Field notes · 168
The Blog.
Essays and short guides on living a 168-hour week. Weekly when we have something honest to say, never on a schedule.
Time tracking without streaks (and why streaks backfire)
Streaks are good at habit-forming and bad at honesty. Here's how to track time without them — and why most reflective people prefer it.
How to budget your time like money
The same five steps that work for a household budget work for the week. Allocate, log, review, adjust, repeat.
What is a time-budget app?
A time-budget app treats your week like money. You allocate hours before you spend them, log what you actually did, and read a receipt.
How many hours are in a week?
168 hours. Here's where they go, and why most of us never see them as a budget.