Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Time Tracking is Good for You

By: Track And Monitor Your Time Use With BubbleTimer | Smartlife

Track And Monitor Your Time Use With BubbleTimer | Smartlife — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:34:12 +0000

[...] in which you might be wasting, under-utilizing, or over-allocating your time. (Check out “5 Reasons Why Time Tracking is Good for You” for some more potential benefits.) Real-time feedback on how well you’re achieving [...]

By: Life Optimizer - Live your life to the max

Life Optimizer - Live your life to the max — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:41:53 +0000

[...] I’ve been using time tracking for some time now. Besides the benefits I wrote before, I can also see the patterns of my time usage. From these patterns there are some insights I get on how to better use my time. I hope they can also be useful for you. Here they are: [...]

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:32:02 +0000

@Alan:
Sometimes it’s amazing too see how much time we have wasted. Yes, there is no excuse once we can track it.

@Pamela:
Interesting view. I agree, we need to have a sense of responsibility to even start tracking our time. Time tracking can then enforce it even more, which makes it a virtuous cycle.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:31:22 +0000

Being an adult could mean responsibility. And as #4 suggests, time tracking should give us a sense of responsibility. I think it’s the other way around. We need to be responsible inorder to keep track of our time. How can we manage our time if we are not even responsible enough to do it?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:14:39 +0000

I believe that time tracking is a good way of knowing how you spend your time. There wouldn’t be any excuse about where your spare time went if you can track it. Like what you said, you’ll be able to budget your time like money.

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:36:27 +0000

What a surprise that the developer of Rachota himself comes here :). Rachota is a great tool, Jiri. Thanks a lot for taking the effort to develop such a useful tool! I’m just one of many who have used it to increase our quality of time. I believe many more people will.

Keep up the good work, and again, many thanks!

By: Jiri Kovalsky

Jiri Kovalsky — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:19:01 +0000

Hello Donald, I am developer of timetracker and want to thank you very much for your great blog entry. If you are still using Rachota, I suggest you download yesterday's build #070320 where I fixed two bugs #1684385 and #1678056. As for the motivation for time tracking I especially agree with reasons 4 and 5. I have been using Rachota since 2003 and it's very useful to for example look back and compare how much time I spent on reading e-mails 2 years ago. Finally, if you encounter some problem or come up with an idea for improvement, don't hesitate and report an issue or send us a message! Thanks for your valuable time! -Jirka