![]() When you keep track of your time and see the time tick, you subconsciously focus on the task you are tracking.When you track your time per task, there are number of benefits: Clockify’s Dashboard from last week of mine (Week 16) with sensitive data obfuscated. With one downside: You cannot really track time with it (and to be honest you shouldn’t, a to-do list and time tracking are two completely different things – that being said they work well hand-in-hand though). Even the thoughts of doing something I’m not yet able to do. It works very well as long as I list everything. My way of doing things is to list every little thing and detail to separate task or sub-task so that I don’t need to keep everything inside my head. They might be the personal goals for today, “get this and that done for that project and you can be happy with yourself” -type of things. These are the tiny bits of information that you need to have for yourself. This combination of apps works like a clockwork.īut what about personal productivity? You can’t really list your own tasks like “Check email at the end of the day” or “Make sure that function works” in these big collaborative tools because customer might see it and it is not for the eyes of your co-worker buddies either. We also have Harvest use Clockify for keeping track the hours spent in a project to keep up with budgets. ![]() Then we have Favro for collaborating in project with the staff and customer. That’s the place where you get answer to a question “what’s the overall status of this project?”. On top of our own tools for visual designers ( Figma) and for developers ( Visual Studio Code, among others like GitHub) we use Trello as “mothership” where we have every project in single board linked to their fragmented pieces of information. We know our work so we don’t make a big fuss about it, how much or when. The cardinal rule is to know your own hours. For developers it’s mostly automatic via GitHub insights, WakaTime etc. But we do not need to have them all under the same app. We do need some indication of progress and place to collaborate, delegate and list tasks. ![]() ![]() My approach with life and my company is flexibility. What about your personal tasks? What about estimating and mindmapping? Everything needs an app. There are existing tools that try to combine all of these like Basecamp and Monday for instance but I’m not a big fan of these monstrous apps that try to do everything. In our company we have separate tools for projects, sales, budgets and our daily working life consist of different apps with different purposes. After the rise of workflow methods like Srum, Lean and the like “simply todo list” was just not enough. In the past I coded my own but when Todoist was born in 2007 I have more or less used and praised it every since. The importance of tracking time in your personal productive workflow ![]()
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