GMD Tutorial – Creating A Time Chart Representing Your Productive Week
This video shows you how to use time charts in Achieve Planner.
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Showing a Time Chart in the background, behind active appointments in the Weekly Schedule, can help remind you that you intended to pursue a particular activity at a specific time. If you prefer, you can also display the weekly schedule without a Time Chart.
To create a time chart called Ideal Week follow these steps:
- Select the Go->Weekly Schedule command (or click the Weekly Schedule tab).
- Click the New Time Chart button on the time chart bar.
- In the General tab of the Time Chart Information form, enter the name Ideal Week.
- Click the Time Charts Areas tab, and select the Work result area from the result area dropdown in the gray bar.
- Select the time from 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM on Monday on the calendar (using the mouse or keyboard).
- Select the Actions->New Time Chart Area command to add that time slot (Ctrl+N.) This will create a new time chart area associated with the Work result area.
- Click on the time chart area with the left mouse button to put it in edit mode, and enter H as the name to represent a 2-hour “High Energy” work area.
- Hold down the Ctrl key and drag & drop the time area to Tuesday at 7:30 AM. This will create a copy of the time chart area at the drop location (keep the Ctrl key pressed as you drop the area).
- Repeat the process to create another copy of this time chart area every day at 7:30 AM.
You’ll often want to create repeated instances of the same time chart area in your time chart. You can do this using a drag copy operation:
Keep adding time chart areas as needed until you complete your time chart. You don’t have to associate a Time Chart Area with a Result Area, you can select None from the dropdown and double click the time chart area to edit the label (color) and name of the area.
Click the Save and Close button when you are done.
Note: To show this time chart in the background of your Weekly Schedule, select the Ideal Week time chart from the Time Chart dropdown on the bar.
