Group weekly tasks under parent objectives, allocate best…

Schedule your week by grouping tasks under their parent objectives, then allocating best hours to goal-one tasks, next-best hours to goal-two tasks, with unconnected tasks either scheduled last or eliminated.

When This Fires

During weekly planning sessions
When the to-do list is long and undifferentiated — grouping reveals what actually matters
When important work consistently loses to busy-work in the weekly schedule
Complements Tasks inherit their parent objective's priority — trace… (task-level priority inheritance) with the weekly time-allocation implementation

Common Failure Mode

Flat-list scheduling: sorting all tasks by deadline regardless of parent objective. The resulting week serves many low-priority objectives while high-priority objectives get fragmented scraps of time. Grouped scheduling ensures the highest-priority objective's tasks get the best and most time, not just whatever is left.

The Protocol

(1) List all tasks for the week. (2) Group under parent objectives: which objective does each task serve? Create clusters. (3) Identify orphans: tasks that don't fit under any objective. Question each: eliminate if possible, schedule last if necessary. (4) Allocate time tiers: Goal 1 tasks → peak hours (mornings, high-energy blocks). Goal 2 tasks → next-best hours (late morning, early afternoon). Goal 3+ tasks → remaining capacity (post-lunch, end of day). Orphans → whatever's left, if anything. (5) Block the calendar following this allocation. Goal 1 tasks occupy the best time slots before anything else is scheduled.