Time Tracking is the practice of [[Capturing Logs]] of hope you use your time. It's the first thing I did that sent me down the whole Productivity / Quantified self path. There is a very direct line from a speaker in college to my [[PDW]]. Most methods involve bucketing your activities to some form for the purpose of analysis, e.g. the [[Commitment Inventory]]. # Methods The least strict version of this is the [[Captain’s Log]] method. It doesn’t require a grid-based capture. It does not expect you to bucket your activities up. From [[So Good They Can't Ignore You]], Call Newport talks about venture capitalist Mike Jackson's [[spreadsheet]]: ![[Pasted image 20240622223343.png]] The novel bit of this is the separation of the "Have to" from the _discretionary_ time use. **** ## Source - self - [[So Good They Can't Ignore You]] - [[Off the Clock]] ## Related