I track my time using RescueTime. The value to me is improving my calibration with respect to how well I feel I’m working, as compared to my actual RescueTime hours. Sometimes I think “Wow, I really worked a lot today” when in fact I didn’t get many hours in, and I’d rather have my intuition match the metrics. I don’t have a special justification/goal beyond that but I’m hoping something useful pops out.
I suspect that this is an instance of low cost, low median outcomes, but with high upside—it’s unlikely you’ll find something that makes a difference, but the cost isn’t very high, and there’s always a chance that, without putting numbers on it, you are missing some productivity intervention which would make a big difference to you. For example, perhaps you think poorly when you’re sleep deprived, but you don’t know it, but tracking productivity would let you know that’s happening.
At the NY Quantified Self meetup a few weeks ago, somebody reported tracking her post-concussion symptoms and discovered that, in fact, she wasn’t suffering from a concussion at all—it was a very different condition which required separate treatment.
Ah, I see. That clarifies things significantly. It also further indicates my erratic context switching is non-ordinary and requires special needs on this front.
I track my time using RescueTime. The value to me is improving my calibration with respect to how well I feel I’m working, as compared to my actual RescueTime hours. Sometimes I think “Wow, I really worked a lot today” when in fact I didn’t get many hours in, and I’d rather have my intuition match the metrics. I don’t have a special justification/goal beyond that but I’m hoping something useful pops out.
I suspect that this is an instance of low cost, low median outcomes, but with high upside—it’s unlikely you’ll find something that makes a difference, but the cost isn’t very high, and there’s always a chance that, without putting numbers on it, you are missing some productivity intervention which would make a big difference to you. For example, perhaps you think poorly when you’re sleep deprived, but you don’t know it, but tracking productivity would let you know that’s happening.
At the NY Quantified Self meetup a few weeks ago, somebody reported tracking her post-concussion symptoms and discovered that, in fact, she wasn’t suffering from a concussion at all—it was a very different condition which required separate treatment.
Ah, I see. That clarifies things significantly. It also further indicates my erratic context switching is non-ordinary and requires special needs on this front.