Analyzing the time spent on useless stuff can give you quite a productivity boost. Some time ago I did this by reading wmii's /event file. It has helped me ditch some stupid habits.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Niklas Koponen<niklas.kopo...@iki.fi> wrote: > Thinking is added on top of the time spent on the keyboard with the > factor of 1.3. The important information I get is how much time I've > spent by the keyboard and what files I have been editing, what sites > I've been surfing and how long the day has been from the first > interaction to the last. > > It didn't matter that much when I was working as an employee in a big > company because it was quite easy to fill in the same amount of hours > every day, nobody actually cared what you did during the day. > > At the moment I work as an entrepreneur and have a few customers. When > I send the bills at the end of the month it is easier to bill them the > right amount when I can grep some information on how much I've been > working on something and on what exactly. > > I know it would be easier just to write the hours down at the end of > each day, but for me it seems to be an impossible habit. On top of > that lately I've been working a lot from home, so I might have longer > breaks when the children come home from school and so on. I guess I'll > add some information to the statusbar telling me how many euros I have > earned so far and how much is still missing from the monthly estimate > ;-) > > The end of this month will show if the tracking was worth it. > > The xdotool worked as expected, thanks! > > -Niklas > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/9/1 Sebastian Stark <seb-...@biskalar.de>: >>> >>> On 01.09.2009, at 11:01, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >>> >>>> But how do you track the time of thinking? >>> >>> In reality nobody pays you for thinking :) >> >> I'd say working as a software developer means: you "think" at least >> 90% of your work time, when comparing it with the physical part of the >> work like pressing keys or moving the mouse. The "think" portion >> includes "reading specs/docs", "experimenting", etc of course. >> >> Kind regards, >> Anselm >> >> > >
