Our Best Articles on Self Tracking

Streamlining team workflows: The power of shared time tracking for project success

Time is our most valuable resource, but it’s also often the most mismanaged. When you’re juggling the efforts of multiple people working on the same project, the struggle of time management becomes amplified. You don’t necessarily want to monitor an employee’s every move, but you do need to know where they are in their work […]

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Hidden costs of manual timesheet methods: A closer look at productivity drain

Self Tracking, Teams, Technology

At a point when businesses are so technology-driven, manual timesheet methods sound like a thing of the past. It brings to mind your first job at a grocery store 20 years ago when you had to punch in and out on one of these bad boys. But believe it or not, 38% of U.S. employees

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Navigating time tracking challenges: Empowering yourself for success

Self Tracking

Let’s be honest—at RescueTime, we can’t say enough good things about time tracking. That’s not because we just think it’s a great habit, but because we’ve seen its benefits play out for more than 2 million users. At this point, you know that time tracking comes with a variety of advantages, but maybe you’ve hit

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Mastering prioritization could change your life

Self Tracking, Workplace Productivity

Those of you reading this blog, those interested in the pursuit of productivity and work-life balance, and all those nice things, probably have a lot of dreams. It’s something that binds us. We want to be better in more than one area of our lives. There’s our health, our social lives, our personal work—and the

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Our universal struggle with motivation

Meaningful Work, Self Tracking

Why is motivation something that’s never completely dealt with? Why are issues with motivation always…there? They’re seemingly an unrelenting part of the human experience. They’re also seemingly a universal experience for anyone trying to accomplish anything in their life. There’s some comfort in that, to be sure, but it’s also confounding. Has no one cracked

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The scary power of fatigue

Burnout, Self Tracking

We spend a lot of time here at RescueTime talking about how to make ourselves more productive. How to make ourselves, in a sense, more powerful in our work and the way we go about it. And there are myriad powerful forces and strategies out there we can harness to aid us in this journey. Of

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Going back to basics to get more done

Building Good Habits, Self Tracking

We’re all guilty of it. We’re in one of those moments when we get all inspired (often at 2am on a Sunday) and make proclamations, make plans to change our lives. “This time I’m gonna do it all. Health and productivity and social life and everything else.” So we set about biting off more than

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Making your New Year’s resolutions stick, one last time

Self Tracking, Setting Goals

Happy New Year, friends! It’s a pretty tired routine at this point. A new article on a productivity blog, published on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd—you could easily guess what it might be about: the fabled New Year’s Resolution. Either it’s an unironic and wholesome piece of inspirational writing about the power of belief and

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The schedule is the secret

Self Tracking, Time Management

The end of the year can be a tough time for us productivity warriors. In a perfect world, we’d be looking back at a year of achievements and progress and, you know, being proud of ourselves. But for many of us, we spend this time worrying about how we could have been better—more organized, more

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There’s more time than you think

Meaningful Work, Self Tracking

It’s a feeling you might be familiar with: being “booked tight.” It’s a weirdly complicated thing to experience. Because, yes, if you’re looking enough to truly enjoy what you’re doing, it can be a deeply fulfilling experience. Like you’re doing exactly what you should be doing with your time—using all of it to its fullest

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