It's funny how often the cheap thing wins just because it's simple enough that you actually use it. My kitchen is full of fancy gadgets I touched twice and a $3 knife that does everything.

The thing about time blocking is that it's not really about the schedule itself, it's about the fact that it forces you to guess how long stuff takes. A 3 hour livestream makes it sound like some magic fix but nobody talks about the part where your day falls apart at 9am and everything slides. That's not you failing, that's just how long tasks actually take versus how long we think they take. Most people plan for the best case and then act shocked when real life shows up. The tracking part you did is actually the useful bit, watching where the time really goes, not the blocking part. Maybe try blocking just your top two things instead of the whole day next time, way less room to get wrecked.