I feel free to ask - can you maybe explain this 'snail'-hour-planning thing? How to do it amd all? :) thank you!
Sure! For anyone who doesn’t know, anon is talking about this:
It’s called spiraldex. You can print one out from Google! I’ve resized mine a bit because I wanted it to be small to fit in my journal.
There are plenty of ways you can use it. It has 24 circles to write time in. You can do a 24 hour clock or a 12 hour clock very easily. I did 12 hours because I don’t feel the need to plan all 24 of my hours.
You just print it out and write the times in the little circles. You can start as early as you want, but since I only did 12 hours, I started a little later in the day (at 10:00 A.M.). The yellow in the center represents me waking up and starting my day prior to doing the work as scheduled in my spiraldex. Some people include a “wake up” section of their spiraldex, but I wanted to save the space!
Then you make a color-coded key. I made my psychology class blue, language app green, reading pink, leisure time purple, and night routine orange. Some of the colors didn’t show up very well on the scanned image, but they are all on there!
You just color in the section for how long you plan to do that activity. For example, Psychology of Intimate Relationships was colored in from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M, Mango (language app) was colored in from 4-5, leisure from 5-8 (as I said, very slow day), reading from 8-9, and night routine from 9-10.
This was my first spiraldex, and I really do like the idea of it. I wouldn’t use a spiraldex everyday because less busy days don’t really need a timed schedule. But for when class is back in session or those of you who are really busy, this is an amazing way to plan your time. It’s also great for time management, so if you think you spend too much time online or other leisure activities, this is a good way to stay productive.
Sunday was pretty lazy for me. All I really did was homework. I probably won’t use it again until the fall semester, but it’s a great way to keep track of time!
Here are some videos on the spiraldex and how to use it, just in case this was unclear:
How To Use A Spiraldex (Great explanation!)
organizeandstudy‘s Spiraldex Guide
premed-etal‘s Explanation
You can also use a chronodex, which is similar, but I ~personally~ like the spiraldex better.
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