So, I’ve been experimenting with time tracking over the past few months, and I’ve decided that all the online ones are terrible and overly complicated. My solution was to make a template, print it out, and run some analysis on it myself later.
I’ve made a 7 x 36 grid for Days x Half Hour time blocks, where I fill up each of the blocks from 5h30 to 22h30 divided into half hour intervals with a single word describing the activity I did. Then, I add a coloured dot beside it to indicate if it’s productive (green) or nonproductive (red). At the end, I total up everything, and put the day’s productive : nonproductive time ratio at the bottom.
I feel like it’s really useful to see how I’ve spent my time lately, and it lets me collect some data about how I manage my time, and also how much time I waste. It’s an interesting metric for sure, and I’m going to write a python script sometime later to analyze my data, though I’ll have to come up with some approach for that.
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