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FAQ - quick answers to common questions
Community - ask, answer, and compare notes with other members, signed in with your MakeTimeFlow account
Updates describes the latest updates to the platform.
Keyboard Shortcuts - navigate like a pro
Getting Started
In these videos, Narath will walk you through using the platform:
- Getting Started 2026 — the 12-minute focus-mode tour - start here! Focus mode, time blocking, flow mode, the buckets, and the rituals. (Tip: it’s also offered inside the app, where it remembers where you leave off.)
- How I Begin My Week Well
- Mastering Task Management with MakeTimeFlow
- How I WRAP Up My Week (and prepare for a great one)
If you are curious about the AI assistants in the platfom (and you should - I get a lot of value out of them), then checkout Flow AI and How I Use It.
Know Yourself - Values, Strengths and Relationships
Know Yourself - understand what drives you, what you’re great at, and who matters most. These foundations make everything else in MakeTimeFlow deeply personal — from AI coaching to goal setting to daily decisions.
Goals - Aligning your time and attention with your Meaning and Purpose
Getting Started with Goals - Start here! Learn how Flourishing Map, Success Stories, KPIs, and Habits all work together to help you level up
Goals - our complete guide to Goals - how to think about them, how to set them in the system, and what evidence there is for highly effective goal setting
Flourishing Map - explore the 6 key drivers of life satisfaction and use them as the foundation for meaningful goal setting
Review Rhythm - establish sustainable daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly review practices to stay on track
Experiments, Smart Bets, Habits and KPIs
Task Trust System
Task Trust System - build a task management system you can truly trust, with buckets, time-awareness, and smart organization
Let It Flow - capture what’s notable; tasks, projects, folders, and info live in one tree, recognized rather than decided
Tasks, Projects, Folders, and Info - how the four types work day to day, and answers to “where did it go?”
Closing the Loop - From Done to Delivered
Tag Buckets - some work isn’t a when, it’s a kind; group #email and #calls into a card you can drop tasks into, calendar, and start
Email Into MakeTimeFlow - forward an email to tasks@maketimeflow.com and it becomes a task, with your plan for it in the subject line
Focus and Flow
Focus Mode - your daily command central for choosing what to work on and entering deep work
Estimating Time - balance what you need to get done with how long you think it might take you and become that person who gets it done on time!
Daily Highlight Task - choose the ONE thing that would make today feel successful
Design Your Time - calendars and timeblocking
X-Blocks - turn honest estimates into protected calendar time, so work gets done despite optimistic planning
Calm the Chaos - manage your Communication Tools
Email Into MakeTimeFlow - get the hard emails out of your inbox and into time you’ve actually chosen
Accessing The System
Desktop - download the desktop app here
Mobile App - download the ios app here. If you are an Android user, please let us know you’d be interested an Android version.