Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity(mcwhittemore.com) |
Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity(mcwhittemore.com) |
Perception/„feeling“ vs physical reality. The gap is huge.
Trivial example, I was convinced that the „time toll“ i have to pay around training was very high. Like I was spending an hour or more just to change into sportswear, shower afterwards, and switch back. This perceived deadweight loss always presented an additional psychological hurdle to get off my ass and train. Now that I know that it‘s much less than I thought, it‘s gone.
Similar for cooking.
Like I said, havent done the full analysis yet but I can already highly recommend this practice of recording time at least for a while.
Late edit: Especially offline time tracking.
They have phone apps for both iOS and Android which work offline. Their iOS app has a "companion" on the Watch too, so you can quickly switch activities on your wrist. I think without this I wouldnt have the patience to even track bathroom time (another thing that I vastly overestimated before I saw the numbers).
I´m still hovering between writing my own tracking system, for more control, and the convenience of a pre-made system. I would most miss the watch app, I think, as I have no idea how to make that.
Possible compromise would be to use this app but automate the data export and analysis in my own custom environment.
But yea, long story short, Atracker, and offline works well.
Although did not know what to do with the data. I just saw my chess addiction subsiding. Maybe it was a side effect of seeing it at 60 hours a week.
Now it’s at 0 hours.
Experiencing self vs Remembering self.
After Daniel Kanheman gave a ted talk on this, I deliberately try to prioritise my experiencing self.
I wrote my own RSS reader. It is self hosted, so tracking is also done on phone.
I gather pages I visit through my reader, browse history, times a page was visited.
It is my window to the internet.
Also: on your main page, in the last section, the second line of the paragraph has a typo: "...Currently I'm work at..." -- I'm not trying to be annoying but thought you'd want to know (:
A little bit of SQL and some shell script would get the statistics.
grind , when and how you want
grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball
pay attention to your periferal vision, it's telling you stuff, same with first thoughts in the morning, they are useualy actionable but always do the self care stuff first schedules are great, if you have a lot of good things that you must maintain, but will eat you if you are trying to build from scratch or...if you are the anvil,bear if you are the hammer,strike
As a developer, the balance between using a readymade solution or implementing is always a bit tipped on the DIY side.
I should add it has a special "follow" pseudo-account which you can match to general use apps like windows explorer which will assign that time to the most recent assigned client account.