How Am I Spending My Time?

At the start of the year, or close enough for this exercise, I installed an app called Time Sink by Many Tricks. I wanted to track which apps I was really using and for how long. For example, how much development time goes into Katalon Studio? How much time do I really spend writing in Scrivener? How much time do I spend parsing text in TextSoap? Now I have some answers, and they’re pretty interesting. Of course, most of my time is spent in Firefox. Next, I use DevonThink and DevonAgent the most. It should be noted that days means 24 hour days, not an 8 hour business day. So using Firefox for 22.6 days means 528+ hours of actual time. In some cases, the time is actually measured in time saved. For example, I’ve spend 15 hours in Keyboard Maestro, but I’ve saved myself 5 days worth of effort according to the Keyboard Maestro, About screen. I’m not going […]

Tracking your progress, or lack thereof with Time Sink

Here is a neat little tool I have added to my bag of tricks. I’ve been curious about how I spend my time. What exactly am I working on during the day? Is it really taking that long? Or am I really getting it done that quickly? Time Sink is an app that’s targeted toward tracking your time, or as the name implies, how you might be wasting your time. Are you spending too much time reading mail, answering Slack messages, messing around with Twitter or Facebook, or trying to adjust your calendar? If you’re feeling overwhelmed, or that you aren’t getting enough done in a day, Time Sink can break things down for you. On the flip side, you can also use it to track your progress. How many hours of training did you take on Udemy this month? How many hours of automation develop did you complete in Katalon? How much time did you spend testing that API? […]