2005-07-21
Time Measurement
On our path to enlightenment in productivity, a reasonable time management is key.
Two of the essential skills in time management is (1) being able to make educated guesses on how much time various tasks might take (boy you can be wrong here) and (2) keeping an overall track on how you actually did spend your time during the day (grrrl you can be wrong here, too).
Active Timer and ClockWork are two free tools which jump in to help - at least for measuring how you spend your time at your computer:
Active Timer is a
ClockWork is a webbased application, which
Combined, they give you a pretty fine grained status report of your current behaviour. Have them running in the background for a day or two, you might be surprised.
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Two of the essential skills in time management is (1) being able to make educated guesses on how much time various tasks might take (boy you can be wrong here) and (2) keeping an overall track on how you actually did spend your time during the day (grrrl you can be wrong here, too).
Active Timer and ClockWork are two free tools which jump in to help - at least for measuring how you spend your time at your computer:
Active Timer is a
small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application.
ClockWork is a webbased application, which
allows you the flexibility to start, pause and resume an unlimited amount of task timers making it easy to switch between tasks without delay.
Combined, they give you a pretty fine grained status report of your current behaviour. Have them running in the background for a day or two, you might be surprised.
[webapps] [osx] [productivity] [timemanagement] - trackback
