Just because I took the nerdy route doesn't mean it's a better way for everyone. You can demo it for two weeks, and there's a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you're interested in tracking your time and want something that looks nicer and works more easily than my setup, I would suggest trying out TimeSink. I've even tried apps specifically for time tracking, such as the excellent TimeSink.
I tried making it less intrusive (a Growl notification prompting me to make a note in Day One) but that was still a distraction, and I still didn't do it most of the time.
I've tried Day One, I even wrote a script that automatically prompted me to write down what I was doing every 15 minutes. I've tried keeping a piece of paper at my desk that I would use to write down everything I did. I've tried lots of different ways of keeping track of my time before this. Saying that I worked on a given project is one thing, but being able to see that I spent 20 minutes on this project and 2 hours on some other diversion is much more useful. I can't cross them off as 'completed' and I can't remember what I needed to go back to later.Īnother problem is remembering not only what I did, but how much time I spent on each. I'll start working on one thing, and then remember something else, then someone else asks for something, and in the midst of that something else comes up, and before you know it, the day is gone, and I've spent the day working on things that might have been important (or might not) but never made it to my "to do" list. I find myself going from task to task sometimes without taking as much time as I should to leave myself enough breadcrumbs to get back. The big problem is distractions, either internal or external.
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