What counts as an alternative ? Does Seah's Emergent Task Planning [0] count ? It involves choosing a couple of tasks for the day, blocking them out, but allow

What counts as an alternative ? Does Seah's Emergent Task Planning [0] count ? It involves choosing a couple of tasks for the day, blocking them out, but allowing and recording interruptions. [0] https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/ https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/ Does Allen's Getting Things Done count ? It involves sorting work at milestones (weekly, monthly), and doing each for some reasonable amount of time, chosen by the doer. Anything that takes five minutes or less, should be done immediately. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139432 Does the Montessori method of teaching [2] count ? It seems to involve the student learner engaging with a single chosen subject for several hours at a time. [2] https://montessorifortoday.com/what-is-the-montessori-teaching-method/ https://montessorifortoday.com/what-is-the-montessori-teachi... Do the dicta 'do something until you are bored', 'perservere until you are exhausted', and 'multitasking is okay' count ? I am of the impression that productivity strategies are just frameworks for thought. Each, with or without a formal Author's name attached, is just somewhere on the spectrum/surface of counting some work as more or less worthy of focus with heuristics for 'focus can last a some amount of time'.