Where time goes: Track your time flow
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1: Before we begin
    • My Time Log, my first teacher
    • Who can keep time records for 56 years
    • Three benefits of keeping track of time
    • What do you hope to gain from the time record?
    • What exactly is time recording?
    • Does it hurt when you waste your time?
    • Costs and disadvantages of time recording
    • Start quickly with pen and paper
    • The difference between time electronic ledger and manual ledger
    • I advise you for the last time before you start recording.
  • Chapter 2: software operation
    • An article makes it clear that TimeTrack
    • TimeTrack, use it first
    • Five core functions of TimeTrack
    • Three data views included with TimeTrack
    • Maintain only up to 30 activity classifications
    • 5 common ways to categorize time
    • How to time multiple activities simultaneously
    • Take 1 month to polish your categories and definitions
    • Tips for color, naming and layout of categories
    • Use these 2 automatic recording software to assist in recording
  • Chapter 3: Advanced skills
    • System function - time calibration, automatic correction of associated data
    • System function - location, with scene markers
    • System function - archive, put away the unused categories
    • System function - tomato clock, focus on goal achievement
    • System function - countdown to prevent time wastage
    • Remote operation - how to control the mobile phone operating software with a computer
  • Chapter 4: Data analysis
    • TimeTrack data export and mapping
    • What to do with weekly exported data reports
    • What to do with monthly exported data reports
    • Automated data processing, 30 seconds to completion
    • It's a time record and an important diary.
    • Is data security and privacy guaranteed?
    • Data analysis methodology to make time work for you
    • You can look at the data from these 6 angles
    • No clue,That's because you're not asking the right questions.
  • Chapter 5: Illustrative examples
    • Example 1: How is my sleep?
    • Example 2: Did I do the right thing after changing jobs?
    • Example 3: Should I buy this dishwasher?
    • Example 4: How effective is my writing?
    • Example 5: The cost of recording
    • Example 6: A future home where the water is big enough for the bath
    • Example 7: Save money with piracy? Not necessarily.
    • Example 8: Pricing based on hourly rates
    • Example 9: The flow of time brings out the clever
    • Example 10: What have I been doing in the New Year?
    • Example 11: Give yourself a point.
  • Chapter 6: More content
    • Frequently Asked Questions about aTimeLogger and TimeTrack
    • Let more Chinese enthusiasts start time keeping
    • Excellent articles related to timekeeping
    • Other time recording software
    • Everything is connected and the future of time recording is in our minds
    • 4 New Thoughts on Time
    • Bringing the timekeeping method to life
  • Postscript
  • Software payment
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  1. Chapter 5: Illustrative examples

Example 3: Should I buy this dishwasher?

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I don't like to cook, but I want to buy a dishwasher, and I don't know if it's cost-effective or not.

Open TimeTrack "cook" time and verify as follows.

Assuming a dishwasher costs $2,000, I sift through the monthly pivot table for the ≈20 hours I spend on "washing dishes".

With $2000/year spent on "dishwashing" (20h), you get.

When the $2,000 dishwasher is bought back for only one year, it pays $100/hour, $50/hour the second year, and $33/hour the third year.

That's when the decision is simplified to "Are you willing to buy your time for $100 an hour?" Then consider whether to rent the house, the life of the dishwasher and so on, calculate the cost before starting, the idea will be much clearer.

By the same token we can judge how much to buy the right phone, why would someone buy an $8,000 phone and not feel expensive?

Assuming a per capita mobile phone usage time of 4 hours per day, a mobile phone is paid 2 yuan per hour, if a mobile phone can be used for 2 years, then the cost to the user should be 5840 yuan (24365*2=5840).

Now can you understand why anyone would want to buy an $8,000 phone? Because even at $8,000, the hourly rate paid for a cell phone is only $2.70/hour! It's too small a deal compared to the money they make with their phones.