Timeblocking

Franklin avidly detailed the activities he would undertake every hour of the day, including rest and chores.

It is based on a single-tasking mindset, promoting devoting one's full attention to a task for a specified duration of time.

Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University has stated, Sometimes people ask why I bother with such a detailed level of planning.

Timeblocking encourages allocating deliberate time away from the desk, reducing the chance of employee burnout.

[8] Finally, timeblocking creates a sense of artificial urgency to get each task done in a predetermined amount of time which may help some users accomplish more in the same time period, with one study finding that professionals who timeblock accomplish 53% more tasks than otherwise.

In an interview in 2014, he has supported timeblocking by stating, "yesterday I blocked my calendar for two different time slots to work on a project.