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Comment by acty1 | Hacker News Reader

This makes a lot of sense and explains a lot of the reactions I have berm getting since tracking my concentration meticulously with Toggl.

I work as a remote consultant and track everything down to the second.

"Filling out" timesheets and answering "how much I worked" a non issue.

I've been getting accolades for how much work I accomplish... even when I clock only 3-4 hours a day.

I've been using Qbserve [1] to track my productivity and it has been super helpful.

It divides your time up into Productive (iTerm, AWS...), Neutral (Email, Slack...) and Distracting (Reddit, Facebook...).

I've found if I get 5 productive hours in in a work day then it's been a very productive day.

How much time do you spend tracking everything? (I assume this is accounted for on a second-by-second accounting.)

I do it on the fly as in when I context switch.

Takes about 10 seconds max (copy paste ticket #, type meeting name, etc)

With a context switch every 15mins or quicker... probably easily 1 minute or 1.5 minutes per hour of work.

So somewhere like 1-2% "tax" on my time.

In practice though...I feel like an athlete and training my concentration and tracking results.

Having those few seconds sometimes helps you align efforts better

Thanks for the Toggl suggestion. I use RescueTime but it's very unstable on Linux. I will try this out.