Comments on: Think you work hard? Think again.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:07:46 +0000

Here’s one more time management tool that helps see how much time you spend working:

http://www.timemanagementrocks.com/

By: Asphodel

Asphodel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:35:26 +0000

I started using rescue time since a month ago and was shocked to see how much time I spent working. It’s also wound up motivating me with the Goals widget on it that allows you to monitor if you have spent enough time on it successfully. Just wrote a post on it for my two faithful readers

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By: Milton

Milton — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:51:59 +0000

Can you have different websites marked as different activities? For example, when I’m at my school’s library site or one of the many databases they send me to, odds are I’m on task (occasionally, I still manage to find an off-topic, but still cool article(s) to check out), but if I’m at doggdot.us or lifehacker or MarkMaunder.com or, well you get the idea, I’m not on task.

@Justin George – Yes, it is more important to get the work done, instead of just tracking time worked. For me, some nights I spend an hour on task, but the rest of the time is still productive (e.g. reading off-topic, but field relevant articles) and I don’t mind the off task time. However, a lot of nights (if it’s not obvious, I’m nocturnal) I realize it’s 6 or 7 in the morning and I haven’t done anything productive. Having some type of service that (a) tracked where I’m my least productive and (b) when I had spent a specified amount of time in an unproductive way it would prompt me to get back on task, would be useful. If at the prompt, I decide that my current activity is productive, even if it’s off task, I can chose to continue the off task activity, or choose to get back to work. Yes, timers can provide the same functionality, but if I’m actually being on task productive, I don’t want my concentration interrupted by an unnecessary alarm.

By: Jing

Jing — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:55:18 +0000

That’s interesting. I’m actually doing a thesis (once school starts) on how time tracking applications and being aware of how you spend your time can change your behavior.

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By: JBridge

JBridge — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:07:34 +0000

Don’t worry- that’s a LOT better than I do!

~Joel

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:23:11 +0000

You are a huge loser. Who cares? What you want to work on a factory floor where every second sorting widgets by hand is not wasted?

Don’t rock the boat. The news you get and time learning, writing don’t hurt your productivity. They help it. C’mon man really.

By: Michael Langford

Michael Langford — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:02:05 +0000

I’ve read from Joel Spolsky that you can only expect to get 5 real hours of work done in an 8 hour day.

When I’ve put more in the hours/day column of my schedules, they’ve often been wrong (for me and others).

I’ve found I inch up to 6 or even 6.5 per 8 at home, which is better, but still astounding to me.

–Michael

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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:12:14 +0000

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