Keeping sane in the face of digital overload isn’t easy. There are a lot of things that look like quick fixes, but the gains they provide rarely last for more than a couple of weeks. I find that it’s usually a lot work to change my behavior and form good habits. Which is why I […]
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It’s that time of year again. The distraction of gorgeous summer days is winding down, and it’s time to start settling in for a productive Autumn. Learning is the theme of the week here at RescueTime. Some of you are going back to school. If you aren’t, consider dusting off your skills or learning some
Weekly Productivity Roundup, the Back to School edition Read More »
Happy September, folks! Here’s our weekly roundup of productivity articles that you may have missed (hopefully because you were out enjoying one of the last few weeks of summer). The Most Valuable Lesson I Learned from Playing the Violin Practice makes perfect, right? Yes, but it helps if you know the correct way to practice. Noa
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Rise and shine! Hope you got to rest up and recharge a bit over the weekend! We read a lot this week about the effects of sleep and relaxation on your productivity, so we decided to take the theme and run with it. Here’s a nap-tastic set of productivity links for you to start your
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If you’re like most people, you’ve probably tried several different tricks to improve productivity in the workplace. And If you’re like me, many of the tricks you’ve tried haven’t worked very well. Maybe that new to-do list application makes you feel motivated for a week or so, but pretty soon you find you’re not using
Feedback loops: Your secret weapon for productivity in the workplace Read More »
Here’s a few productivity and time management articles that came up on our radar this week. Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email This article from the Atlantic is sad but true, and we see pretty much the same results (on average) for RescueTime users. Knowledge workers spend a LOT of time in
Productivity and Time management roundup for the week of Aug 13 Read More »
We do a lot of self-tracking experiments over here at RescueTime. At any given time, at least one of us is keeping an eye on something. It might be how much time we spend in email, how many lines of code we’ve written, or looking at how much sleep we get each night to see
Self-tracking tip: Use a running average to make sense of noisy data Read More »
Note: For more about email overload, check out this post, where we discuss some of the root causes and several strategies for dealing with it. We’ve known for a while that communications can be a huge time-sink. Many people treat their various input streams as something that needs to be on all the time. There
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We built RescueTime because we thought it should be easier to make sure we’re spending our time the way we want to. It has opened up a whole new world of data for us, and we wanted to share some of the ways we make use of it around the office. Forming a baseline lets
How we use RescueTime, at RescueTime. Read More »
To start Focused Time!: Click (or right-click) the RescueTime icon in your system-tray (win) or menubar (os x) Select “Get Focused!” Enter a time period to focus for Note: Focused Time! is only available to RescueTime Pro subscribers. Ever have times when you need to hunker down and focus on something, but can’t seem to
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