Fokuno for school and university
A school week has fixed appointments, exams with dates and a lot in between. Fokuno fills the free hours, so you don’t have to decide every evening what to start with.
Your week, not an empty calendar
Fokuno starts from your everyday life: classes, training, appointments. During setup you say when you want to work. The default fits school: Monday to Friday 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm, weekends 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Fokuno only puts blocks in those times, and at most three hours of head work a day. Around every appointment 15 minutes stay free, so you don’t fall from the bus ride straight into the next block.
You bring your timetable along as a calendar. If you have it as an .ics file, you import it directly. Events from Outlook or Apple Calendar work if you add them to Google Calendar. For each calendar you decide whether its events take up time: the timetable yes, the calendar with the birthdays no.
Tasks in one line
You write down what is coming up the way you would tell a friend: “Biology summary 45 min by Thursday”. Fokuno picks out duration and deadline and looks for free time. Whoever needs the most time relative to the deadline gets a slot first. Each task goes to the earliest day with a good hour, and on that day to the best one.
An exam is several appointments
If you mark a task as an exam, Fokuno plans differently. The studying is split into units of 25 to 45 minutes and spread evenly over the days between today and the day before. The last unit is always the day before. If you miss a study day, Fokuno looks for another place before the exam for that unit.
There is a reason. A large review of ten study techniques rates only two as highly useful: distributed practice and testing yourself (Dunlosky et al., 2013). Rereading and highlighting did poorly. Fokuno takes care of the spreading, the testing is up to you. A block that wants everything at once on the evening before the exam is not a good idea.
Habits that stick
Reading three times a week, vocabulary every morning: habits get their fixed moment in the day. Fixed means: exactly at the time. Flexible means: for example three times a week for 30 minutes, spread evenly over the week and as far as possible at the same time of day. If you miss one, it lapses. No pile of debt builds up that clogs next week.
The evening is yours
At the end of the day you take two minutes: what went well, what slowed you down, what you start with tomorrow. After that the day is closed, and tomorrow your first step is already there. When you are free is decided by your time windows: days without a window and rest days stay empty.
The exact rules are on How Fokuno plans. What happens when the block begins is explained in Focus block and ritual.
Try it in your week.
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