A to-do list tells you *what* to do. A time-blocked calendar tells you *when*. The second one wins.
Step 1 — Categorise your work
Group tasks into 3–5 buckets: Deep Work, Shallow (email/admin), Meetings, Personal, Buffer.
Step 2 — Block the day
Open LemTask's Day Schedule panel (calendar icon). Drag a task onto the timeline to create a block. Colour by category.
Step 3 — Protect Deep Work first
Schedule your hardest work into your 2 peak hours (usually mid-morning) before anything else grabs them.
Step 4 — Leave buffer
Block 25% of the day as unscheduled buffer for overruns, urgent asks, and thinking time. Fully-packed schedules always fail.
Step 5 — Reconcile at end of day
What blocks got done? What overran? Adjust tomorrow's blocks based on the truth, not the fantasy.
Google Calendar sync is two-way — LemTask blocks appear on your calendar and calendar events show in your schedule so you can time-block around meetings.