Hour Blocks
Focus on today’s tasks and forget what’s ahead
$0.99 From James Saeed, jtsaeed.com Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch Needs iOS 11.0 or later
Hour Blocks is a time– planning and scheduling app that aims to stand out In a crowded market by helping you focus on what’s right in front of you.
It hooks into your Calendar, allowing you to choose which calendars you use with it. So far, so ordinary. However, Hour Blocks only displays the next 48 hours’ worth of activity, broken down by hour in large blocks (hour blocks, geddit?). Adding an appointment or task is as easy as tapping “ADD” on the hour you want to add it. If you want to spread an activity across multiple hours, you’ll have to add it individually to each hour block, you
can’t just set a start and finish time. And tasks imported via Calendars that take place across multiple hours are displayed in each hour they’re scheduled for. It’s an approach that makes complete sense in the context of the app.
We particularly liked the way Hour Blocks interprets the text in your task and displays an appropriate icon alongside it, such as a knife and fork next to a lunch appointment. But we weren’t so keen on it putting everything in title case, no matter how we typed it.
How much you get from Hour Blocks will depend on how meticulous you are about scheduling. If you go days without appointments or tasks, all you’ll see is a screen full of empty blocks. If, on the other hand, you like to list every activity, it may well help you focus on the present.
the bottoM liNe. If you like the idea of seeing every hour of your life planned out, then Hour Blocks is for you.