I received a comment about the vertical orange bubble columns, which I use to visually split the day into a morning, afternoon, and evening. The comment was that the reader’s day didn’t align with these periods for lunch regularly, and therefore implied a kind of structure. I didn’t want to add vertical alternating background columns because this seems very busy (see ETT2 Wide Color to see what I’m talking about).

So I made two new alternatives:

Revision 3 removes the orange bubbles and replaces the vertical dot lines around 12 and 6 with solid ones to help provide some structure.

Revision 3A adds explicit times to the form, which looks cool. The back side of the form still uses fill-in bubbles for the time, since people might want to use them to extend either the early morning or late evening.

You can download these revisions on the main ETT 2013 post if you’d like to try them out.

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Reader Nancy solved a problem with the hour columns in the revised for 2013 Emergent Task Timer. The hours are now written in directly above each column, instead of over the hour boundaries; the image above shows the difference. It’s subtle, but I think it makes it a lot easier to make the connection between quarter-hours and the time. Thanks Nancy!

Here’s a quick link to the download on the original post if you’d like to check it out.

I also got a preliminary quote from my commercial printer, and I think I’ll take a chance and print 500 75-sheet pads for sale on Amazon. Once I’m happy with the wording and sure that the design is good, I’ll send it to press and see what happens! If you have any feedback or suggestions, now’s a good time to chime in! :-)