Example of time-tracking

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

thanks for the link!

Greetings,
Joachim


Am Samstag, den 16.08.2014, 17:02 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:
> http://lightonphiri.org/blog/quantified-self-the-three-year-long-time-tracking-experiment
> 
> > Between June 2011 and June 2013 I diligently tracked the way that I used my 24-hour cycles. I initiated this painstaking task after going through a long spell of productivity draught; I was obsessed with how exactly I spent my ‘Work -> Eat -> Sleep’ cycles. To achieve this, I used Hamster Time Tracker [1]. I recently decided to dig into this wealth of information and have spent the last couple of days analyzing it. While the data I collected is not 100% accurate, visible patterns emerge.
> >
> > ...
> > - I discovered that I slept an average of 5.1 hours per day (see table below)
> > - Day-to-day tasks account for an average of 36.14%, implying that I had 63.86% of productivity time at my disposal
> > - I work more and often in the morning (segmenting results into day slots– dawn, wee hours, morning, mid-morning, afternoon, evening–yielded even more interesting results…)
> > ...
> > - I was able to figure out when I am most productive and was thus able to plan my waking life accordingly
> > - I knew where most productivity leaks were coming from (social networking sites for instance) and was able to cut down on those activities when I needed to reclaim time
> > - I was able to identify tasks that I could easily perform when I was in ‘Zombie’ mode (e.g. current affairs)
> > - Perhaps the most prized outcome was figuring out when I was most productive–I wrote more in the morning, I read more in the morning and did most of my coding late at night
> 
> He used Project Hamster http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/
> which is a manual self-tracking program:
> 
> > Whenever you change from doing one task to other, you change your current activity in Hamster. After a while you can see how many hours you have spent on what. Maybe print it out, or export to some suitable format, if time reporting is a request of your employee.
> 
> So capable of more semantics than arbtt, but also a lot less
> fine-grained and more work.
> 

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