[ripply]

The example calendar they show makes me anxious and realize that even though I run my life from a calendar, I don’t want to micromanage my time to that extent. Even if I became incredibly productive through use of the product, I never want that kind of life.

[jddj]

My partner does this, it's completely full every week including scheduled leisure.

I'm lucky if even all of my meetings are in mine.

[dijit]

there's a threshold you reach where it becomes necessary to externalise parts of your brain.

Sounds really dumb but the way your mind works (or at least mine does) is that "meetings" are heavy and contextual.

Similar to how you can't read a single byte of memory, trying to think of when a meeting starts will cause me to "load" a large amount of information about the meeting.

Fine to do this for a handful of meetings but when you have 5+ per day, it becomes difficult to do anything else.

Calendars suddenly become really convenient, it's very quick to make an entry and then "there is time", "I wont forget about it" and "everything has its time, or it will conflict and it will be immediately visible".

Unironically I book focus time and time to read books too.

But this is since I became CTO, and I have partially diagnosed ADHD (unmedicated) so I've been using structure to keep me sane.