A vertical grid where every minute has a purpose — or does not.
Use the Hioii Time Box grid to plan deep work in 30-minute blocks with drag-and-drop, calendar sync and focus tracking.
This page covers how to use time box in hioii in practice: what to do first, how to turn it into real blocks in your calendar, and how to keep the plan alive when the day changes. Everything below is how we use Hioii ourselves — capture in Brain Dump, choose three outcomes, and box them into 30-minute slots with buffers.
Time Box shows your day as 30-minute slots from morning to night. Calendar events appear locked; free slots are open canvas.
Each task you pull becomes a block. Resize by dragging the edge (15m to 2h). Need a longer focus session? Click-and-drag across multiple slots to merge them.
Click play on a block. Full-screen countdown timer takes over. No notifications, no other windows, just you and the task. Done? Mark complete with one tap.
Two-way sync means meetings show in Time Box and your focus blocks show in your calendar. Teammates see "Focus" on your shared calendar instead of "Free".
Start in Brain Dump and empty your head — tasks, ideas, worries — without sorting them. Then mark the three that define a successful day and drag them onto the Time Box grid, where each block is 30 minutes and every block carries a buffer. When something breaks (and it will), Auto-Organize re-plans the rest of the day instead of leaving you with a stale schedule about how to use time box in hioii.
Teams do the same thing in Squad: a shared backlog, delegation with clear owners, and availability that shows busy or blocked slots without exposing the private content of anyone's calendar. Managers see delivery speed and a traffic-light view of what is on track — measurement without surveillance.
Hioii is free to start on the Basic plan, which includes monthly AI credits. Paid plans add more credits, longer history retention, Take Off data export and team features such as seats, shared projects and agent access through MCP.
Long enough for meaningful work, short enough to commit. Most people overestimate focus capacity; 30 min is a realistic ceiling.
Yes. Resize any block from 15m to 2h. The grid still aligns to 30-min slots for clarity.
They stay in the backlog. End-of-day prompt lets you move them to tomorrow with one click.