Rescue Your Time By Knowing Where You Spend It

I installed the program RescueTime recently to try and track my activities on a normal day. I didn't change my routine by much. I allowed myself to get on my usual social networking sites and art accounts, just to see how naturally I tend to spend time on them.

Whoops.

Based on the data it gathered, I'm only 55% productive, which is an eye-opener. I'm a little surprised at how I'm unproductive on Weekdays. I think that's because I'm usually out for grad school...

I need to tweak the settings a little more. For example, it doesn't log my short breaks with a particular game as 'unproductive'. I checked its analysis of the sites and apps I frequently open. To my delight, Photoshop was at the top of the list, since I've been drawing every day. To my horror, Facebook and Tumblr were next in line. Granted, I post my daily work for Doodle a Day on our tumblr account, but this makes me wonder if I should nest my drawings and post them in one go... the problem with that is that I tend to get lazy and not go through with it since I've left them laying around for so long.

I'll let this program run another week and see if anything changes. :) This definitely means I have to fix my habits that are so automatic that I don't even notice I'm typing the URLs and checking the pages for the nth time.

- Mel