Having spent the last few months without a job, I have been setting up my own schedule and spending the days, more or less, as I pleased. On days when I would have nothing better to do, I spend time getting annoyed at the fact that I don’t have a set daily schedule. At this point I sit down and jot down a rough, hourly allotment of tasks to be followed over the next few days. It would almost always be on the following lines:

• 9am: Wake up
• 9:30am: Breakfast
• 10am-1pm: Computer time
• 1pm: Lunch time
• 2pm-3pm: Doodling time

… and so on

Following this would make me feel a bit at ease, but the luxury of leisure would eventually make me lose track after a few days. Eventually, I sat down and came up with a solution. I decided it was a lost effort to try and change the no-schedule daily life. So, I decided to change the clock.

The idea was to go through the day in a more leisurely manner, but still not feeling lost. (you might even want to read that as—trying to come up with a clock that would serve as the best excuse of losing track of time itself)

The Nokanta Clock (“kanta” in Hindi means “clock needle” and in Punjabi means “hour”) at a glance is meant to tell you how much of the day has passed. Giving you ratios of the day passed vs day left, instead of the hourly time. Of course, rather than making me follow a regimental schedule, this clock would allow me to go on through the day without having to worry about the lack of a schedule.

As an end note, it’s evident that this would not work in a time-based-deadline work environment, but it’s one of those things that I would really like to have on my wall at the office.