: a whole year's plan, as recorded on the particular day.

Only one journal can exist for a particular day and period combination.

Time plans also have a written document attached to them, so you can add thoughts that don't fit as neatly into the activities format.

An activity has a target, which is either an inbox task or a big plan.

Activities also have a kind, which can be:

• Finish: you plan on finishing this activity during the period.
• Make Progress: you plan on making progress during the period.

Activities also have a feasability, which can be:

• Must Do: it is very important that you make the required progress on the activity during the period.
• Nice To Have: if you can make progress, it's good, if not, no worries.
• Stretch: very unlikely to make progress.

Finally activities have a measure of doneness withing the time plan. This is not something that can be judged at the level of a single activity, but requires looking at the whole thing.

• Inbox tasks of a finish kind are considered done if they are in either the done or not done status, and this occurred during the time plan's period.
• Inbox tasks of a make progress kind are considered done if there is some modification of the inbox tasks during the time plan's period.
• Big plans of a finish kind are considered done if they are in either the done or not done status, and this ocurred during the time plan's period.
• Big plans of a make progress kind are considered done if all the inbox tasks associated with it in the time plan are considered done, or if there are no such tasks if there is some modification done during the time plan's period.