Time Management
If you’re like many who are now wondering where their time goes in a day, a week and even a month, then you know how hard it can be to keep track of the many tasks and projects and other little things you do that suck up your time. You use calendars and lists to help schedule your time in hopes of maximizing each day and making sure you accomplish tasks to achieve goals. Some days you go right through the list, other days it seems like there just isn’t enough time. I spend most of my day online, whether it be designing a site, working on a blog, reading other blogs and news sites …I am online 80% of my day. I can say that I have wondered off into some tangent in my browsing adventures. What I have been looking at are various ways of keeping track of time I spend on my computer in hoes of being more efficient. Rescuetime.com is free web based time management software and it is here to help you and me.
What does it do? Rescue Time’s software collects data on the different applications you use, sites you visit such as the ip address and time spent on application. A snap shot from the day doesn’t typically prove to be very useful. The big deal is the tracking over time. You can log into your free account from any computer and see charts and graphs displaying where your time is being spent. To get started, you download a tiny application that runs in the background to collect data that is transmitted to Rescue Time. What this does is give you a real picture of where you are spending your time. Once you start to see patterns you can set goals to help recapture some of the time that had otherwise been lost. By the way, their software is supported on Windows and Mac machines.
Bloggintown on Tue, 5th Aug 2008 9:02 pm
I read your post this morning and thought it sounded like a really cool application.
I installed it and loved it at first. I thought it was great how it knew all the programs you were using and calculated how much time you spent doing what.
But almost immediately my laptop started running slow. Firefox wouldn’t open up properly and my feedreeder would take forever to open up a post.
So, I reluctantly uninstalled it and now I’m back to normal.
Its too bad because this could have been a really useful tool. Instead, the tool F’d me.
phoFuki on Wed, 6th Aug 2008 10:45 am
Very odd, I haven’t heard of any system slowdown issues with the app. If you give another try, you might want to change the logging and polling setting to longer intervals. Either that or something else is conflicting with it.