Therapy would take away productive time :)
I did actually use my own custom built productivity tools to block websites[0], and I used ActivityWatch[1] to track my time.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmd...
I did actually use my own custom built productivity tools to block websites[0], and I used ActivityWatch[1] to track my time.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmd...
I'm not sure if that's a joke, or not. But if you sincerely mean it - I put it away for years and now I feel like an idiot for wasting a lot of my time fighting rather than actually addressing my issues. This would've been the most productive time investment I could've done a decade earlier.
That's great that therapy worked so well for you, but don't make it out to be a panacea for everyone.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788928/#:~:tex...
Which books do you recommend?
> In the morning session, I did yoga, went to the gym, started two blog posts, and did some work for my job.
If it's the 5th you mention, it's just not that important?
I mainly wanted to get a lot of side projects/hobbies done.
It's a cheap and simple solution to the problem of people spending half their work hours puttering around on Twitter etc.
What a horrible thing to do.
- It's business devices, so there should be no private stuff in any of the screenshots. - It's screenshots, so it's just a point-in-time. There's no way to determine how long a sequence was. For both sides. - The rule seems to be that it should just set boundaries. There's no proactive monitoring. They only seem to look at the screenshots if productivity does not raise.
Obviously, lower intervalls may be problematic. If there are maybe 15-30 screenshots a day, I don't see any issue (for me).
That's when we use it. Some people need to have discipline imposed from an external source, if they don't have it, they will fail.
If they turn their performance around they can ask to have it removed and we usually grant the ask. I don't have anyone senior on my team who has to use this system, because part of becoming senior is developing the discipline to not need this.
We give freedom to those who perform and explicit, direct, unambiguous corrective guidance to those who don't.
It's frankly a great system at the right time and place. I thought the OP's post was very interesting because being watched improves output for many people. Managers like having people in the office for this reason, too. But the OP's way of having himself watched was very expensive. You can do it for 15 bucks a month with a SaaS. The most interesting part is that performance usually improves even if no one is looking at the screenshot. This is an awful lot more relaxing than having someone hover over your shoulder all day, whether they're a manager or a person you hired.
Thanks for making the effort to judge us with zero context and six words though.
1 hr a week for most people. Give up 1 of your 100 unproductive hours instead lol.
Meaning, I am pretty sure, your effective productivity would have declined after the month, with assistants, or not. And that you got Covid, might be a clear sign of that.
Or based on the ones custom you described aforementioned, which features or tools do you wish you had on top of it?
Just curious, and I respect the setup thus far.
ActivityWatch is great for single device tracking, but I wish there was a tool for multi-device tracking and also away-from-device tracking (tracking gym, sleep, etc...) that integrated all of the data into one place and made it easily accessible. My use case is pretty niche though :/