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The following summary is an ideal timeline. Keep in mind that when developing a timeline we must factor in constraints such as communications, day night cycle, spacial constraints (crew working on top of one another), exercise constraints, crew preferences, miscellaneous constraints associated with specific activities (i.e. choreography between crew actions and ground commanding or run times for particular sample cycles). So the template below is just that, a template.The timeline Mary Lynne linked is actually the Form 24. This is the Russian's version of the crew timeline. See all F24's here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html This timeline is uplinked to the crew every day. We also uplink a timeline via .xml to software onboard. Example below. This provides some redundancy for the crew.Standard crew day:06:00 AM - Crew wake. Clean up, eat, read news and messages uplinked overnight.07:30 AM - Morning Daily Planning Conference (DPC). Astronauts and Cosmonauts sync up with Houston, Huntsville, Munich, Tskuba, and Moscow before executing their day.07:55 AM - Work prep, review procedures and gather stowage to support the day's activities.08:15 AM - Crew available work time. Science experiments, preventative and corrective maintenance, visiting vehicle preparations, stowage operations, environment sampling (acoustics, surfaces, water), public affairs events, misc medical tasks including daily 2.5 hrs of exercise.01:00 PM - Lunch02:00 PM - Crew available work time (see above).06:15 PM - Evening work prep, review procedures and timeline for next day.07:05 PM - Evening DPC. Discuss comments/questions about the day executed. Brief highlight for changes to tomorrow's plan (if required).07:30 PM - Dinner, relax, email, organize images for downlink, watch a movie, look at Earth!09:30 PM - Crew Sleep (8.5 hrs)There is a special treat coming for folks that are interested in the crew's activities. Not sure what I can or can't say so we'll just leave it at that. Stay tuned.

I make an Eisenhower matrix every morning and according to it I make a schedule. And before I go bed I reflect. And you can find some awesome templates to manage your daily tasks here: https://evernote.com/templates

Use a Schedule!I know this sounds rather rigid, but a schedule is the best way to control your time and make the most out of it.A lot of people have this idea in their head that a schedule will control their lives, when it should be a tool for them to use to improve it.If your schedule makes you feel miserable you are not doing it right!A schedule should make you go to bed with a smile of satisfaction on your face, not with a sigh of relief.It should excite you because you plan amazing things into your day, not stress you because you have so much to do.And it should challenge you, not overwhelm you.Sit down every evening and write out your daily schedule, hour by hour, and make sure you are excited by the way it looks before you commit to it. Challenged, but excited.And then, I also want you to realize that this is a template.If something goes wrong (which it will if you plan the day out in detail) then you go back into your schedule, cross things off, and change it.Your schedule should not define you. It is a tool! It does not own you!If you use this right you will get better and better at scheduling your time for the things important to you.You will learn more about yourself, be able to get more done in less time, and will feel far more satisfied at the end.But you have to get started with the schedule and stick with it.The first couple of weeks most of your schedule will fall apart.You should have red markings everywhere as you go back into it and change everything around multiple times a day.But you will get better, and as you get better, you’ll get more effective.You will waste less time, will do less things that make you feel bad or bored, and will use your time the way you want to.