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Tracking every minute of my day.

Adarsh TS on August 04, 2021

I became more aware of where I was spending my time. It was like someone watching me from behind. I became my own boss. Here I will be sharing my e...
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Debuqer

The company I work for uses a software to track every single activity that we do. Tasks will be created and employees are forced to start/stop their own tasks. It always was a hardest thing to track my times at work but never thought about recording my own personal activities.
I think as much as you like the result you put effort into tracking times.
Thanks to you I want to try it once now.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Ugh. That's awful

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Bilaniuc Dragos

Congrats, @tsadarsh ! I'm so happy to hear that you've also tried it, and it works for you as well!
Keep up the good work, dude!

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Kishan B

If you are fan of CLI you can also use watson to track your time :-)

github.com/TailorDev/Watson

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Adarsh TS

This blog was an interesting read.

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Adarsh TS

Wow. This CLI is super cool. Thanks for sharing it.

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Kishan B

Also what about the when to do things in parallel..

Eg Doing opensource contribution while present in boring meetings?

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Adarsh TS

Well, you can only be doing one thing at any given time. If I was doing opensource contribution in a boring meeting, my Toggl entry would be "open source". This is because my primary focus is in open source contribution. It is just like I am sitting in a different room.

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Kishan B

What about phone calls? It is easy to not enable the timer before doing that

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Adarsh TS

Yeah, one may forget to enable the timer before picking up the call. But the entries in Toggl can always be edited, very much like the "edit" option in Watson.