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Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

51 pointsby mcwhittemoreabout 2 months ago

11 comments

HSOabout 2 months ago
I‘ve been doing sth similar by tracking my time for the last 3 weeks and change. I havent done the full analysis yet but it‘s already clear that how I <i>think</i> I spend my time is <i>completely</i> different from how I actually spend it.<p>Perception&#x2F;„feeling“ vs physical reality. The gap is huge.<p>Trivial example, I was convinced that the „time toll“ i have to pay <i>around</i> 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 <i>know</i> that it‘s much less than I thought, it‘s gone.<p>Similar for cooking.<p>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.
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blitzarabout 2 months ago
That is a disturbing length of time to spend on LinkedIn.
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renegat0x0about 2 months ago
I have been gathering a lot of information about myself.<p>I wrote my own RSS reader. It is self hosted, so tracking is also done on phone.<p>I gather pages I visit through my reader, browse history, times a page was visited.<p>It is my window to the internet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Django-link-archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Django-link-archive</a>
eisoloabout 2 months ago
Really enjoyed going through your website. And web graph browser is super cool, just wish there was like an &quot;expand all nodes&quot; or &quot;expand current level connections&quot; button.<p>Also: on your main page, in the last section, the second line of the paragraph has a typo: &quot;...Currently I&#x27;m work at...&quot; -- I&#x27;m not trying to be annoying but thought you&#x27;d want to know (:
fmajidabout 2 months ago
For Mac Users, Qbserve is a pretty good time tracking app that observes you as you use your computer (not just the browser, although it has plugins to identify the sites you browse), and is a good way to start getting a grip on time management, even if it can be a little overwhelming at first.
ninalanyonabout 2 months ago
You don&#x27;t need an extension for Firefox you can get the data from places.sqlite in your Firefox profile.<p>A little bit of SQL and some shell script would get the statistics.
tony-allanabout 2 months ago
An interesting (unrelated) reference in the article… <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcwhittemore.com&#x2F;web-graph-browser&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mcwhittemore.com&#x2F;web-graph-browser&#x2F;</a>
tjlahrabout 2 months ago
Nice post! I’ve found Early (fka Timeular) useful for this kind of tracking.
edgarvaldesabout 2 months ago
Nice analysis. I cant do something similar, because I use a myriad of devices. Since last week I have tried to simply spend less time on the phone. I want to gradually get to &lt;1 hr a week.
metalmanabout 2 months ago
meaningless<p>grind , when and how you want<p>grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball<p>pay attention to your periferal vision, it&#x27;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
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crawsomeabout 2 months ago
Replicating the author&#x27;s experience requires a $5&#x2F;mo subscription to a feed reader&#x2F;glorified bookmark manager...