With his free time now identified, Stephen can begin to time label his to-dos. Here is his thought process:
In between class, from 10:30 to 11:00, I can squeeze in my three small tasks—pay cell phone bill, buy a birthday gift for Dad, and return Mark's CD. After my second class, I will need to get lunch, but then I should get right to work on my Government reading because it's due tomorrow! Let's see, I have three Government articles to read, which will realistically take two hours, so I will label this task with 1:00 to 3:00. Hmmmm, I am running out of time here. I need to start that Econ problem set because those suck, and it's due Wednesday morning, so I'll label that task with 3:00 to 4:30. Okay, I am down to my final half hour. What else has to get done? My Anthro paper topic is due tomorrow, so I will have to squeeze that in at 4:30 to 5:00. And that's all I have time for.
At this point, Stephen is almost done. All that's left is taking care of the still-unscheduled to-dos by moving them to future dates. Remember, these include both the unscheduled tasks recorded for the current day and the "things to remember" items from yesterday's list.
