A twist on matrix task categorisation

I am typing here while my spouse sleeps and I ought to settle. I’m finding it hard to let go of the weekend and accept the week ahead. Monday’s in particular are input-heavy days with many stakeholder meetings; combined this week with both school runs, a cricket club pickup and dragging all the kids to my eldest’s drama audition ... I am dreading the day. I worked a bit late on Fri and a little tonight just to try and make the week land somehow. I can’t face typing up my week notes, so I will post below something I have started trying this week: a new way for me to categorise tasks. This takes an odd turn from the classic Eisenhower matrix and ends up more in the space of “how I need to plan my time”. Below are the categories under which I list out tasks. The colours just relate to the highlighter pens I had to hand :-). The blue, green and purple categories can be treated as a single task in the red category; e.g. by grouping a load of nudge emails in one block of time. You can still…