What are /r/TimeManagement's favorite Products & Services?

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https://getpocket.com

Haven't explored this app too much. I think it's an catch all for all the content you put on your "read / watch later" list.

Useful if you are like me and have a tendency to have 10 tabs open at once for articles I am supposed to read at some point.

I started a blog this year, and I recently wrote a post on how I established my goals and made time to do them. The whole post might be helpful, but to save you some time, the link skips straight to the part about time management.

The TLDR is to think about the task you want to do (say writing a blog post) ask yourself two questions:

1. Does it seem realistic that this amount of effort will get me to my goal in a reasonable amount of time?
2. How hard will it be to block off this amount of time in my day?

If the answer to (1) is “no,” then work on creating more time in your day. One obvious thing here would be to utilize your commute to do outlining or research or something. Even if you’re driving, you might be able to do something like an audiobook to make progress. Likewise with the shower… I listen to Spanish in the shower to get more language learning input.

If the answer to (2) is “hard,” then you should add commitment devices to make sure that you are using the time you do have more effectively. Basically reward yourself for taking the time and punish yourself for failing to do so. My favorite punishment right now is Beeminder, which fines you money if you get off track. Works great for me; your mileage may vary.

Hope this helps… I have a bunch more ideas if you’re interested.

I thought Gleeo Time Tracker was really excellent when I was tracking my time. It's worth the investment of learning to use it. Maybe there's better now as I haven't tracked time for a few years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.gridvision.pbtm.androidtimerecorder

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I think the book How To Control You Life has pretty advanced stuff in it. Did you develop any other technique than the ones inside it?

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Hey. I totally know how you feel, as I am the same way myself and also always struggled with procrastination.

Some things that have worked for me over the years:

• Get into the habit of scheduling your day in the morning (or even better, the day before). That way your mind is already preparing in advance for the upcoming tasks.
• When planning the day, try committing to certain time-frames within a day. A simple calendar app will be enough to start out. Use it to schedule your tasks for a specific time of the day.
• When it comes to using time-trackers. Then the usual problem you will face is to forget to start (or pause) the timer. I have some knowledge in that area, as I've created an automatic time-tracking app myself, that tackles that exact problem. You don't have to use it, but it helps a lot in tracking your time properly. There are a few apps out there that try to solve that problem, so you can give them a try as well to find the perfect fit for you.
• Another tool I would highly recommend is — Notion. I am managing and scheduling everything in there. You can plan your tasks with it, note down ideas, plan your day, etc. They've recently introduced a timeline view, which helps a lot with that. It's free to use, so you can give it a go.

If you have any questions — let me know. Happy to help.

Not a book, but you may benefit from looking into 'Task Batching'.

There are Books, but you can probably find out enough online without having to read them.

I use todoist https://todoist.com/ru to create and track all of my tasks and activities; it's also useful for delegating responsibilities to my staff. I also use WorkTime https://www.worktime.com/employee-time-tracking-software time tracking software to track time on tasks and run reports to see what I spend the most time on to help me become more efficient.

This problem could be solved with the help of time tracking service, like Yaware.TimeTracker. If you want to keep precise time records then you should use an automatic time tracking service, so nobody would have to log int the time worked or could change the records. If interested, learn more here: http://timetracker.yaware.com/automated-time-tracking-service

I make a list of everything I need to get done and start checking stuff off the list, going from the easiest stuff to harder stuff.

It also helps me to write down why I need to get these things done. Like, "I want to finish this now so I can do x in a few months" etc., and I keep it visible. Maybe make it your desktop background.

Use something like https://www.forestapp.cc/ to keep yourself from being distracted on your computer.

If you want to go to Notre Dame, know that it's going to be A LOT of work. If you can't manage your time now, that's not going to be fixed when you get to college just because you're in college. It'll be harder to manage your time because you won't have your parents reminding you about deadlines. You'll have many more distractions in college than at home.

If you really want to go to Notre Dame, then learning to manage your time now is part of reaching that goal. You'll always have funner things available to you.

Any work turned in is better than no work turned in. Allow yourself to be imperfect. Turn in stuff you know won't be great, but will get a passing grade. Right now is about turning a mass of work, not necessarily the best quality, but good enough to scoot on through.

Also, believe that you can do. I know it's cheesy, but trust yourself that you can get it done. Know that you can do it if you focus yourself. Recognize that you are in emergency mode right now and you need to turn over work like nuts. If you really want to pass, find a way to get it done and stop allowing excuses to run your life.

tl;dr Just do it. But you know, one thing at a time.

The one that I can be of most help with is a time tracker. TimeNavi- the company I work for - is a time tracker for Google Calendar, it tracks what your calendar events are (i.e. how much time you spend on a certain colour task in the last year) and you can export that info to Google Sheets.

My advice on the other front is an app called clockify.me. It doesn't quite do what you're asking about movable time blocks that you can't overlap but it is an upgrade of Google Calendar for time blocking and has hundreds of extra features, most of which are free. I like it as an app even if it is a competitor to the company I work for!

I find time management softwares to be quite handy.

For work, I use productivity tools to help manage my task. This helps keep track of deadlines and set reminders.

I use project management softwares.

Currently using Quire to manage my tasks and so far it has been working really well.

I've been using Quire for a bit and I like it a lot, since I got it I got rid of todoist and a couple other apps I was using. It has a lot of features with more being added pretty regularly, too. It doesn't have a calendar view, but it does have a gantt/timeline view and it integrate with google calendar. It's designed for teams, but I've been using it solo and it's great. (just enable auto-assign tasks to self)

Focus on the structure of your life and what it inclines you to do. Improve the structure, improve the outcomes.

Checkout the book "Path of Least Resistance", for more on this: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Least-Resistance-Learning-Creative/dp/0449903370

Day by day

Reminds me a lot of Outlook in its ability to do repeating tasks but has a greater range of customization for repeating time frames. For example: I want to have my rug vacuumed every tuesday and every third friday, the app allows me to setup the tasks to repeat for those times without having to have a second set of appointments or tasks.