Comments on: Redeeming Your Time http://www.productivity501.com/redeeming-your-time/2873/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: andrey http://www.productivity501.com/redeeming-your-time/2873/comment-page-1/#comment-107368 andrey Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:08:49 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=2873#comment-107368 I'd like to share with everybody the instrument I used as the productivity tool. Life-log.com is an online service based on a very comfortable and productive approach which I really appreciate.What I really hated in similar tools was that it took so much time and efforts to track different things and daily activities. And you then spend a lot of time trying to understand what I did in the past and how much time it took. And then you still do not have clear picture. In a theory I like DARPA approach to life logging (sure, I'd like to have all the information confidential and clar to me only), i.e. total trackintg of anything we do. But there is no readily available tools to track everything (and more important - get a real value out of those data to increase productivity, or make my life more conscious or simply become happier). So, when I looked into Life-log.com approach I told myself - ha, that's what I like. Now, my personal comments on this tool advantages (sure, it is my opinion only, but I know that there are probably another 10% of all people who's the same way of thinking): 1. It take some time to think of things you'd like to track, it's priority scale, desired timing and cost/value per minute or unit. It can be activities in the office, it can be off-the-job activities or physical conditions of your body, or grass height on your lawn, whatever you feel is interesting for you to see changing in time. Once you decide - you create so called projects (any number of them) and put whatever you decided to track into those projects. 2. Then all the efforts for tracking things are simply clicking on the buttons named after things you decided to track (and sometimes putting in figures or comments, but very rarely). The system is based on chess clock principles, i.e. one activity at a time and start of activity means stop for the previous one, so you don't need to think of too many things to track - just of one thing you are doing RIGHT NOW. 3. What is important to me is that there is an opportunity to track results in different areas. It is a fun to see that life is like a wave (and there is a real feeling of life wave frequency when you have enough data). All the above is good, and in some time - couple of weeks, maybe month, I clearly understand where my time is spent. But what is the most interesting, that I started to feel how time is flowing, started to feel that I need a real target to spend my time to do important things in my life, with priority #1 at the best. I started to think about what my life is - my job, or my home, or something in future or.... Extremely unusual feeling. Moreover, I also started to track different things - my exercises, blood presssure, weather, mood, productivity, how I sleep, how easily money goes in and out, how I talk to people etc. And I have a feeling that now I can predict the best time for each activity with quite high probability. Maybe it was a bit emotional or boring, but anybody can go and check it back. Life-log.com (although a lot to do, say add mobile phones or i-Phone to the list of supported tools) I’d like to share with everybody the instrument I used as the productivity tool. Life-log.com is an online service based on a very comfortable and productive approach which I really appreciate.What I really hated in similar tools was that it took so much time and efforts to track different things and daily activities. And you then spend a lot of time trying to understand what I did in the past and how much time it took. And then you still do not have clear picture.
In a theory I like DARPA approach to life logging (sure, I’d like to have all the information confidential and clar to me only), i.e. total trackintg of anything we do. But there is no readily available tools to track everything (and more important – get a real value out of those data to increase productivity, or make my life more conscious or simply become happier). So, when I looked into Life-log.com approach I told myself – ha, that’s what I like. Now, my personal comments on this tool advantages (sure, it is my opinion only, but I know that there are probably another 10% of all people who’s the same way of thinking):
1. It take some time to think of things you’d like to track, it’s priority scale, desired timing and cost/value per minute or unit. It can be activities in the office, it can be off-the-job activities or physical conditions of your body, or grass height on your lawn, whatever you feel is interesting for you to see changing in time. Once you decide – you create so called projects (any number of them) and put whatever you decided to track into those projects.
2. Then all the efforts for tracking things are simply clicking on the buttons named after things you decided to track (and sometimes putting in figures or comments, but very rarely). The system is based on chess clock principles, i.e. one activity at a time and start of activity means stop for the previous one, so you don’t need to think of too many things to track – just of one thing you are doing RIGHT NOW.
3. What is important to me is that there is an opportunity to track results in different areas. It is a fun to see that life is like a wave (and there is a real feeling of life wave frequency when you have enough data).

All the above is good, and in some time – couple of weeks, maybe month, I clearly understand where my time is spent. But what is the most interesting, that I started to feel how time is flowing, started to feel that I need a real target to spend my time to do important things in my life, with priority #1 at the best. I started to think about what my life is – my job, or my home, or something in future or…. Extremely unusual feeling.
Moreover, I also started to track different things – my exercises, blood presssure, weather, mood, productivity, how I sleep, how easily money goes in and out, how I talk to people etc. And I have a feeling that now I can predict the best time for each activity with quite high probability.

Maybe it was a bit emotional or boring, but anybody can go and check it back. Life-log.com (although a lot to do, say add mobile phones or i-Phone to the list of supported tools)

]]> By: john http://www.productivity501.com/redeeming-your-time/2873/comment-page-1/#comment-106546 john Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:53:45 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=2873#comment-106546 These are all great time tracking tools. There are also some web-based time tracking tools worth considering as well, such as <a href="http://www.myintervals.com" title="Intervals time tracking software" rel="nofollow">Intervals</a>, which includes additional features such as task and project management. Intervals helps you analyze where your time is going, just like the apps in this list, but in a web-based environment. These are all great time tracking tools. There are also some web-based time tracking tools worth considering as well, such as Intervals, which includes additional features such as task and project management. Intervals helps you analyze where your time is going, just like the apps in this list, but in a web-based environment.

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