Chronometer app. Time management in simple words

Very often, sitting down for a particular task at the computer, we are distracted by various unforeseen little things. Mail, social networks, games and so on. And the task, which does not take very long in the aggregate, is constantly postponed. And now the whole day passes, and you have not moved from the dead center. But did you do something? Where did all the time go? Here's about the calculation and timing of this time, as well as about its effective use. and we'll talk today.

The problem of controlling working time is an eternal problem for fans of time management. In classic office work, we work under the unsightly eye of a boss or director, who constantly demand some kind of reports and the results of the work done, and this pushes us to get the result.

A freelancer, blogger, or anyone who works from home at a computer has no such control. The artificial stimulus disappears. Everyone takes responsibility for the time spent at the computer. It is very difficult to concentrate alone, when no one urges you on and “kicks” you. Well, it's true, you must agree.

It seems that you have a clear plan, and you know what to do, but you sit down at the computer and start doing something incomprehensible. Communication in, viewing the attendance of your resource or unscheduled viewing of a training or movie - all this takes up our precious time. And then the whole day passes and you seem to be sitting at the computer, but the matter has not moved off the ground and there are no results. It's a shame, isn't it?

This is the postponement of the task for later or constant preparation for its implementation. You say, “Right now, now. I'll just check my mail or see who liked me on VKontakte. Now, I'll just watch this video on YouTube ”and so on. What needs to be done right now is stretched indefinitely in time. It seems that you understand this with your mind, but there is still no result.

Time counting and timing programs for effective use of time at the computer

To overcome this and begin to fulfill the tasks set for yourself, you need. How can this be done without the participation of outside forces? With the help of special programs that should help us with this. They will be able to increase the efficiency of their own work at the computer in a specific period of time.

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LazyCure is effective timing. We analyze the time spent

Another timekeeping program that allows us to evaluate our efficiency of being at the computer is a free program ... It allows you to record all actions with subsequent analysis of their effectiveness.

You run it on your computer and before starting the task you prescribe what you will do. Click Finish. The program starts counting the performed action. We finished, started the next business and again noted what they started doing. So throughout the day. The program shows the timing of the actions performed.

Then you can monitor. On what business how much time was spent. You will be surprised to see where the time actually goes. You went to have tea in the kitchen and found yourself sitting two hours later by the TV.

One thing is very important to do. You need to fully measure your day. See where all your time is going, who or what is its absorber. Try to lead with this information within a week. This will be a precise enough cut to understand your weaknesses in spending valuable time.

Everything is recorded every day in the so-called log and stored on the computer.

You can open the date file and compare your activity at one time or another.

The results obtained can be analyzed using the statistics included in the program. It can also show your effectiveness.

The program settings are pretty standard. The only interesting option is the ability to post to Twitter the end of an action.

These are not cunning helpers who can very effectively stimulate you to increase your own efficiency. These programs for counting and timing of time will help you use your active time at the computer more efficiently and help you focus on one specific task. I hope these tools will help you fight yourself. That's all. Do not forget to subscribe to the blog update, there is still a lot of interesting things ahead.

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Today the site is visited by Alexander Filippov, the author of the wonderful program "Mobile timing".

What is a time absorber?

Time absorber (or chronophage) - time that imperceptibly goes to incomprehensible matters Things that are not useful. In other words, a time waster is wasted days, months, and years. Chronophages accompany us at work, accompany us on vacation. In both cases, they spoil everything.

How to identify a time waster?

Sofa or bed... I like to lie on the couch and think about nothing. This is a real chronophage, because there is no usefulness. BUT, if I lie down after hard physical work, then this is already rest.

Classmates... Climbing into Odnoklassniki - finding a contact, making an appointment is a benefit. Watching pictures, commenting on friends is nonsense and a very big waste of time. By the way, here it is very easy to deceive yourself - to promise that you have come in for 5 minutes and forget. Set a limit for Odnoklassniki for a day, for example an hour - and fit into it.

Computer games... It is very difficult to find any benefit in this matter. An outspoken time waster. Replace play with reading a book (when boring). And if you do not have enough emotions - play paintball, go rollerblading.

Surfing the internet... A very dangerous and attractive thing. Because instead of 5 minutes you can stay there until the night. My recommendation is always set a goal for what information you want to find. And do not turn a single step!

Viewing mail... If you are subscribed to the mailing list, it is very difficult to get out of reading your mail. Limit the number of mailings, refuse one every month. It is best to set aside limited time per day to review your mail. If you didn't have time to read it, close the program anyway. Over time, you will only read the most important messages.

Time in traffic, transport... Sitting behind the wheel and getting nervous is forbidden - this is a chronophagus. There are many educational audiobooks out there now. Cork will become your university. Learn English.

Output. If the business does not bring benefits or good rest, it is a time absorber.

How to get rid of the time waster?

Let's call a time waster a bad habit.

It is impossible to give up the habit right away; it can be done gradually.

First, you need to get to know her - measure the time that she steals from us, or in other words - conduct the timing.

It is better to use a telephone for timekeeping - it is always at hand. We put a special program Mobile timing on the phone (it is suitable for all phones that support Java). You can download it on the developer's website www.forbant.com

Let's start the hunt for the Odnoklassniki chronophage, let's see how long it steals from us.

We create in the program two cases "Life" and "Classmates". We put a tick on the case "Life" and close the program.

Now, as soon as we go to Odnoklassniki, we need to make a mark in the timing. We open the Mobile Timekeeping program, it is simple - therefore it opens very quickly. We put a tick in the Odnoklassniki case and close the program. The timer will count the time spent on the time absorber, even in the off mode.

Believe me, by performing this simple action, you are already aware of where and how much time you plan to spend.

This is an important point. Sometimes, opening the program and seeing that Odnoklassniki has already stolen 4 hours from Life, you will not want to surf the Internet.

It is important to know how long a bad habit takes. If we can measure it, it will be easier for us to control it.

Every day, make a note of the time spent in the Mobile Timekeeping program. And after a while, if you really want to reduce the time waster, you will notice that the time per habit has begun to decrease.

Good luck in your fight against time wasters. Take some time for yourself!

You already know about what is useful and why you need to conduct timing. If not, please read the article. I hope she will convince you of the need to control your time in order to spend it only on the most important things in life.

- a great opportunity to spend time tracking... Do it in mobile phone simple and convenient. The program appeared not so long ago, but many have already benefited. You just need to download Mobile Timekeeping, install it on your phone, and you will know exactly what your precious time is spent on.

We will talk about the Mobile Timekeeping program and its advantages. Let's start in order.

Why Mobile Timekeeping?

Because the program is installed on your mobile phone, which is always at hand, wherever you are. The program is specially designed for mobile phones, and can be easily "placed" into any model of any manufacturer. Once you've downloaded and installed Mobile Timekeeping, you can add your to-do list to it. If you don't know how to compose - check out the compilation process. There you will also find examples of to-do lists. Everything is very simple!

Why mobile timing is convenient

As already mentioned - always at hand... This means that at any time you can find out how much time and what you are spending. You just need to open the program and mark the business you are doing - the report is gone! Even if closed, the Mobile Timekeeping program tirelessly counts the minutes and hours spent on the business you choose.

Another convenience is that the program saves time spent archive... You can view the history archive and compare costs on different days.

And the indisputable convenience of the program is the ability export data to Excel... You will see your time spent in familiar and easy-to-analyze tables. Make diagrams of your time spent - the time taken - and you will be surprised how much your expectations and ideas about what you spend time on are at odds with reality.

To-do list in Mobile Timer

Add or remove unnecessary item in to-do list you can at any time. You yourself come up with the names of your cases. To switch from one case to another, just check the box next to the desired item. The program will automatically stop "counting" the previous case and start counting the time in the newly selected one. The list can be adjusted and selected in the course of your life, your usual day.

In the free version of the program, you can add only three cases. In real life, of course, there are more of them. Therefore, it is more convenient to use the extended paid version, moreover, it is quite inexpensive. These costs are small compared to the ability to manage your time and spend it on the main things in life.

And now a small video about mobile timing.

Download the program Mobile timing can be found on the developer's website. Save your time! 🙂

Timing is a program for recording and analyzing personal time. The application allows you to conveniently record the amount of time spent and analyze how rationally the time was spent. Features: + support Apple Watch + display of events from the calendar in real time + custom reminders + export data to CSV + export data to Dropbox + backup / restore + report by categories for day / week / month / year and set interval + control income / expense for actions and categories + custom categories + custom colors for categories “I force myself to ask my secretary every nine months to keep track of my time for three weeks ... I promise myself and I promise her in writing (she insists) that I will not I'll fire it when it yields results. And yet, although I have been doing this for five or six years, every time I scream: "This cannot be, I know that I am wasting a lot of time, but it cannot be so much ..." see someone with different results of such accounting! " - Peter Drucker * CONTROL YOUR TIME TO BE PRODUCTIVE * We'd love to hear your wishes and suggestions - [email protected]

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Reviews

• Best for timing

  From Mikhailyuk Bogdan

  I have been using it for a long time. I also used it on Android, then the need for timekeeping disappeared. A year ago, the need arose again, and again I use this application. It is very convenient, there are minor roughnesses and wishes for functionality. But, unfortunately, it was not possible to contact the developer. Dear developer, if you are interested in listening to suggestions for functionality, please contact me.

• Freeze

  From Dmitry12356789

  After the update, the application began to freeze. Please fix

• Low battery

  From Pavel Makevich

  The application is excellent, very user-friendly. But it quickly drains the battery.

• According to the Lyubishchev system

  From This Strange Life

  The best there is. No unnecessary movement. All to the point. Buy paid. Advise

• User

  A good app to find out what you are doing all day. And how much he earned and how much he could earn;)

• Excellent

  Convenient, practical, not power-consuming. Unloading in a fairly convenient structure. The only removal of descriptions from the list is to add, although not critical.

• Vary Great !!!

  wonderful application. thanks! enjoyed free version year, I decided to buy a scarf! sorry from free you can not import everything to this paid

• Best Timesheet.

  Soup app. Quickly populates event when composing Timesheet. To Developers: 1. In the Activity List, reverse the order. the last records are corrected, and they have to be looked for by rewinding, or the button for selecting the order of records. 2. In the title write (Timesheet) that is what interests and is looking for. 3. Correct EXPORT to the computer so that it reads in Russian and produces a table with vertical and horizontal columns.

• Not exported correctly

  When exporting to Documents, the table is viewed only in Finder, and in Numbes and TextEdit, etc. opens row by row without columns. In EXELS it is not synchronized in Unicode at all and only in NeoOffice was able to select the correct table and text in the settings.

• Super

  Very handy thing

• Joy

  Like so much. Simple and straightforward.

• Calendars don't work

  I hate it when the promised functionality does not work

• Excellent program.

  In addition, it motivates not to waste time in vain.

• Feedback

  I did not find a feedback form with the developer, so I am writing here. The application is excellent (it seems to me that it is the best among analogues), but the "reviews" page began to glitch. When you press "spacing", a white bar appears at the bottom with no options. The application freezes and has to be restarted. Possibly related to the "upgrade" to iOS8. Please correct if possible.

• Great app!

  I have been looking for a timing app for a long time. The phone is Windows Phone, and the application that it has is super inconvenient: (I took out my iPad and installed the excellent Timekeeping application. Now timing has become more interesting, such a race with myself for my own performance. I like it!

• Author, fix the program.

  Upset with the purchase. I ask the author to complete the program and then I will correct the review. On android it is much better. 1. On the fourth iPhone, the record button is covered by 1/3 of the bottom panel. 2. It is not possible to set your own reminder interval. 3. It is not possible to set the night mode so that reminders do not work at night, etc.

• I have been looking for

  I like it, there is room to grow, but it is convenient to use

• My first review

  From Fragile

  Nice app, simple, easy to use. But here, in fact, there is still work and work: the competitors are still better.

• I put paid immediately

• Everything suits me!

  Great app for time control and management. There are all the useful features. Convenient, practical!

• Super!!!

  From Zhul "kp

  Many thanks!

• Conveniently

  Very conveniently simple

• Very bad

  From Ivan Hafizov

  I installed the free version first, used it, everything works, I liked it. I bought it. And away we go: 1. Data from free can not be transferred; 2. If the business starts today and ends tomorrow, then negative percentages appear in the report (it took -23% of the time to sleep); 3. Today, the data entered the next day from the program disappear without a trace and inexplicably; 4. When editing values, the "save" button sometimes disappears. That is, it becomes impossible to save the edited; 5. When editing values, there are no notifications if cases start to overlap (while editing, I accidentally saved a case on another day. It turned out that there were two cases at the same time on that day, and on the one I ruled there was a hole. And to find in which one day this record flew away, I had to look through everything!) In general, if you add to this periodically the absence of any reaction to pressing the buttons in the program, it will become completely clear that the developers of this program should not put stars, but give a huge file so that they could, if not bring to mind, then at least finish up to normal performance.

• Okay, but bugs

  A good application, but fix the bugs - if there are two or more notes (types of cases) in a category - it is impossible to describe one more - the buttons disappear, the same thing if there are two or more events in the calendar. Also, you cannot turn off calendars. Removing helped, but Google's one is not removed.

• A great time management and self-control app that has been waiting for a long time.

  From Stas Kornienko

  Request: to make the sound of notifications different from the standard sound for SMS so as not to get confused.

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