How the Time Grid Works
The 24 hour clock is elegant, but unintuitive. Few people think in terms of 12 or 24, whereas people often think in halves and quarters. Assuming that everyone needs roughly 8 hours of sleep a night, let’s define your waking day as 16 hours and arrange those hours in a 4 x 4 grid, with each major quadrant representing 4 hours each. We can divide each hour by 4 again to get 15 minute increments. The quadrants, hours, and increment cells advance from left to right then top to bottom, moving on to the next mini grid once the hour is complete. (Tab through the cells to see the order). The pulsating cell shows the current time of day, with the first and last cell set to 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. by default. You can type in each cell to plan out your day, write down what happened, or do anything else your heart desires.
Congratulations! You can now see at a glance whether an activity is taking up half of your time, a quarter, 1/8, etc. One cell represents 1/64th of a day, so if you spend one cell’s worth of time on something every day, it will take up 1/64th of your life.