Best time of day
The best time of day for admin and email.
Administrative covers routine tasks, email, organising and tidying up: inbox, expenses, scheduling, filing.
Routine work needs little peak capacity; placing it in low-energy hours protects the strong hours for demanding work.
By chronotype
Morning type
strongest 6am to 11pm6am10am2pm6pm10pm
Neither strongly
strongest 6am to 11pm6am10am2pm6pm10pm
Evening type
strongest 6am to 11pm6am10am2pm6pm10pm
Model output for a neutral energy level and eight hours of sleep, from the baseline and chronotype tables on Sources. Timing effects are real but not universal; a person's own check-ins move these curves.
How to use this
- Find your chronotype above. If you wake easily before 7 and fade by 9pm, read the morning row; if the reverse, the evening row.
- Put your hardest admin and email in the strongest range and protect it: no meetings, no inbox.
- Put routine work in the weak hours. It does not need your peak.
- Keep the same slot for a week, then judge by output, not by how it felt on day one.
Or let the schedule do it.
My Calendy maps your own curve from four answers, breaks a project into tasks, and places each one at the hour your brain is best at that kind of work, around your calendar. When a block slips, it re-plans. 7 days free, no card.