Time Blocking on Google Calendar

There is a lot of talk about "time-blocking" in calendar apps, among today's productivity pundits, as a way of planning out one's day.

How it works.

Scheduling yourself in your app, almost as if Calendar was the To-Do-List(Tasks).

Almost.

Usually color-coded chunks of time, with each portion being sometimes not very specific.

For instance, a block could be, not specific details about a task, but a very generic label, such as "project a", instead of being more particular in the description of the planned time.

What I've been doing is a little different, and a bit more haphazard.

I've been using the Google Calendar paid version to act as a kind of journal in shorthand code.  In other words, I don't transcribe a task into the app until AFTER its complete.

(The same thing can be done manually in the free version of Google Calendar by manually selecting the colors of particular entries when creating them.)

The idea is that its sort of a "time log", the calendar, and prior days can be looked back on for future reference, for sake of, perhaps, improving productivity going forward.  He who masters the past controls the future, it is said; or better still, he who has learned the lessons of the past is adequately prepared for the future.

The idea behind using the paid version in the Google vernacular, is the different calendars, as if there were more than person using the acct in the app.  

(The Many Calendars Of Mister Effective).

Sample Calendar Ideas:

A work calendar.  

Or a specific project calendar.

A family time calendar.

Or anything else.

And best of all, one click can make the particular calendar disappear or re-appear.

Again: ON THE FREE VERSION.

Beyond that, one "calendar" can be used on the one acct, as per the free version of the app.  

How to get around that is to manually change the colors of different items, as need.  Even if you don't have colors assigned to particular types of items, which would be very useful, you can at least vary the color almost at random to make the different time slots seem more obviously different.

Else, the blue of the regular calendar tends to make takes "bleed together" or blend into one mess if one simply glances at the calendar.

Much more visually effective to differentiate with various colors.