# Contents
## Overviews
Everyone has a time machine that takes out 86,400 seconds a day.
（That's why I call aTimeLogger simply ATM）
And the difference between people is how you spend those 86,400 seconds. Are you Minute to Win It, or are you doing nothing?
This ebook is my take on the Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubishchev method of time recording.
Share how I've logged my time through TimeTrack / aTimeLogger, learned about myself from real data, entered the "record-categorize-analyze-change" positive loop, mastered my 86,400 seconds, and finally achieved my goal.
Data description: The examples in this book are **desensitization data**, not practical significance, for reference only
✍️ Word Count: 6 Chapters, 53 verses, 50,000 words
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## Contents
#### [Foreword](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/foreword)
#### [Chapter 1: Before we begin](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01)
1\. [My Time Log, my first teacher](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.1)
2\. [Who can keep time records for 56 years](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.2)
3\. [Three benefits of keeping track of time](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.3)
4\. [What do you hope to gain from the time record?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.4)
5\. [What exactly is time recording?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.5)
6\. [Does it hurt when you waste your time?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.6)
7\. [Costs and disadvantages of time recording](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.7)
8\. [Start quickly with pen and paper](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.8)
9\. [The difference between time electronic ledger and manual ledger](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.9)
10\. [I advise you for the last time before you start recording.](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch01/ch01.10)
[**Chapter 2: software operation**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02)
11\. [An article makes it clear that TimeTrack](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.11)
12\. [TimeTrack, use it first](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.12)
13\. [Five core functions of TimeTrack](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.13)
14\. [Three data views included with TimeTrack](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.14)
15\. [Maintain only up to 30 activity classifications](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.15)
16\. [5 common ways to categorize time](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.16)
17\. [How to time multiple activities simultaneously](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.17)
18\. [Take 1 month to polish your categories and definitions](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.18)
19\. [Tips for color, naming and layout of categories](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.19)
20\. [Use these 2 automatic recording software to assist in recording](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.20)
[**Chapter 3: Advanced skills**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03)
21\. [System function - time calibration, automatic correction of associated data](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.21)
22\. [System function - location, with scene markers](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.22)
23\. [System function - archive, put away the unused categories](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.23)
24\. [System function - tomato clock, focus on goal achievement](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.24)
25\. [System function - countdown to prevent time wastage](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.25)
26\. [Remote operation - how to control the mobile phone operating software with a computer](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.26)
[**Chapter 4: Data analysis**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04)
27\. [TimeTrack data export and mapping](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.27)
28\. [What to do with weekly exported data reports](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.28)
29\. [What to do with monthly exported data reports](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.29)
30\. [Automated data processing, 30 seconds to completion](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.30)
31\. [It's a time record and an important diary.](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.31)
32\. [Is data security and privacy guaranteed?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.32)
33\. [Data analysis methodology to make time work for you](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.33)
34\. [You can look at the data from these 6 angles](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.34)
35\. [No clue,That's because you're not asking the right questions.](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch04/ch04.35)
[**Chapter 5: Illustrative examples**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05)
36\. [Example 1: How is my sleep?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.36)
37\. [Example 2: Did I do the right thing after changing jobs?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.37)
38\. [Example 3: Should I buy this dishwasher?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.38)
39\. [Example 4: How effective is my writing?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.39)
40\. [Example 5: The cost of recording](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.40)
41\. [Example 6: A future home where the water is big enough for the bath](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.41)
42\. [Example 7: Save money with piracy? Not necessarily.](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.42)
43\. [Example 8: Pricing based on hourly rates](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.43)
44\. [Example 9: The flow of time brings out the clever](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.44)
45\. [Example 10: What have I been doing in the New Year?](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.45)
46\. [Example 11: Give yourself a point.](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch05/ch05.46)
[**Chapter 6: More content**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06)
47\. [Frequently Asked Questions about aTimeLogger and TimeTrack](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.47)
48\. [Let more Chinese enthusiasts start time keeping](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.48)
49\. [Excellent articles related to timekeeping](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.49)
50\. [Other time recording software](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.50)
51\. [Everything is connected and the future of time recording is in our minds](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.51)
52\. [4 New Thoughts on Time](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.52)
53\. [Bringing the timekeeping method to life](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.53)
[**Postscript**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/postscript)
[**Software payment**](https://en.shijian.tujunjie.com/software-payment)
# Foreword
> When you are old, looking back on your life, you will find that when you go abroad to study, when you decide to take your first job, when you choose a partner and fall in love, and when you get married, are in fact great changes of fate. It's just that when you were at the crossroads, and you saw the storm, the day you made your choice, in your diary, was so dull and ordinary that you thought it was a normal day in your life.
>
> ——《杀鹌鹑的少女》
At the end of 2015, I saw on Zhihu how to sum up your 2015? The question, want to say something, but feel unable to talk about.
The powerlessness hit me in a flash, and I felt like I was drifting through life, and I didn't want to do that anymore.
In early 2016, after Reading @zou Xin's 《小强升职记》 And\@li Xiaolai's 《把时间当作朋友》, I decided to leave something behind.
I was shirtless, lying on the floor of a rented room with a mat on the floor, my head tilted as I swiped my phone, when I thought, "Oh, can you make a digital record of your daily life and quantify yourself? "
I went ahead and created my first life log using Excel.
In retrospect, I always thought it was just an ordinary day in my life. The ordinary me planted an ordinary seed for myself. What is not ordinary is that today, this seed bears fruit.
Over the years, I've been trying to build my own quantification system, thinking about how to digitize my life.
I keep diaries, thoughts, emotions, essays, contacts, work logs, financial records, time flows, page views, lists, etc.
I write an annual report for myself every year:
> [Personal Data: Tu JunJie To's 8,760 hours in 2016](https://www.jianshu.com/p/48f17baa5b68)
>
> [Personal Data: Tu JunJie To's 8,760 hours in 2017](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484438\&idx=1\&sn=70dc021c1d0ab16a86625f9bc9677c10\&chksm=eb21b652dc563f44e43d0a3e4a2a360747f39dbca58e717c3a5abaff20fe53c561172c774ca0#rd)
>
> [Personal Data: Tu JunJie To's 8,760 hours in 2018](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QZEl3droA1o3KP1RLooBqA)
>
> [Personal Data: Tu JunJie To's 8,760 hours in 2019](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247486123\&idx=1\&sn=1b7f16dd569747991fa2560aab452c4e\&chksm=eb21b8efdc5631f9e1fc4b9266a18b5e6755ba0bdae86d221473d23bc2e6eac7161013c1b55c\&token=1292930385\&lang=zh_CN#rd)
Of all the records, the one that drew the most admiration was my practice of the Alexander Alexandrovich Kornilov method of time recording.
Since October 2016, I've logged more than 20,000 hours using [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/).
Looking back at me four years ago, I was nothing more than a southland boy with no connections or resources.
At that time, I had nothing but a question that would haunt me for a long time.
> "Can't ordinary people leave anything for the world? "
The answer is no. I want to record, record what happened to me, record my history!
Four years later, I wrote my first time record ebook.
I've been a group manager for TimeTrack in China, and every day, 500 people log their wechat group conversations. I've been able to actively control the flow of time, reducing my entertainment time from 17% to 6% , i've got the top one in the "time record" category.
Where are you right now? I don't know where you're reading this.
You might have just gotten on the subway, you might have just opened the take-out, you might be shirtless and wearing slippers, you might just be browsing.
You may be as ordinary as I am.
But you can choose to change, and start by recording your actions, emotions, and times.
> The National Institutes of health did a study that helped 1,600 people with obesity problems lose weight. The two groups lost weight the same way, but one group was asked to keep track of what they ate, just to keep track, without doing anything else. As a result, the surprising thing happened: by the sixth month of the experiment, those who kept a daily food diary lost twice as much weight as everyone else.
>
> ——《好好学习》
When you start recording you turn on the "**awareness**" switch and **you become aware of what you are doing**, what is good and what is not.
Only by turning on this switch can you possibly "improve" .
3 days, 5 days, 10 days, may not change much, but 3 years, 5 years, 10 years later, cultivate "long-distance running thinking, " you will look back to thank yourself now.
Because if you don't record it, it doesn't happen.
You start to show that "ordinary people can leave something for the world. "
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We're all born great. Welcome to us!
# Chapter 1: Before we begin
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
The [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/) and [aTimeLogger](http://www.atimelogger.com/) software used in this paper are independently developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny.
For payment of [TimeLogger & TimeTrack](https://shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.47#wo-yong-an-zhuo-timetrack-dan-shi-wu-fa-sheng-ji-zen-me-jie-jue), please scan the code:
# My Time Log, my first teacher
@ Zou Xin, author of 《小强升职记》and《只管去做》,
@ Jianfei, author of 《极速写作》,
@ Li Xiaolai, author of 《把时间当作朋友》and《财富自由之路》,
In 2016, I was lucky enough to be exposed to the concept of time management Through\@zou Xin's 《小强升职记》, and then realized that time can be perceived through a way of recording time and grow together while Reading\@li Xiaolai's 《财富自由之路》.
Finally, I found\@jianfei's simple book column "[Personal Big Data](https://www.jianshu.com/c/a4ccc5c7fe53)" on the Internet. He unselfishly disclosed his time recording method, and taught me what I could record and how to use it, it also lets me know what I can analyze, what I can improve, and where I can go by keeping track of time.
> [Personal big data | about the body of time](https://www.jianshu.com/p/a473420d2b3b)
>
> [Personal big data overview of Jianfei's three-year time record](https://www.jianshu.com/p/4b0caceaa654)
>
> [Jian Fei increases the value of time](https://www.jianshu.com/p/8ec5b32f9d72)
It is because of the selfless sharing of their experience, I can do more.
I hope this book is the best thanks to them!
# Who can keep time records for 56 years
> Alexander Alexandrovich Lubichev (April 5, 1890-August 31, 1972) was an entomologist, philosopher and mathematician in the former Soviet Union. Graduated from St. Petersburg National University, he has published more than 70 academic works, ranging from decentralized analysis, biological taxonomy to entomology. At the age of 26, he created an original "time statistics", which records the time spent on each event, makes monthly summaries and year-end summaries through statistics and analysis, in order to improve working methods and plan future affairs, so as to improve the efficiency of the use of time. During this period, he continuously improved this statistical method and used it for 56 years until his death.
>
> ——Baidu encyclopedia
Lubichev wrote a lot of books all his life, but what is well known to the world is not his works, but the "time / event recording method" he practiced.
This is a kind of "time statistics" invented by Lubichev when he was 26 years old. Record the time expenditure of each event, through statistics and analysis, make monthly summary and year-end summary, in order to improve working methods, plan future affairs, and improve the efficiency of time utilization.
Over the past 56 years, he continued to improve this statistical method, writing non-stop, until his death at the age of 82, with amazing perseverance.
If you want to know more about Lubichev's life, you can read the book 《[奇特的一生](https://book.douban.com/subject/1115353/)》.
My first reaction after reading this book was admiration, cool🍺，The second reaction is:
> Normal people wouldn't do that, would they?
Like most people's attitude towards time recording nowadays, they recognize its value, but ten people refuse to do so.
Not only that, I also wrote the sentence "I don't need it" in my diary.
Unexpectedly, I "hit in the face" after a trial for a period of time, and found that I was really not a "normal person".
Since October 2016, 24-hour full-time time recording has been kept out of control, and more than 20000 hours have been recorded so far.
When I think about it, sticking to the time record has brought me at least three benefits.
# Three benefits of keeping track of time
Sticking to the time record for these three years has brought me at least three major benefits.
**01. know yourself and let me know where I spend my time**
Where the time is, the achievement is there. I can know myself through the flow of time.
For example, what do I do after work?
For example, what is my real hourly rate?
For example, how am I sleeping?
For example, do you know what I watch when I am entertaining?
In the process of time recording, **recording this action will constantly enhance your perception of time.**
The precipitated data can also help me constantly recognize myself and find my true self.
> "know yourself."
>
> \-- Socrates
Lubichev time recording is one of the best ways for us to know ourselves.
**02. Help me realize that being a man requires the unity of words and deeds.**
Supported by the data provided by time records, I can write a personal big data annual report every year to review my personal gains and losses and form a list of the next steps. From the data, I know:
1. I spend 900 hours a year on entertainment, playing with my mobile phone and watching movies half the time.
2. Although I say that I value my family and friends more, I spend less than 1% of my pure communication time with my family every year.
3. My writing efficiency is only 600 words per hour.
4. I boast that I love learning, but in fact I am addicted to "entertainment" after work.
5. The hourly salary of my job is not as high as I thought.
6. ......
We often make verbal promises or "think" of something, **but there is often different between imagination and fact.**
The real time record is an inner yardstick that helps me recognize the status quo and try to match words with deeds.
> "if you can't measure it, you can't improve it."
>
> \-- Lord Kelvin
Once we can measure our behavior by data, progress will follow.
**03. Let me build a personal brand in the "time record" segment.**
The three years of recording time with aTimeLogger (now using TimeTrack) has not only made me friends with developer Sergei Zaplitny, but also made me meet a lot of enthusiasts who made me realize that even in a niche field, there are unmet needs.
It is quite possible that we are the first seed group in China to adhere to self-quantification.
(Self-quantifying Community QS: )
The reason for persistence, in addition to these three gains, but also because "most people can not stick to it", but let me have a sense of "rare" satisfaction.
😜
From October 2016 to October 2019, three years.
I have benefited a lot from repeating the positive cycle of "recording, classifying, analyzing" changes in the process of time recording.
I hope that through my sharing, I can make more people feel the charm of time recording, and also tell all the friends who are silently insisting on recording:
> "on minority roads, you are not alone."
# What do you hope to gain from the time record?
I once asked everyone in moments, "what do you want to gain from keeping track of time?"
Your answers can be summed up as follows:
* I wish I knew where I spent my time.
* Want to know yourself through the allocation of time.
* I want to make myself more efficient and self-disciplined through time recording.
* Want to have a reference to digital indicators
Everyone has their own priorities, but generally speaking, time recording is a way to help you **restore order in your life.**
Stick to the time record and you can:
1. Have "long-distance running thinking", not only live in the present, but also focus on the future.
2. Establish the order of life, enhance the sense of control, and reduce anxiety and confusion.
3. Discover your hobbies through real data.
4. "See" your growth and change.
5. Hone your patience and experience the power of dripping water to wear stones.
As the old saying goes, "learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will fall behind." the same is true of life. If you don't take the initiative to plan, you will be pushed by life.
Lubichev's time recording method is very suitable:
* People who have a sense of cherishing their time want to know where their time has gone.
* People who want to be friends with time and achieve their goals better and faster.
* People who want to leave something for the world, or even write their own Historical Records.
* Confused, do not know who they are and who can become, hope to know more about themselves
* Data geeks, people who are obsessed with quantification and like to deal with data.
Time record is your own scale, not the kind of rest assured, but quantified on the table.
[Many elites have recommended "records" on different occasions.](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GrgonlZPIa0yykui0XsC9A) In addition to using data to help us reflect, time records can also be accumulated and passed on. The precipitated data can give you the ability to "time travel" and quickly "return" to the same day.
Using the accumulated time records, I wrote[ the first autobiography of my life.](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BEOzB88Oj34h4b4M-0mxHA)
In other words, in addition to helping you find a time black hole, time records can also help you change your behavior and leave your life experience. If you want to recognize yourself, if you feel out of control of your life, you don't know where to start anew. Try "time record".
Trust me, your life **will be** different!
Just like when I was 22 years old, when I was doing the Proust questionnaire, there was a question.
> What do you think is your greatest achievement?
My answer at that time was "college entrance examination notes".
My answer is "college entrance examination notes"?
At the age of 26, I answered this question again when I was doing the Proust questionnaire.
> What do you think is your greatest achievement?
What I wrote was, "the time record is 20,000 hours, a day goes on and on."
It is exciting to think about driving more people to start recording time, or even to create a time data museum.
What about you? what do you think is the greatest achievement in your life so far?
# What exactly is time recording?
Let me try to define what a "time record" is.
**01. What is it?**
Time recording is a method to actively control the flow of time and achieve the goal by recording the time consumption of various events.
**02. Why?**
There are many ways to achieve your goal. Why choose "time record"?
Because when we "want to achieve a certain goal", this goal is mostly imagined, and there is no historical data to prove **whether** **this goal is reasonable** and how likely it is to achieve it. Time recording can help us find out the "real time consumption", help us know ourselves, and actively control the flow of time to achieve our goals more effectively.
**03. How?**
Time recording can be started at any time, paper, pen and software records can be used, we recommend using TimeTrack/aTimeLogger software to record, data are saved on the Internet, portable and easy to store and statistical analysis.
We discover who we really are by recording, and then use the recorded data as a reference to complete self-correction.
# Does it hurt when you waste your time?
It is strange that if we lose 86400 yuan, we should collapse, but we waste 86400 seconds of a day, but we don't feel sad at all.
**Our perception of time is much smaller and slower than money.**
Assuming you have never taken any time notes, please answer these three questions:
1. What are the three activities that you spend the most time each week / month?
2. What do you do after work and what do you do on weekends?
3. How much time do you think you have been wasted?
Think about these three questions first, and then I'll tell you some Chinese average data.
1. The average mobile phone lights up for 4-5 hours a day.
2. Watch movies and TV dramas for an average of 3-4 hours a day.
3. The average time of individual discretionary activities is 4 hours.
The 《[2018年全国时间利用调查公报](http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/zxfb/201901/t20190125_1646796.html)》given by [China's National Bureau of Statistics](http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2019-01/25/content_5361066.htm) reads as follows:
> "watching TV is still the main way of leisure for residents, with 1 hour and 40 minutes in 2018, but 26 minutes less than a decade ago, accounting for 6.9 percent of the whole day, down 1.8 percentage points; leisure and entertainment time is 1 hour and 5 minutes, an increase of 25 minutes over 2008, accounting for 4.5 percent of the whole day, an increase of 1.7 percentage points."
In other words, most people sleep for 8 hours and work for 8 hours. In the remaining 8 hours, apart from eating and washing, and excluding the average free time spent playing mobile TV series and reading books, the real time for study and training is only 1.9%. An average of 27 minutes a day.
**Do you spend 27 minutes on your study every day?**
Maybe one afternoon you were really ashamed of wasting your time, but only for a few hours, and then you were immediately attracted by the hot search on Weibo or the beautiful little sister Douyin.
Wait until the next time I don't know when to be ashamed, and what will change after the shame is over? I'm afraid it will be a "shameless" endless cycle.
There are also a large number of people who simply do not realize that they are "wasting time". Why is it recommended that you take a time record? Because the record is a switch, let you re-sense the passage of time, live in more than 50 times a day (an average of 50 times a day to switch activities) strong reminders, the probability of change soars!
After reading this report, you can also find that even if you don't need time recording, you don't learn any methodology of time management.
The simplest and most practical way to control wasted time is:
> It is forbidden to play TV series and play with mobile phones.
If you want to accommodate time with nowhere to spend, add two more:
1. Read your goals once a day.
2. Find (1-3) things to do that will make money.
Come to think of it, you realize when other people don't realize they're wasting time, and then you spend four hours a day on most people's phones to study or develop hobbies, and six years later, you can become a 10000-hour expert, at least a Top10 in a niche.
Think about the time you wasted, and look at this picture.
Where is the course of your life? What are you going to do for the next six years?
Time records help you "**see**" the time.
Six years later, other people will only say, "Oh, time is gone." You, on the other hand, know where the time has gone.
> Where time is, there is achievement.
# Costs and disadvantages of time recording
> The realization of tomorrow's dream is built on today's sacrifice.
>
> ——《管道的故事》
《奇特的一生》It has been 40 years since it was published in 1979.
Some people may ask, "if the time record is really so good, why is it still not popular?"
Because it looks boring and doesn't work in the short term.
The reasons why I can hold on are:
1. "seeing" myself changed, I know it works.
2. Accumulate material for future memoirs.
3. The inertia of persistence makes me unwilling to give up.
If you are still on the sidelines, I suggest you try it directly. You don't need any software, and it takes time to record it with pen and paper.
No matter how boring you are and how much you want to give up halfway, just tell yourself, "**just hold on for a week.**"
A week later, analyze your time consumption and you will know that you are wrong about your time consumption.
If you want to change, make a list of actions and implement it!
After you think the "time record" action is really useful, transfer to the software.
In addition to being boring and difficult to work in the short term, many students are worried about "wasting time". Although any skill will come in handy one day, when it comes to the cost of time, according to my full-time record, it will take 20 minutes a day.
If you think 20 minutes is a waste, ask yourself, "where's your Ferrari?"
> Woman: do you smoke?
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> Man: smoke.
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> Woman: how many bags per day?
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> Man: three packs.
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> Woman: how much is each pack?
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> Man: two pounds.
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> Woman: how long have you been smoking?
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> Man: 15 years. Woman: so it costs you 2190 pounds a year to smoke over the years.
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> Man: correct.
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> Woman: 2190 pounds a year, regardless of currency, you've spent a total of 32850 pounds smoking in the past 15 years, right?
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> Man: mm-hmm. Woman: do you know? If you don't smoke, put the money in a high-interest savings account at a compound interest rate. You can buy a Ferrari now.
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> Man: do you smoke?
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> Woman: no.
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> Man: what about your Ferrari?
Some students complain that the recording software is not easy to use and want to wait until the software is more perfect before starting. I believe that there will be better recording tools, even automated and insensitive ones, in the future. You can wait until then, but time won't wait for you.
As time goes by, you can never get it back.
Finally, if you stick to the time record, you may often be slap in the face by yourself, which is also a disadvantage. "😂
You will find from the data that all kinds of excuses are no longer valid, such as self-consolation that "I have been too busy to exercise recently". When I analyze the time, I find that there are still more than 2 hours a day, but you use it to browse the show. For example, you comfort yourself by saying, "I'm good. Getting up at 5 o'clock every day is not a problem for me, but I just don't think of it." but when you look at the sleep data, you never get up at 5 o'clock.
> "It's better to retreat and make a net than to envy the fish
Weigh the pros and cons instead of following others.
# Start quickly with pen and paper
In the cost of time recording, I mentioned that if you record it full-time, you need to spend 20 minutes on the software every day.
Some students will feel that "it is really troublesome to learn the operation of the software" and give up.
It has been said before that "time recording is just a means to an end". Tools are not important, and you can start immediately with pen and paper.
You don't believe me? For example, set a goal: "what do you want to achieve with time recording?"
> "I want to know what I do during my 10 hours at work every day."
Don't find this question boring, how can you not know what you are doing at work? Send and receive email, dock demand, have meetings, work overtime.
Not necessarily.
Let's try it.
Starting from tomorrow, every time you work, use a pen and paper to write down the time interval in your book, such as:
> 09:00-09:15—— Organize documents.
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> 09:15-09:30——Send and receive email.
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> 10:10-10:40——Leaders' meeting
As for going to the toilet, deserting, checking information, and chatting with colleagues, these time can not be counted, insist on 3 days.
(it's all right. Your leader won't see this form. Make sure it's true and effective.😀)
If nothing happens, your record will be similar to this table in three days.
> On the first day, the working hours are 3.4 hours.
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> The next day, 5.2 hours of work.
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> On the third day, the working hours are 4.5 hours.
The statistical result is that they work an average of 4.4 hours a day.
What would you think if you really worked 10 hours a day and found that the real working time was only 4.4 hours?
**Do you really think you've been at work for 10 hours, or do you just stay in the office for 10 hours?**
Where did the time go? What did you use to fill in the unrecorded gaps? Chat, paddle, eat instant noodles?
Now you see, the first function of time recording is to "discover the gap between imagination and reality".
According to my experience and observation, the "time efficiency" of most people at work fluctuates from 65% to 85%. In other words, of the seven hours of work a day, only five hours may be really used for work. And productivity decreases significantly over time, not as you might think, the more time you spend, the more results you get.
In addition to the "gap between imagination and reality", we can also see two unreasonable points in this timetable:
1. The time for sending and receiving email is too fragmented, affecting work efficiency.
2. It takes too long to be a PPT.
If you want to change, there are at least two things you can do:
1. Except for email reminders set by important people, other emails are processed at a fixed time every day, and reply templates are set.
2. Catch up on PPT skills, learn to use plug-ins, or use charisma to ask co-workers to do it for you.
This is another function of time logging, "finding time-consuming blocks of time and targeted improvement".
Because in our work, we often work hard and encounter problems, even if we feel that something is wrong at that time, but when things are done, we will not think about it again. As a result, when we encounter the same scene again, it takes time to repeat it, and the problem still exists.
A black-and-white record allows you to see the problem, enhance reminders, and reduce the likelihood that the problem will be ignored.
In addition, recording an action with a pen and paper before doing something is an "attention switch" for the brain, which seems to remind yourself, "Hey, you need to start doing X, concentrate." Each switch makes you "feel more focused".
This way of invoking attention is like learning pyramids.
Listening is better than writing and learning is better than teaching. each record is a reminder, which strengthens the cognition of learning.
In this case, we just write it down and find out:
1. Real time consumption.
2. Two problems left over that are neglected every day.
3. Recording this action can actually improve your attention.
From pen and paper to software, I used about 5 days, these 5 days handwritten records, so that I really found the benefits of recording. So I don't find it troublesome to get started with TimeTrack, because I know it can significantly improve the efficiency of my records, and I have an expectation.
If you are going to start recording the time, you might as well start with pen and paper.
If you find handwriting troublesome, you can also print the following image and fill in the template:
Some students will find it inconvenient to switch from keyboard to pen and paper when recording at work. In fact, they can also use computer notepad instead.
So, tools are not a problem, pen and paper can be used quickly.
After you switch from pen and paper to TimeTrack software, you will think, Oh, my God, it's so convenient.
# The difference between time electronic ledger and manual ledger
If beginners are advised to start recording time with pen and paper, many students may think of "hand accounts".
Beautiful, customizable, freewheeling handbook attracts countless fans, so what's the difference between electronic ledger and manual ledger recorded by TimeTrack?
Let me use a table to compare and explain:
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Each has its own characteristics, and the red mark is the most critical issue. do you care more about beauty or the analysisability of the data?
When I see a beautiful handbook, I can't help but admire how beautiful it is! But the reason for my refusal is that in addition to the fact that drawing is too time-consuming, statistical analysis across time dimensions is a big problem. imagine that you have saved several handbooks and want to analyze the trend of time consumption in the last 3 years. How can you start?
Moreover, I think that if the electronic account has the visualization skills of Excel, it can be done no worse than the manual account, and it can also be beautiful with a sense of science and technology.😂
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Friends who like hand accounts can try it themselves. "tools are not the most important". Just choose what is right for you.
But if you are interested in the time e-book, you are welcome to join me to create your own time book.
# I advise you for the last time before you start recording.
Before you are in high spirits, I may still have to throw a pot of cold water.
> Have you figured out what you hope to gain from the time record?
Sometimes what you want to achieve doesn't have to be achieved through a time record. If you pay too much attention to form, you may take a detour.
For example, I used to consult Q students on time notes.
When I asked him what the purpose of keeping a time record was, he said, "I want to find out where my time is going through the time record."
Then ask me how to use the TimeTrack software, how to deal with the data, and so on, such as "HOW" and so on. I said don't rush to get on the tool.
Let's try the easiest way to solve your problem. I'll bring you a pen and paper.
He was asked to draw two pie charts. the first one divided the time into three parts: "sleep", "work" and "life". The second one asked him to recall the state of his life in the most recent week. which part of the time is spent more in these three parts?
Finally, Q drew it, which is something like figure 2. He said, "I work for 10 hours, sleep for 8 hours and live for 6 hours."
Then I asked, think again, what do you often do at work? Fill up the 10 hours of work proportionally, write no more than 3 of the most time-consuming things, and replace the rest with "other".
After thinking about it, he drew a new pie chart, marking two hours for sending and receiving email, two hour for PPT, one hour for meetings, and five hours for the other.
After splitting the work, I asked him to continue to split the "life" time in the same way as the working time block.
Then Q drew a distribution diagram like this.
I pointed to these pictures and said to Q, "Don't take any more notes, your problem has been found."
Q was a little confused at first, and he said, "Ah, is it as simple as that?"
I said yes, it's as simple as that. By combing through it, you have "seen" where your time has gone.
> Work takes a lot of time: email, PPT, meetings.
>
> Life takes a lot of time: movies and TV dramas, browsing mobile phones.
Even if you time with TimeTrack, the result is pretty much the same, but more accurate.
Quiet suddenly . I think if I don't explain a few words, Q will ask me for a refund😂.
Haha, I'm just kidding. What I'm trying to say is:
> **You don't have to use time records to find your most time-consuming part, because you know exactly what that part is, and you can find it just by imagination. The point is, even if you know it, you won't do it. So the problem is not "record" but "execution".**
It is useless to know where your time is spent, but also to put forward your expectations and ideas for improvement, where you want you to spend your time, and then change it on the basis of your recorded time, and **actively control the flow direction**. This is what time recording is all about.
Using timing software such as TimeTrack can help you locate the problem more accurately, but there is no way to change it for you.
This is why I do not want you to ask "HOW" as soon as you come here, but to ask "WHY" first.
Once you delve into the methodology, it is easy to be frightened by the complexity, and it may not be suitable for you. Just like some students know that I am a 24-hour full-time record, and I also want to record it 24 hours a day, but for newcomers, the most important thing should be:
1. Make it clear what time records are used for.
2. Get into the habit of recording.
3. Get a "sense of satisfaction" from the record
Imagine, if you were a primary school student who had just become interested in economics, and now you want to know more about economics, 《资本论》 and 《小岛经济学》, which one would you choose? If 《资本论》 is recommended, I am worried that you will be abused by passers-by from enthusiasts immediately.
Of course, if you have special talent, it is not impossible to "Difficult mode" when you come up.
Finally, let me summarize the simplest five steps of time recording:
1. Clear goal: why do you want to record time.
2. Draw a comparison between the actual time allocation and the expected time allocation.
3. Start recording with pen and paper (whatever is convenient to use) and ignore the accuracy appropriately.
4. Review time distribution regularly (day / week).
5. Find the difference, write down the reason, and execute it.
It is not very precise, and the granularity of recording can range from 15 minutes to half an hour.
For example, there are common methods on the market:
* 34 gold coins method
34 gold coins method, derived from @ Aili 《[你一年的8760小时](https://book.douban.com/subject/26695301/)》.
The author divides 24 hours a day, excluding 7 hours of sleep, the remaining 17 hours into 34 and a half hours, each half hour represents a gold coin, the focus is to record time every half hour, rather than accurate recording, the theoretical corresponding software has the time block of iOS.
* Deductive recording method.
My enlightening teacher, @ Zou Xin, the author of 《[小强升职记](https://book.douban.com/subject/25852981/)》, advocates "guiding records". According to the large records of a period of time, such as the range of 1-2 weeks, locate large blocks of time, targeted improvement, tools are the second.
* Subject recording method.
The topic recording method is a stripped-down version of the 24-hour full-time recording method, which records only a scene, such as only life or work.
This method is suitable for newcomers, starting with recording "the block of time you think should be changed most", cultivating a positive cycle of "recording, analysis and action" in this largest block of time, and giving priority to forming a habit.
There are many ways to use whichever you want, as long as **you make sure that the record is true**.
Looking back a few years ago, when I suddenly realized that time went by and I couldn't hold on to anything, I was desperate for a change, but I didn't even know where to start, so I tried to record the time and find out what the problem was.
This is an "action" that changed my life, **from "I want" to "I will do it"**.
Today, I have the ability to share my experience in practice over the past few years and promote the time recording method to more people. I hope you can also escape the "strange circle of laziness" and let you install a "switch" for yourself and spur yourself.
Just do it! Don't be "the giant of thought, the dwarf of action."
A little bit of dream, a little bit of courage, to experience life in a new way, you deserve a better life!
Remember:
> If you just wait, the problem will not go away, what will happen is that you get older.
# Chapter 2: software operation
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
The [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/) and [aTimeLogger](http://www.atimelogger.com/) software used in this paper are independently developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny.
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# An article makes it clear that TimeTrack
> This article is a contribution to a friend @ Bai Huan's 《[自我量化指南](https://ziwolianghua.com/)》 in July 2019. If you want to use an article to explain the basic software operation of TimeTrack and aTimeLogger, it is appropriate to put it here as a guide to "software operation".
TimeTrack is a Belarusian developer (@ Sergei Zaplitny)). App, for full-time recording is currently available in iOS and Android versions, which you can search and download at AppStore and Mi Store, respectively.
> * TimeTrack website：
> * ATimeLogger website：
> * Developer @ Sergei Zaplitny email:
**The difference between TimeTrack and aTimeLogger**
Both softwares are developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny, and the difference between them is shown below:
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You choose different software versions according to your own needs.
My personal advice is that iOS users use TimeTrack, Android users use aTimeLogger.
After testing whether you are used to the recording method of the software before paying, and verifying that you do have the need to record time, it is not too late to pay to support developers. Cymbal.
[Donate to SecretaTimeLogger](https://shijian.tujunjie.com/ch06/ch06.47#wo-yong-an-zhuo-timetrack-dan-shi-wu-fa-sheng-ji-zen-me-jie-jue) (enable advanced features) link:
To be clear, some iOS users will find aTimeLogger and aTimeLogger2 in AppStore, but the Android version is only aTimeLogger, where iOS's aTimeLogger2 is equivalent to Android aTimeLogger.
**Why use TimeTrack**
I began to record 24-hour full-time time in October 2016. up to now, I have recorded more than 20000 hours. I was the first to use aTimeLogger (Android) recording and transferred to TimeTrack (iOS) in 2019.
The original intention of the initial time recording was inspired by @ Zou Xin's 《小强升职记》and @ Li Xiaolai's 《把时间当作朋友》, hoping to improve his "awareness of time". Later, he made reference to a lot of @Teacher Jianfei 's practice, and formed his own time recording system.
Over the past three years, the most important change in time records for me is that "I can actively control the flow of time and achieve my goals through historical data."
The typical change is that my entertainment time has dropped from 17% to 6%, and my communication time has increased from 1.5% to 7%. I have a time goal in my head every day to remind myself of my progress.
According to my observation, the time record is particularly suitable for these three categories of people:
1. If you want to know where your time has gone, complete the self-examination by recording.
2. Record your life nodes and want to leave something for the world.
3. Data geek, personal quantification enthusiast
Like to deal with data if you want to get rid of fooling around, you are welcome to join us and be friends with time.
**How to use TimeTrack**
**Default settin**
Open TimeTrack, to modify the default settings of TimeTrack as follows:
1. More-Settings-when starting a new activity-pause an ongoing activity and start a new activity.
2. Open "time interval conflict reminder" (TimeTrack Android is not available).
3. Date format 2019-05Mui 13, time format 22:31.
4. Export data format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
5. The first day at the beginning of the time is set to "Monday"
6. Turn on Show seconds.
7. Minimum activity duration-not set
This is the default setting I recommend, and you can adjust it accordingly.
**Get started quickly**
After adjusting the appropriate default settings, you can get started quickly by mastering these skills.
* Start / stop timing
Open the TimeTrack main interface, click the default icon, the software starts timing, click the pause button to pause the timing, click the stop button to terminate the timing, and the activity moves from the main page to the "history list" archive, if you want to start again, you need to enter the activity on the history list page, and the modification status is paused or in progress.
The software allows multiple activities to be timed at the same time, but it is not recommended to do so, which can result in more than 24 hours a day.
If you haven't paused or stopped since you started the activity, the software will keep timing whether you clear the background or turn off the phone.
* New activity Category
The default activity category may not be to your taste, you can create the category you want. On the Category tab, click "+" in the upper right corner to set the event name, icon and color.
After the setting is completed, there is a sort icon in the upper right corner, which can be manually adjusted after clicking.
* System data View
The software provides three graphic modes: pie chart, calendar view and column chart.
On the History list tab, click on the date above to change the view.
* Target
Among the many categories, if you need to pay special attention to a particular indicator, you can use the "goal" function.
On the "target" tab, "+" in the upper right corner, create a new target, fill in the name and time, etc., "no less than" means least time, mostly used in gain target, "no more than" means most time-consuming, mostly used in damage target, progress bar will change in red, yellow and green over time.
* Search
If you are not used to exporting data analysis, you can also use the software's built-in search function directly.
In the History list tab drop-down, select the data date range, and search for keywords.
**Classification skills**
The most troublesome and unavoidable question of starting time recording is "how to classify time?" I recommend dividing all time items into one and two levels. Among them, the first-level classification is less than 7, and the second-level classification is less than 30, too few are incomplete, too many can not be remembered, and it is better for the number to be exactly 1 screen.
It is recommended that beginners keep another activity definition table, as shown in the figure:
Regularly review activities that you don't know how to classify at the time, and then add specific actions to the definition list.
**Remote control.**
At present, both TimeTrack and aTimeLogger are available on mobile, and the desktop version is still under development.
For people who are inconvenient to use their phones frequently at work, the alternative is to use an Android simulator.
* Download and install NetEase MuMu Simulator.
* Log in to your TimeTrack account and synchronize your data.
* Re-modify the software default settings.
* If there is a synchronization error, just restart the software.
**Data export**
To export data:
1. More-reports-\[Select time]-Export reports-CSV- sharing.
2. Use WPS to open the CSV file (Excel garbled, open with notepad and save to ANSI format).
3. Save to the data source table and analyze it
**What data can be analyzed?**
Once you have the data, you need to use your imagination to extract key information from the data. The most common analysis angles are:
* Frequency
* Summation
* Ratio
Then you need to use a little imagination and ask yourself questions, such as you can ask.
**What am I doing after work?**
Select the details in CSV, create a PivotTable, sum the duration of the active items, and descend the order.
Filter out the working days and select the period from 19 to early morning, as shown in the figure:
Suppose your data is like this, in addition to "sleep", the second place is "entertainment". Can you say that you continue to study after work and improve yourself by reading and writing?
The advantage of an honest record is that it keeps your false excuses hidden, faces your fears, and stimulates change.
**Should I change my job?**
Suppose there are two jobs now, with a monthly salary of 10,000 and a monthly salary of 13,000 after changing jobs, an increase of 30%. Should I change jobs? Leaving aside other factors such as the environment, we will calculate the account from the perspective of "hourly wage".
Filter "work" in the PivotTable to find the sum of the duration of each month, then create a new column, fill in the current month's salary, use the monthly salary / working hours of the current month, get the "hourly rate", select the data, and insert the line chart.
As shown in the figure:
We found that after changing jobs in January 2018, the hourly wage dropped from 85 yuan / h to 62 yuan / h, a negative growth of 22%.
On the surface, wages rise by 30%, but real hourly wages are negative by 22%. From an hourly point of view, this is not a good decision.
**How far are you from the master?**
If we use the "10,000-hour law" to measure the proficiency of a skill, have you reached 10,000 hours of proficiency?
What is the concept of 10,000 hours?
**Do one thing 8 hours a day for 3.5 years without interruption.**
For me, I spend an average of 20 minutes a day on TimeTrack records, plus 20 minutes of weekly analysis, 1 hour of analysis per month, and 10 hours of annual report summary each year.
Apart from deliberate practice, purely from a time point of view, I need to adhere to 25 years in order to achieve master achievement. What about you? Take a look at your time record. Which activity item has achieved the master achievement of "10,000 hours"?
**Summary**
If you focus on "accuracy" and want to record full-time rather than block records, then I highly recommend that you use TimeTrack.
In the process of recording time, you will be "aware of time" at first, especially when the activity switches to "damage time". Clicking this action is the first warning to tell yourself, "Hey, it's damage time. Be careful with it."
In addition to being good for self-reflection, these time records can also be accumulated and passed on. As time goes on, you will have the ability to "time travel" and quickly "return" one day to look for key clues in your life.
"once time goes by, you can never get it back."
**Cherish time, this is the most common people should seize the opportunity to make a comeback.**
# TimeTrack, use it first
If you use TimeTrack, for the first time, modify the default settings first:
1. More-Settings-when starting a new activity-pause an ongoing activity and start a new activity
2. The main timer is changed to "Total time" (otherwise the display will be cleared after the time is paused)
3. Open "time interval conflict reminder" (TimeTrack Android is not available)
4. Date format 2019-05-13, time format 22:31
5. Export data format: yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss
6. The first day at the beginning of the time is set to "Monday"
7. Turn on Show seconds
8. Minimum activity duration-not set
9. Modify the "time statistics method" to "take into account the cross time of activities".
> Note: if the iOS account logs out, all settings will be cleared, and login again needs to be reset.
Then create a new goal called "I am still playing with my phone" on the target page, set the activity to include "entertainment", reach the type selection "no more than the set time", and set the time to 2 hours a day.
Then go back to the main page, the rule is, limit you to use only "entertainment", "work" and "other" activities, work records, mobile phone, movies, games and other sleeping, walking and washing time, use "other" records for those who do not belong to "work" and "entertainment", and then write down what you have done in the notes column. The rule is to limit your use of "entertainment", "work" and "other" activities, work, work and other activities.
I asked Q to perform these operations before, and after he tried it for 2-3 days, he gave me feedback:
"Oh, Tu, your method is very useful. I really spend a lot less time playing with my mobile phone. I have only exceeded the standard for" entertainment "once in these three days. Every time I turn on the "entertainment" time, when I see the countdown on this "secondary timer", I dare not misuse it. I feel like I am always reminding me that my entertainment time is running out. I often want to brush my phone when I have nothing to do. Forget it. I still hold back. "
I am also very happy to help Q achieve his goal, and ask him how he still feels in the process of using it.
He thought about it and summed up these three points:
1. You can see the target visually and remind me not to time out at any time.
2. You have to click every time to record it. It's a little troublesome.
3. When you are busy, you will still forget to take notes.
The first item shows that Q have mastered the most essential "goal" function of TimeTrack from the first time.
The "secondary timer" we set up before, including a separate "goals" function page, is to visualize our goals, remind ourselves to pay attention to time consumption, and create a warning line not only in mind, but also visually. Warn yourself not to cross the line.
Second, the operation is troublesome, but to a certain extent, it can improve efficiency, such as using desktop widgets without unlocking, clicking directly on a negative screen, and combining advanced operations such as iOS shortcuts or Android Tasker,. In the future, it will be said that clicking on this action is inevitable for the time being.
The third is the "hindrance" that causes many students to give up halfway. The key is that you haven't received enough positive feedback and haven't formed the habit yet.
Then how can you form a habit? I shared my practice with Q.
I divide the habit into three stages:
* **Phase I ——Hold on**
This stage depends entirely on willpower, and there must be immediate positive feedback or gamification stimulation. For example, the "secondary timer" we mentioned is instant feedback, and the gamification stimulus is the bar chart and color of the software. You look at the bar chart is all green, the higher the success rate, the more you will have a sense of achievement, of course, you do not want to undermine this achievement.
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* **The second stage-inertia**
After holding on for a period of time, you have accumulated a lot of historical data, at this time your records no longer need to "stick", daily records seem to be accustomed to daily classes, and you don't want the continuity of time to break off. you've been pushed away by muscle memory.
* **The third stage-meaning**
Give great meaning to your actions, which is your self-drive to do anything, and it is also a kind of idealism.
For example, I hope to promote time recording through hands-on practice, so that more people can acquire this skill and change themselves through recording. I want to use TimeTrack to build a data museum where time and event data can be used for future generations to refer to and pass on experience.
> My way ahead's a long,long one,oh! I'll seek my beauty high and low.
Amuse oneself.Not everyone will come to the "meaning" stage, as long as they can solve practical problems.
If you really can't hold on, think about your original intention of keeping a time record, what you want to accomplish through time recording, if the goal has been achieved, let it go; if not, but find a more suitable way, you can leave at any time.
But don't give up because of trivial problems after holding on for a long time. For example, do not know how to do the recorded data, do not know how to analyze the data, do not know what the use of recording and so on. On the side, writing this book is to help you solve these small problems.
> Quitting early is the root of all failure.
>
> ——《暗时间》
On the way to developing habits, I have heard that the most common reasons for giving up are:
"one day I forgot to remember, but I didn't know how to fix it. I put it off and gave up."
If you have a lot of time to forget to remember, and the act of recording puts a huge psychological burden on you, **don't make up for it, forget it**.
The important thing is not to record more, but to walk through more PDCA cycles and "plan-execute-check-act".
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Just recording, there is no change, that is, of course, to do useless work, it is better to use the recording time to relax the mood.
Adhere to "record-classify-analyze-change" and find your own positive feedback as soon as possible.
Just like Q completed the "I am still playing with the phone" goal limit, really realize the benefits of time recording, stick to it, it is not difficult at all.
Once you know how to record time with TimeTrack, it's time to try the core functions of TimeTrack.
# Five core functions of TimeTrack
The core functions of TimeTrack have been introduced in 《一篇文章讲清楚TimeTrack》. Some pictures and details are added in this section.
I think TimeTrack has these five core functions:
* Start / stop recording time (basic).
* Target function (target management / cordon).
* The system comes with its own view (visualization).
* Data export (Excel analysis).
* Widget (Quick Action)
How can we use these functions during the day?
Open TimeTrack, and click the activity button on the home page, and the software begins to record the time of the activity.
For example, if I start to write an article, click on the "write" icon, edit the typesetting after writing, and click on the "typesetting" activity. The "writing" that was in progress will be automatically paused (to do more-set-start the activity before the pause), and the timer will be switched to "typesetting".
This is the most basic way to use TimeTrack, which helps me record the time I spend on different types of activities I set up.
When the typesetting is finished and ready to go to work, click on the "commuting" activity and switch the timing.
Because today Friday, I was in a particularly good mood when I went all the way to see the scenery, but I suddenly remembered, Oh, by the way, my commuting time goal this week seems to be exceeding the limit.
So I opened the goals tab (to do more-set-Show goals first) and took a look at the amount of time used for commuting.
That was close! There are still 20 minutes to go before the limit is exceeded. No, I have to do something else to replace the "commuting" time on the commute.
Listen to the book. I remember that I didn't finish a book called "non-violent Communication" at the Fanden Book Club.
So I opened App, and clicked "read" in TimeTrack, successfully switching time from "commuting" to "reading".
This is the second core feature of TimeTrack, "visualizing the amount of time used by different activity items through the target function."
Arrived at the company, busy all morning, after lunch, took a look at all the time "goal", very satisfied, because there is no excessive dosage (no red).
I was not very sleepy at noon, thinking that it happened to be the beginning of the month, so I had to make a good analysis of my time usage last month. After all, time has passed so long, it is more accurate to look at the data than to feel it.
Before I was ready to export data to Excel, I took a look at TimeTrack's default activity consumption bar chart.
Click on the target page to enter "commuting". Unexpectedly, the commuting time has reached the standard for 5 consecutive weeks, with a completion rate of 90% (green standard, red exceeding standard)!
Then go to the category page, click "Communication" to enter the details.
I have spent 42 hours on "communication" in the last 30 days, an average of one and a half hours a day. I don't seem to remember what I've been talking to. It's time to improve my social quality.
This is the third core function of TimeTrack, using students who are not used to exporting data to Excel for analysis, "it is also a kind of instant feedback to make yourself aware of the approximate time trend through built-in charts."
Finally, I came to the data export page ("more-report-choose last month-upper right corner to export the report-CSV"). After opening the data with Excel, I got a monthly trend chart and found that my "gain time" had increased from 33% in January to 42%, an increase of nearly 10 percentage points!
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You have made great progress. I feel that life has reached its peak.
Then I found that last week's exercise time dropped from 4% to 0.7%. I worked too much overtime and didn't want to exercise. I said, why am I in a trance recently? I haven't played ball for a long time. When do I ask my buddies to play ball?
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No, I decided that to resume daily exercise this month, the body is the capital of the pursuit.
This is the fourth core function of TimeTrack, "by exporting data to Excel advanced analysis, observe the flow of time from a global point of view, find problems, and stimulate yourself to correct bad behavior." time is fair, more on one side, less on the other.
So now, I have a new goal, the first thing this month is to increase the "exercise" time!
Save all the data, turn off Excel, don't go to work, lie in a chair and close your eyes.
When I started working in the afternoon, I picked up my phone and was ready to switch from "rest" time to "work" time. The leader happened to pass by me, and I thought to myself, I wouldn't let my boss think that I was always playing with my cell phone during working hours, right? I'm a good employee who doesn't exercise after working overtime every day.
I thought, is there any way to "quickly switch activity categories without entering the software?"
Try adding new widgets (widgets) on a negative screen. Click Edit to add TimeTrack, to finish.
Expand the TimeTrack list so that you can right slide the screen switch time without unlocking the phone.
> If you want to operate completely with a computer instead of a mobile phone, you can use the [MuMu Android simulator](https://shijian.tujunjie.com/ch03/ch03.26).
This is the fifth core function of TimeTrack, "add widgets and quickly switch time categories."
The above is an example of the use of TimeTrack core features during the day.
As long as you master these five core functions, it will be much easier to use the software.
At this point, some ones will say, "Tu, you have overlooked a very serious problem!"
You said, "use Excel to open the data after a meal operation."
What is an operation? How can we make a chart like yours!
Don't worry. I'll explain the data mapping in detail in Chapter 4. Now let's make good use of the system view of the software.
For example, TimeTrack's own column chart, stacking chart, and so on, under what circumstances are they used?
# Three data views included with TimeTrack
You can't force all users to export data to Excel customized analysis, so the data view that comes with TimeTrack provides basic visualization.
There are three main types of charts built into TimeTrack:
* **Pie chart**
Operation: historical activities tab-middle down arrow-select pie chart and time period.
You can see the proportion of various activities.
* **Column chart**
Operation: historical activity tab-middle down arrow-Select stacked bar chart (item 4) and time period.
You can view the distribution of activities per hour over a time period, but only the representative color of each activity (item 3 with event name and comments, calendar view, but the mobile side looks too crowded and not commonly used).
Action: historical activity tab-middle down arrow-Select percentage stacked bar chart (item 5) and "week" time period.
You can see the time flow in the same period of the week.
In addition to the Historical activities tab, the categories and goals tabs also have column charts.
Go to the Category tab and select an activity to view the histogram distribution of the activity for the last 30 days and show the average time spent on each and every day of the activity.
Go to the goals tab and select a target activity to show the average time spent per week in the last 10 weeks (my goal is in "weeks"), including the success rate of the goal, how many times the target has been met, and so on.
The bar chart in the goal will also contain colors, with the standard items showing green and the exceeding items showing red. This is what we called "instant feedback". **When your activity is green, you will want to keep it forever without destroying the green.**
* **Calendar view**
You can also select Calendar View, which is strictly speaking a stacked column chart, which represents the colors of different activities to fill into the column chart.
What I often use recently is "historical details", which is in tabular form.
All "stopped" activities are stored here. Click to enter the corresponding activity details, and you can re-enable or edit notes, tags, etc.
> Restart the activity: on the history list page, click Edit, change the "end state" of the activity to "paused state" or "in progress" state, and then save, the activity will return to the activity page.
In addition, in aTimeLogger (Android), a unique "**advanced statistics**" function will be enabled after donation.
Can be divided into different groups to display the length of time and proportion of, TimeTrack (iOS) can be replaced by pie chart.
If you want more custom charts, such as line charts, scatter charts, and so on, you will have to export the data to Excel.
In fact, the charts that come with the software can already meet the needs of most users, and the most question I have collected is not how to analyze the charts or back-end data, but "how to classify activity items".
In the next section, I'll tell you how I spent three months polishing and appearing in this set of classification principles.
# Maintain only up to 30 activity classifications
Classifications think one step at a time because you don't have the ability to clarify all classifications by memory and have to go through several hesitations and tangles.
You will encounter many problems, such as:
* How many categories are appropriate?
* Which classification is better?
* What about the hierarchy of classification correspondences?
* Categories A and B seem to be similar, what's the trade-off?
* Do two things at the same time, with which category?
The first step in my counseling is to ask the participants themselves what actions they would produce in different scenarios, looking for categories:
1. Your action on the day
2. Your weekend action
3. Your big holiday move
4. Your actions for New Year's
If you're not too big on categorization, just think about what you do during the workday.
In chronological order, it might be:
> Get up → wash up → go to the toilet → get dressed → shave (make up) → commute → read → work → order takeaway → eat lunch → chat → play mobile phone → study → rest → work → send and receive delivery → commute → eat → watch TV → buy snacks → walk downstairs → wash clothes → shower → sleep.......
That way most of your day's action is found out.
For more and more wholeness, think again about what you do on weekends, holidays, and add:
> Shopping, grocery shopping, cooking, partying, driving, medical examination, government business, cleaning, household chores.......
Some actions you may not be able to notice just by imagination, only when you really meet will you know, it's okay, take your time, let's focus first.
Here's a rule you need to set for yourself first:
> Only a maximum of 30 activity categories will be retained.
Additional categories are merged or placed in the activity "Other" with a note.
Why limit the number of categories in the first place?
Because a lot of participants hear about looking for categories from life, as if it's a competition for who finds more activities, and the last 50 out of 100 categories are there.
For example:
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Counting all the activities in the group, it's close to 100! Can it be divided like this? OK, but **not recommended**, especially not for newcomers.
With more than 100 activity categories, you have to think about which activity to choose once before you do something, and it's a hassle to find it once you've figured it out.
So at first, please be strict:
> Maintain only up to 30 activity classifications
After limiting the number of categories, there is often a question during the implementation process:
> "Is it necessary to record fine print activity items?"
For example, drinking water, going to the bathroom, closing your eyes and nourishing your mind, this fragment of time that may not last more than 3 minutes, is it necessary to click on the record on the software alone again?
My personal advice is to combine frequent fractions of time.
For example, we may take a break and then go to the toilet, and then come back and take a break, at which time the normal operation should be "rest - toilet - rest", but I will record this time as "rest" and the next time the "rest - toilet - rest" behavior occurs, I will record it as "toilet". In this way, we have complemented the time of the two activity items, and this fine-grained complementary recording, with little difference in time consumption, has little impact on the results of our analysis of the derived data.
If you don't want to neglect recording fine-grained time, try this method of packing.
Of course, if you don't even think a merger is necessary, then just ignore it.
But before you selectively ignore it, it is recommended that you carefully observe your time spent in small pieces, such as resting for 5 minutes at a time, going to the bathroom for only 2 minutes, being out of order for 5 minutes, etc. Small errors accumulate in the final data can be a big problem.
You get a "baseline value" by looking at them (about 1 week), so that even if there is no data at the time of your analysis, you can make up the baseline value, even if it is a compromise between speed and accuracy.
After setting the rule of "only keep up to 30 activity categories", many students still feel that the categories are not enough, so I would suggest to write more detailed categories in the notes column.
If you find it cumbersome to fill in the notes manually every time, there are two shortcuts:
* voice recording
Using the input method's voice input function, you can not only record, but also turn into a diary in seconds.
* Input method shortcut phrase
Take Sogou input method as an example, open Properties - Advanced - Custom phrase settings - Add new definition.
You can set the shortcut phrase "tag:son" to pop up when typing "ez" to tag the character, and this alternative to typing can greatly improve your typing efficiency.
If you can make use of the notes area, you will find that the categories record our time trajectory and the notes area is our life trajectory.
After combing through all the activities, we also need to categorize them, dividing the same activities together according to certain attributes.
So, what are the divided dimensions?
# 5 common ways to categorize time
When we analyze activities, we do not directly analyze 30 individual activities, but often look at the proportion of a large category first.
This means that you need to distinguish between 30 different activities in some sort of categorization, and I present 5 common categorization methods.
* (i) Classifications of a transactional nature
Transactional classification focuses on describing the activity itself, subordinated to the size of the scope of things. For example, this classification chart.
The subordinate relationship is that "washing" and "brushing" are both "washing" and "cleaning", while "washing" and "cleaning" are both "daily life".
If we break it down, "wash your face" is a three-level classification, "wash and rinse" is a two-level classification, and "daily life" is a one-level classification, because using all three-level classifications will increase the number of classifications significantly, and using all one-level classifications is too few and cannot achieve the purpose of tracking, so we will say that we will keep 30 two-level classifications after compromise.
S1-S7 in the figure above represents the first level classification of activity, and the earning, recording, and commuting represent the sub-level classifications.
After collation, their correspondence is as follows:
My current TimeTrack interface is categorized by transactional, and is amended once a year to add and subtract activities based on length of time spent.
Using this categorization, the complete principle is.
1. <7 for level 1 and <30 for sublevel
2. Classification levels are subordinate and independent of each other, completely exhaustive
3. Frequent switching and constant time, leaving only large activity categories, details written in notes
4. Throw all the less time-consuming little categories into "other."
If you look at it more closely, you may wonder if "sleep" can be subordinated to "daily life", but why create a separate level of classification?
Because of the second principle, "frequent switching and constant time, only the category of large activities", sleep time is basically a constant 8 hours, such a constant time, if classified in the "daily life" together with the analysis, some changes will be overlooked because the relative changes are not obvious.
There are so many things to do in a day's work, why leave only one category of "work"? Because "work" needs to be switched frequently, e.g. work consists of "writing reports, meeting, greeting clients", etc., work scenes tend to have few separate large blocks of time and your work is often interrupted.
If you get interrupted once and switch once, it's too costly, so I tend to just record the "work", get interrupted halfway through, and just throw in a note about what you did.
Finally, such small activities as "express delivery" and "medical examination" may take less than five hours a year together, there is no need to create a separate category in the interface, so that you can keep in mind every day, just replace them with "other" activity items with notes.
It's okay to use this "transactional classification + notes on details + 'other'" to keep the classification to 30, why 30?
> Because the phone is just within one screen, avoiding the drop down to find the activity saves effort!
* (ii) Profit and loss classification
Profit and loss classification is a distinction made in terms of the "good and bad of time".
For example, we can classify "entertainment" and "games" as "damage events", "writing" and "reading" as "time", and "washing" and "travel" as "neutral time".
For example, I used to classify "sleep" under "damage time", and felt guilty when I slept longer, and tried to improve my efficiency by compressing my sleep time, but it turned out to be a bad idea, so I reclassified "sleep" to "neutral time", and will be much more comfortable when I enable it again in the future.
While TimeTrack's "job" is to keep track of time, the simple classification of profit and loss can sometimes lead you into a "single indicator trap" because even with "entertainment," there's good entertainment and bad entertainment and you can't generalize.
The most important thing is that we can't beat the people who play the game to death with a stick, saying that playing the game is degenerate is not doing the right thing, playing the game can also learn knowledge, such as LOL to learn teamwork, martial arts to learn human body acupuncture points map, astrology tactics and so on, but these acts are relatively low output.
For example, I analyze the "gains" from watching movies during "entertainment" time as follows.
The "1" mark on the back of the film or television drama that generates positive sentiment was found to be a success, accounting for 32.5 per cent of all film or television drama.
By the same token, we can use this method to analyze the rate of return on all behaviors during "entertainment" time.
For example, "entertainment" time consists of movies and dramas, playing mobile phones and games. I found the yields to be in order of high to low: telenovela > play games > play mobile. So what's our first priority? Of course, you have to find a way to control yourself to play mobile phones, after all, it is "poor to poor", not only does it hurt the time, but also the yield is particularly low, that is to say, the time spent playing mobile phones is like water, not even a splash.
* (iii) Categorization of scenarios
We can also categorize the time according to different scenarios, such as time at home, time on the road, time at work.
Find the most efficient scenario for yourself by analyzing the distribution of activity items for different scenarios.
* (iv) Categorization of priorities
We often use the four-quadrant model for prioritization, then we can also categorize according to the priorities of important and urgent, important but not urgent, not important but urgent, not important and not urgent.
Increase their own sustainability by analyzing the amount of time spent in these four quadrant types each day, proactively increasing the proportion of "not urgent but important" events and proactively decreasing the proportion of "neither important nor urgent" events.
(v) Role categorization
There is also an implied classification when we enable any one activity item, and that is, did you do it independently, or was it done by multiple people? For example, the same is true of "work", where the role may be just "me" or "me and my colleagues", or "me and my friends".
You can find out how much you're paying attention to different roles by using different character markers, such as whether you're spending more time as a "staff" or as a "child".
From these five classifications we can find that some classifications correspond to activities one by one, while another classifications and activities are readily variable. For example, the "wash" of the transactional classification is fixedly subordinate to "daily life", while the priority classification "work" can be either "important and urgent" or "not important but urgent".
I myself in the TimeTrack interface with "S\*" mark the transactional classification, in Excel with the vlookup function to match the increase in the "profit and loss classification", these two classifications and activities are long-term fixed, such as "entertainment" subordinate to "entertainment and leisure", and at the same time is "damage time".
The other three classifications are variable, such as when "work" is enabled, I may be involved in more than one role, and the work at hand may be "important and urgent", or I may be "on my way" to complete the work.
This variable classification can be implemented using TimeTrack's built-in "tags" function.
When you open the activity, write a label in the "tab bar", put a different label, and when you export the data we will see an extra column of label data in the table.
The more granular your categorization of different activities, the more content you can dig deeper into through Excel analysis at a later stage, but you'll need to weigh the input of setting up the categorization and labeling up front and pick the one that works best for you.
I currently use transactional and profit-and-loss categorization and do not use the tagging feature.
Some students also found that I use Excel to match and replace the way to add categories, why not directly use TimeTrack's own "group" function?
Operation: In the category tab - "+" in the upper right corner - turn on the "Groups" switch - set the group name, such as "Entertainment and Leisure".
Then go to the newly created group and click on the "+" sign of the item to add all the activities that belong under "Recreation".
Once completed, you can see all the time trends in the last 30 days of activity in the bar chart area.
When the Groups feature is enabled, the Activity tab screen will show only the first level of classification and then the number of subclasses included in the top right corner.
If you need to start recording sub items, you need to click twice to reach the target activity, which increases the recording cost. If you want to use the group function at the same time, but all the activity items are not collapsed, you can open it in "More - Settings - Activity tab group".
Want to re-classify a group you've already classified under another group? To edit, just move to the top level.
Then why don't I use "groups"? Because you cannot sort by individual activities after setting "Groups".
For example**:**
Now I set AB two groups, the activities within the group are abc and de, I open the "activity tag group" function, TimeTrack activity page shows all subclass activities, but when I adjust the activity sorting in the category page, I find that the abc under group A can't break the limit of A, that is, I hope the sorting of the interface is cdeab result doesn't work, because d belongs to group B, so the sorting is across groups.
In practice, I think "layout by frequency" is more important than "group statistics", and I can use "S\*" instead of group function, so I won't use group function.
After your activity categorization and time categorization are resolved, you may have this question during the actual switching of activities.
> When I do several things at the same time, how do I keep track at this point?
In the next section, tell you about the 3 solutions I recommend.
# How to time multiple activities simultaneously
If I take the subway home from work and I click on "Commute", but I want to read a book, should I continue to record "Commute" time or switch to "Read" time? Can we keep track of both times together?
To remember together, select "Continue ongoing activities and start new activities" when setting up and starting a new activity. This way, when you newly enable an activity, the old one won't pause and will continue to clock.
But **this method is not recommended**! Because when you record multiple activities at the same time, you end up with more than 24 hours of time data in a day, and this baseline value changes, there is no way to guarantee equality of time.
We proactively avoid timeouts, but you may also find time fluctuations after exporting the data.
> Why is it that the 1 day shown in the exported data is sometimes not 24 hours？
It's because time is timed across days for "sleep". If you go to bed at 1:00am and get up at 8:00am every day, then the time of the day is 24 hours, but if you go to bed at 22:00 that day and get up at 6:00 the next day, although they are both 7 hours, but because the second workday spans days, your time of the day will be 2 hours more (22:00-00:00), which is 26 hours, and the time of the next day will be 2 hours less, becoming 22 hours.
This can be very upsetting to some of the little mates, as the 24 hour a day rule is broken.
The first thing I thought about was to artificially fix it by "changing my routine", forcing myself to go to bed on time at zero, or splitting up the data in the export, but then I realized that it wasn't necessary, and that it would be putting the cart before the horse if someone needed to satisfy the data.
In fact, looking at the time lengthening period, 24 hours is definitely constant, because 2 hours more the day before and 2 hours less the day after, the lengthening period analysis, the data will have little effect. That's something that people can care less about.
If you find it unbearable, you can modify the software's **daily start time**.
By the time you set the start time, the software ends the day.
For example, if the normal time is 00:00, but you are used to going to bed at 22:00, you can set the start time of the day to "22:00".
When I use TimeTrack for timing, I must ensure that "only one activity is recorded at the same time, <24 hours per day (23:59)".
So back to the first question, the first thing we have to rule out is to record both "commuting" and "reading", so what do we choose between the two?
I provide three ways of reference.
**1.Gain time priority (and vice versa)**
It's not good to have a long "commute", but "reading" is a good habit, and I would prefer to keep track of "good times" relatively speaking.
**2.Efficiency values take precedence**
What is an "efficiency value", which is no longer a single indicator, but a ratio .
Again, when I "read" during my "commute", I record it as "commute", but note "#read" in the comments field so that when I export the data to Excel, I can filter out the time I spent reading during my commute and the time I spent purely commuting, and divide the two to get the efficiency value (utilization rate) of my "commute" activity.
**3.Purpose oriented**
Let's say I go shopping, do I record "travel" or "shopping"? Since my purpose is to "shop" and not "travel", I record the time as "shopping".
Here comes a little trick for writing notes, called "Marking with symbols".
For example, when I record "#Reading" in the notes section of my "Commute" time, this "#" mark helps me to locate the "presence of an activity that can calculate an efficiency value" directly in my Excel analysis.
For example, I only have one category "Entertainment", which is used to record TV shows, play games, and swipe phones. You can also put a symbol in front of one of the notes, and I'll put an "@" symbol in front of all the movies, and I'll be able to filter which ones I've seen in Excel right away.
In addition to the question of "how to do multiple activities at the same time in a timely manner", you may find that early on "what to remember" also becomes a tangle.
For example, under which category should a new "Banking" be recorded?
We need an "Activity Definition Table" to clarify which activities are included under each activity, so that everything can be put into the correct category.
So in the next section, let's see how this "Activity Definition Table" works.
# Take 1 month to polish your categories and definitions
During the process of defining the category definition, especially in the first 1 to 3 months, the category adjustments will be very frequent, as you are constantly adjusting your prioritization based on your historical data, including the layout of the icons.
In the stage of frequently adjusting the categories, you will inevitably encounter a situation where you keep adding and subtracting categories and the original data will break, that is, if you set "Bath" and "Brush" in the beginning, but when you find that it is not necessary to separate bathing and brushing teeth, so you unify bathing and brushing teeth into one category of "Rinse", you need to file the original "Bath" and "Brush" and then create a new "Rinse" activity.
> Archiving means that the data is not used in the future, the software front-end is no longer displayed, but the data remains in the software, then we can export the data to Excel to manually merge them.
Select in TimeTrack, More - Report - Select All Time - Export CSV, open in Excel and filter the categories you need to merge (e.g. "Bath" and "Brush"), select Rename to "Wash".
After a few months, pretty much all of your classifications at this stage are fixed, and as long as there are no new breakthroughs in your life, such as getting married and having children, etc., the classifications won't change much.
At this point you can create an "Activity Definition Table" that specifies all the actions included under the categories, avoiding the hassle of switching. Let's say you suddenly get a directive saying, "Put together a programme of activities for me at once", what exactly is that programme? How is the scheme written? It all requires you to think again, and it takes time to react, but if you get a directive that says, "Turn off the power to the drinking fountain," it's a clear action, and you know what to do immediately, without thinking.
Most of the activities contain many actions, such as "work" may include "meeting", "write a plan", "field" and so on, so if you can clear which specific actions are included in each activity, when you need to switch the activity time will be fast and accurate, no need to think, improve efficiency.
With a better memory than a bad pen, I took the time to put together a "definition of activity table", as follows：
Whenever I run into a situation where I don't know how to classify, I look at the definitions in the table, classify them normally if they already exist, think about where they should fit, and then fix the definition table.
The definition table records what actions (characteristics) each classification contains, in addition to profit and loss markers and time allocation.
When your categories are fixed, you need to set a "time goal" for yourself, assuming 168 hours per week in "weeks", how will you allocate them, which activities have upper limits and which have lower limits?
From my observations, I think the time distribution I aspire to is this:
Also, when setting time goals, you need to know "**What does each target percentage really represent?**"
Represents the contents of the "Remarks" column of my definition table.
Assuming we follow the desired time allocation and ensure that recreation and leisure time does not account for more than 8% of the week, this means that "with 168 hours in a week, you only have 13.4 hours to spend on recreation and rest, less than 2 hours per day on average." Then do the split of those 2 hours into 30 minutes a day to rest, 30 minutes to play with your phone, and 1 hour to watch video, which is the actual meaning behind each percentage you set.
That said, I'm not asking you to set your "time goal" immediately as you would like it to be allocated.
Never, especially not a novice!
Everyone's pace of life is different, and the ideal target optimization is to "**float around 30% of historical data".**
Let's say you previously had 30 hours of entertainment per week at 18%, which ideally would also be reduced to 12.5 hours per week at most. If you really follow the 8% goal, which is to have your recreational time immediately drop from an average of 4.2 hours per day to an average of 2 hours per day, how about weekdays, how about weekends? Can you guarantee self-discipline to the point where it only takes 2 hours?
The most likely scenario is that you hold out for a week, then feel that you can't go on, start "retaliatory consumption", entertainment time out of control, bounce back to the original level, if this is the case, not only can not complete the goal, but also hit your self-confidence.
Of course, if you want to be tough, you're a man!
There is an old saying, "Take the method above, and get only the middle; take the method middle, and get only the below."
The implication of this statement is that if we set a high standard, we may end up with only a medium standard, and if we set a medium standard, we may end up with only a low standard.
"Take the method above, and get only the middle" is a perfect illustration of the change that Rigid brought to me.
Initially my "fun" time was 10%, and after setting a 6% target limit, whenever I saw a red alert for fun time on the target page, I had to tell myself I couldn't spend any more fun time.
But time is constant, if you leave it empty for a period of time, you can't flow to "entertainment", you can only control it to flow elsewhere, preferably to gain time, and then I choose "reading" as a replacement for "entertainment" in all gain time.
This shift has led me to increase my reading time by 40% a year, which means that when I set a strict standard for my "recreational" time, when I'm nearing my goal, I start to think about what time is available to fill that gap.
Now "reading" is slowly becoming my entertainment, and I'm limited in my entertainment time, but I don't want to do something too distracting, such as "writing", "planning", etc. When I'm doing an activity, I turn on "reading".
"I never thought that reading would become my entertainment time.
If you haven't had confrontational success before, don't think about it once, let's be honest and go step by step, I don't want you to be under too much pressure.
# Tips for color, naming and layout of categories
Careful ones may have some questions about this classification chart, such as：
1. Why is it that my icon is only blue and yours is red, yellow and blue-grey?
2. Why do I have an "S\*" in front of every event name?
3. Why is your "work" on the right and not elsewhere?
These tips can be refined and optimized on your own once you've determined your classification.
First, the color of the icon.
Different colors are moody, such as life's red lights, red stops; yellow warnings; green passes.
Other moods of different colors we can refer to.
> Black: a symbol of prestige, professionalism and taste.
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> Gray: symbolizes sincerity, composure, and deliberation.
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> White: symbolizes purity, holiness, goodness, trust and openness.
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> Red: symbolizes passion, sexiness, and confidence.
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> Pink: symbolizes tenderness, sweetness, romance, and no pressure.
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> Orange: symbolizes friendliness, candor, cheerfulness, and health.
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> Yellow: confident, smart, hopeful, unstable.
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> Green: brightness, energy, security.
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> Blue: conservative, rational, moderate and pragmatic.
So you'll see that my "Entertainment" is damage time, so I set it to red, which means it's a bad time item, and when I click on it, the visuals will alert me first; and "Organize" is my thinking time, so I used blue, which means rational.
In addition to adjusting the icon colors yourself, TimeTrack's Pro account allows you to use more extended colorful icons.
On the Category tab, check Activity, click Edit, and select the icon.
On the left is the free version of the icon library and on the right is the paid version. Students who like aesthetics can toss it around.
By the same token, we can extend the concept of "emotion" to the naming of activity items.
Conventional naming, such as "work", "rest", "chores", etc., but we can use a different naming method from the "mood" point of view, which creates the first stimulus when we click on the active item time.
For example, change the naming of "work" to "make more money", then at the beginning of the time, the simple "start work" in the mind may become "for some kind of happy life and work hard to make money", or change the "release" to "don't go to the toilet to play mobile phone", after this "cautionary nomenclature" processing, it gives a certain meaning to the activity item, emotional more resonance.
The downside, of course, is that the definition of the activity may be blurred because of the intention to convey it, and this is something for everyone to choose from.
As to why I still have an "S" marker before each of my names, because I use S instead of groups, S1-S7 corresponds to a first-level classification.
As shown in the figure:
This allows me to batch replace "S\*" with a first level classification when I export data to Excel.
Why use S and not other characters? Because S is fat and lean, it takes up less space at the nomenclature and is not invisible (W).
Finally, on to the layout of activity items.
I've arranged them in right-hand click frequencies, with the icon used at the highest frequencies set in the lower right-hand corner, the lower the frequency the more outgoing.
The frequencies are: green>beige>orange>brown in descending order.
The frequency of use can be judged according to the number of clicks you export the history of the activity, Excel open the export data using pivot table - select all detailed data - insert pivot table - drag the type of activity to the "row" - and then drag the type of activity to the "value", you can get all the activity in all the time period of the number of clicks, the higher the value, the more clicks on behalf of you, put into your hands the green area (habit of the left-handed students in the opposite direction, the same principle).
To adjust the order of activities in the Category tab, click on the sort symbol in the upper right corner, then hold down the horizontal line to the right of the icon and drag the order.
In TimeTrack iOS (Pro) you can adjust the number of active icons displayed, in More - Settings, as shown.
The default is 4 icons per line, you can set up to 6 icons per line, which can solve the problem of displaying the number of icons on one screen.
If you're new to this, you don't have to pay too much attention to these details while the classification is still in the high-frequency update stage, and it's not too late to set it up when you've got the software down.
At the end of this chapter, we'll introduce you to 2 tools to help you improve your efficiency.
# Use these 2 automatic recording software to assist in recording
In the beginning, trivial logging operations are costly, so I would suggest a "log-only" focus to track blocks of time that need improvement.
But if you still want to try full time recording, then I recommend 2 tools for mobile and computer side respectively.
> Mobile: App Timer 2 (Android)/screen usage time (iOS 12)
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> Computer: RescueTime/ManicTime
Why is it still possible to use automatic recording software to assist? Because I have observed that most of the "fragmented time" often arises from the two chunks of time, "entertainment" and "work", which correspond to scenarios that are mostly mobile entertainment and computer office.
So can we find a tool to automatically record time on our mobile phones and computers to help us with the recording?
Of course you can.
Android uses "App Timer 2" or "24pi" for mobile phones, shown as "App Timer 2".
iOS (iOS 12 and above) with its own "screen time".
For PC, you can use "RescueTime" and Windows can also select "ManicTime".
Armed to the teeth using manual plus automatic recording.
You'll have all the basics of TimeTrack, and in the next chapter, we'll introduce you to some of the more advanced ways to play with TimeTrack!
# Chapter 3: Advanced skills
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
The [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/) and [aTimeLogger](http://www.atimelogger.com/) software used in this paper are independently developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny.
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# System function - time calibration, automatic correction of associated data
During the recording process, we may not be able to record in real time for various reasons, forget or timeout is often, how to quickly make up or correct the original time data?
First, open the "Time Zone Conflict Reminder" in the settings, so that when the time of two activities overlap, the system will automatically alert and prompt whether to modify, as shown in the figure.
The tip here is to "change the start time of the new event instead of the end time of the old event" when the overlap occurs.
For example, you are "working", but suddenly a stomach ache, want to go to the "toilet", and so you go to the toilet before you think up no time, when the next TimeTrack also shows "work", this time you click "toilet", and then estimate the time to go to the toilet, such as 10 minutes, and then enter the "toilet" activity, the toilet start time back 10 minutes, click save, the system will remind you that now the "toilet" and "work" time overlap, whether to amend, and then you choose to modify the working time to reduce the 10 minutes option (the long one) can be.
Conversely, if you modify the end time of the job first, then modify the start time of the toilet you operate one more time.
# System function - location, with scene markers
In the section "5 common ways of classifying time", we mentioned "scene classification".
In TimeTrack (aTimeLogger does not have this feature) the user can go to the active item, select the location, and when exporting the report, there is not only time data, but also location tagging of all time data, adding a dimension of scenario analysis.
In more - location, the top right corner "+" new, enter the location name, click to enter, the optional map has Apple map and Baidu map, I choose Apple map by default, because Apple map has current coordinates and positioning coordinates display, long press the purple positioning marker can be manually corrected, Baidu map does not have the current location, and manually set the coordinates when save invalid.
Fill in the name of the location, such as "home", "office".
Add a location to the activity item, as shown in the figure.
The current disadvantage is that the active item can not be removed after setting the position, and the data export CSV with the position marker is not displayed, can only look at the built-in chart in more - position, it is not recommended.
# System function - archive, put away the unused categories
For example, I actively update TimeTrack's categories once a year and then annotate the category changes in the active definitions table to make it easier to trace the category changes.
For activities that no longer require a separate category we can use the "Archive" function to hide data from the software category.
Archived activity items are not displayed again, but the original data of the activity is not deleted.
As shown in the figure:
Activity Category Page - Click on Activity and select Archive.
After archiving the activity page will have an additional "Archive" folder, as shown in the figure:
Then the icon on the activity page disappears.
The exported CSV data file, the archived data still exists, as shown in the figure:
# System function - tomato clock, focus on goal achievement
The Tomato Bell is a TimeTrack Pro account feature.
After setting - tomato clock, turn on the tomato clock function, then set which activity is needed to associate the tomato clock, how long each tomato is, how many tomatoes per day, etc. When the setting is complete and the activity with the tomato clock starts, the system will indicate whether it is normal timing mode or tomato clock timing.
Ordinary timing:
Tomato bell timing:
It is a characteristic of tomato clocks that they must be completed before they are counted, for example 1 tomato clock for 25 minutes, if you quit the tomato clock before the 25 minutes are up, then you cannot start recording the overlay data again next time. This forces the user to focus on accomplishing the goal.
I had rarely used a tomato clock before and felt it didn't do much for me, 25 minutes for things I liked to do wasn't enough, 1 minute for things I didn't like to touch, and I was confident that long periods of concentration were not a problem. But there is always an intermediate situation - "something you don't like, but have to do" - and this is the right situation for a tomato clock. When this happens, 25 minutes a tomato, rest immediately when the point is reached, not long after, to restore the mood and promote the achievement of the goal. Classmates who like it can try it.
I'm still using Siri for iOS more often than not, and it's easy to shout "Siri, 25 minutes countdown".
If you prefer to use a physical one, a direct Taobao tomato clock would be nice.
# System function - countdown to prevent time wastage
The countdown is TimeTrack's Pro account feature.
Its interface is a bit like a tomato clock, but less obligatory, in the more - set - countdown, select on.
When you set the activity category to use the countdown, you will be prompted to use the countdown when you turn on the corresponding activity.
The most important role of the countdown is to prevent yourself from wasting time on a particular activity.
For example, I have a "planning" activity that is characterized by thoughtful behavior, but prolonged thinking is not always beneficial and may even lead to the consequences of thinking too much and not acting.
So for this kind of "it's easy to take time, but long isn't necessarily good" activity, we can add a countdown function so that we can set the countdown after the activity is turned on, limiting the time we have to produce results after a certain time to avoid unnecessary time wasting.
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, has referred to the "TimeBoxing" method of time management as being similar.
> This method of time planning, known as "TimeBoxing", is derived from the iterative incremental software development process, which is a management method of cutting or delaying incomplete functions within the budgeted time, rather than delaying the budgeted time.
Simply put, TimeBoxing is the Deadline you set for yourself.
It seems that Deadline is really the most productive.
# Remote operation - how to control the mobile phone operating software with a computer
aTimeLogger & TimeTrack data interoperability, with web version.
Link:
But the web side is not perfect, not easy to operate, not recommended.
* Alternative 1: Use the computer version of the APK simulator
Download "[NetEase MuMu Simulator](http://mumu.163.com/)", download and install [TimeTrack's APK](https://share.weiyun.com/5Bo75R6), and simulate mobile phone operation on your PC.
1. Select APK installation in MuMu
2. Log into your TimeTrack account and wait for sync (if you keep failing, try another simulator)
3. Software changes default settings
4. Main timer = total time
5. Secondary timer = no setting
6. Icons per line = 6, or adjust the APK simulator by rotating the screen in the lower right corner
7. First day of the week = Monday
8. display seconds
9. Display seconds in report
10. Kill the process after setting it up and restart it in the simulator.
11. Start a new activity in the simulator, kill the process on the mobile side and restart it to see if it syncs
* Alternative 2: Use remote control software such as "Teamviewer", "Total Control".
For details, see this article: 《[手机半死不活的抢救方案](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247485175\&idx=1\&sn=6f797d8920c4949243889c768bdaf975\&chksm=eb21b4b3dc563da5823d058fb67895d4957ab46082d99914ed767a2a2d65219469eb2fcb3c3a#rd)》
Available after Android Root, iOS is not available for now, only emulator.
# Chapter 4: Data analysis
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
The [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/) and [aTimeLogger](http://www.atimelogger.com/) software used in this paper are independently developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny.
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# TimeTrack data export and mapping
Data graphs that are pleasing to the eye can significantly drive your record of adherence, and don't believe me, I am an example.
That's why I stick to Excel data visualization, after all.
> "Beauty is the number one productivity."
First of all, how to export TimeTrack data, open TimeTrack - more - report - select the time period (such as "today") - top right - export report - CSV - share - select the receiving software, I will generally select QQ my computer.
Open with WPS or Excel can be opened, if you use Excel to open the CSV file found messy, right-click the CSV file, open the way to select Notepad, click File Save As, modify the encoding for ANSI encoding format, save, and then open Excel will show normal.
Open the exported data and it looks like this.
Select columns A through F and double-click in the space between columns to adjust the appropriate column width.
We found that the exported data is divided into two parts, the top part of the blank row is the breakdown, the start and end time, duration and note content of all activities, etc., and the bottom part of the blank row is the activity percentage, the duration and percentage of each activity in the time period you choose to export.
The next part of the data lets you visualize which category consumes the most of your time, while the upper part requires you to use some means to analyze it, such as using Excel's pivot table feature.
You can fully select the first part of the data - insert - data pivot table - OK, then put the start time and activity type in the "row", put the duration in the "value", click the duration in the lower right corner of the triangle - value field settings, summary mode select "sum", the number format to "\[h]:mm:ss", OK, then right click at the start time, select the combination, step selection day and month, OK.
The final selection of nearly 4 weeks of data, in descending order, is shown in Fig.
If you want a chart, insert-select the cluster bar chart and you have the simplest chart possible.
The ability to export data for analysis greatly enhances the playability of the data, this advanced operation not only exercises your hands-on ability, ultimately beautiful mapping, but also a kind of positive feedback, next, I will share more data usage to you.
Also, not every export is "smooth", as you may find that there are overlapping data.
If you find that there are overlapping times like "S4:Unhanded, S2:Planned" before you export the data, you first need to locate the overlapping data and fix them.
Go back to the Activity History List page, select Pie Chart, Day, observe which day the data overlaps, then switch to List View, Modify.
If you are also a full time recorder, then when exporting the data, you also need to see if the total time is around "167:59", with a 5 minute error.
If the error is too large, you should find out on a daily basis if you have missed something and make up for it.
# What to do with weekly exported data reports
We'll skip the daily data analysis because there's very little to see in terms of "days".
It is enough to focus on the completion of the "goal" on a daily basis, without having to take care of all activities.
After a week, we need to look at all the time spent from a whole-event perspective and get it right. Clicking on campaign details one by one in TimeTrack works, but is too cumbersome, so we chose to export the data to Excel and analyze it.
I'm used to sharing data to QQ My Computer, here's a tip, if you also share to QQ, then it's recommended to set "My Computer" to the top to avoid posting errors.
After getting this data table, we find that the data of the export cycle is divided into two areas, the first area is "Detailed Data", which contains the data name, start time, end time, duration, notes and labels.
The second area is the ratio data, which shows only the activity type, duration and ratio, in descending order by default.
The first step in data analysis is for us to be clear about **what the baseline is**?
The baseline is the proportion of time we allocate to our different activities in the section "Polishing your categories and fixing in 1 month", break it down into weeks and you get a baseline of consumption for each activity week as shown below.
Then we compare the baseline to your actual data for the week and see which activities are overtime, which are not enough and which are flat?
Naked eye comparison is not impossible, but Excel is still more convenient to match comparison directly with the vlookup function.
Paste the baseline data into the next column, use the function to extract the duration of each category, and if it's not formatted correctly, brush it with the format:
Filtered, descending order is shown in Fig:
If you still find it inconvenient to see, you can set the conditional format or use the if function to highlight it.
I'm used to making a source table that stores data once a week and can customize the periodical analysis, as shown in the figure:
The benefit of this is that pivot tables can be created that not only compare baseline values, but also see time trends for each type.
Drag the activity category and detail to "row", drag "year" and "week" to the column, drag the duration to "value", select the sum, set the time format, then select the nearly 7 weeks (according to their own preferences) data, and finally add the 0th week, which is the base value, to get this table:
Select the data area, in descending order, and you'll see the time movement of all the data.
We need to identify the "outliers" for each category, the activities that deviate disproportionately from our baseline, and ask ourselves why this is happening. Write them down after you find the answers, stick to them for a long time, and these are your behavioral records.
If, for example, I go through the May Day holiday, and when I go through May Day time, I find that during the holiday, my recreational time goes up significantly and my writing time goes down significantly, then this would suggest (corroboration #1) that I don't invest much time in studying during the holiday.
This actual behaviour creates a gap with our expectations, as we often assume that "I will study well for the next holiday", thus giving ourselves a lot of to-do list. The reality is, however, that it's embarrassing to not get it done at all.
That's the beauty of an honest record, helping you find your baseline.
# What to do with monthly exported data reports
Reports are produced in units of "months" as opposed to "weekly reports" in which the exported data area is "detailed data".
After exporting the breakdown data, paste the breakdown data into Excel, process it with VBA, and replace the "S\*" mark in bulk, corresponding to the following.
The disaggregation function is used to split activity types into two columns, primary and secondary classification.
Then copy and paste the "finished" data to the monthly source table, and the supertable (Ctrl+L) will automatically expand the area and fill in the "time property".
The time attribute is matched using the vlookup function and the parameter table is placed in the "Activity definition table".
**Delete the first data from the beginning of the month**, as this one duplicates the last one from last month, and you can observe for yourself.
Select all data, create a pivot table (monthly pivot), drag "Start Time" to the row, "Duration" to "Value" and "Activity Category" to the column. Set the format of the "value" to "summation term" and the numeric format to "\[h]:mm:ss".
Insert chart to add visualization:
Finally, we need to check the monthly data to improve the "authenticity" of the data.
For example, after making the data table every month, I will filter out "entertainment", "reading", "other", three categories, the first two correct the naming of the notes area, the latter browse through the notes to find out if there is a classification error.
For example, if I'm reading "The Road to Wealth and Freedom", I'll write down "Wealth and Freedom" (don't be too simple, or you'll forget what you read at the end of the month), so I'll need to make up all the abbreviations in my monthly data notes for subsequent presentation and analysis.
If you are not like me and like to put all the data into Excel to process, then you have to mark the record, such as the book title number "", easy to "search".
Note that the search box is not displayed on this page by default, and will only be displayed if you "drop down" it.
# Automated data processing, 30 seconds to completion
The monthly breakdown is the starting point for our data analysis, so this source data table we need to ensure that.
> Data as error-free and accurate as possible
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> Easy to use, templated
The reason we correct the categorization and notes once a month is to maximize the accuracy of the data.
Secondly, I set up the "Week" and "Month" super tables, which will automatically update the pivot table just by pasting a data refresh. Then I set the "S\*" identifier that needs to be parsed each month to VBA (batch replacement + disaggregation + deletion of the first entry at the beginning of the month) to speed up data processing.
These steps are all packaged in an Excel sheet with the macros turned on, guaranteeing no more than 5 minutes from adding new data to completing the visualization, preparing the data environment for subsequent analysis.
Finally, I set up a monthly public schedule (2019), refreshed the data and copied and pasted it into an image to send to my circle of friends to sync my time goal progress.
In other words, the complete event log data table contains "Week" data, "Month" data, "Week Insight" data, "Month Insight" data, as well as "Event Definition Table" and "Layout" memos, a data processing "VBA" table, and finally the "2019" goal progress table presented monthly.
It's not that we can make such data with a table, it's also necessary to bury the markup in TimeTrack.
For example, the "S\*" tag and the "#, @," symbols in the comments column should be added to the activity when it is created.
With this specification source data table, we can process time data more quickly and easily.
The source data template was significantly updated in 2019, highlighting key indicators and improving visualization.
The illustration is as follows:
With this report, from exporting your data in TimeTrack to importing it into Excel to start analyzing it, it takes 2 minutes.
This set of templates took almost half a year from having ideas in prototype to actually implementing them on Excel.
From the template function processing to the VBA, layout to the color matching, to the red and green lights up and down arrow markers, and even row height column width, from large to small I can take into account the details are all added in one Excel!
# It's a time record and an important diary.
The time record never exists in isolation.
With a little expansion, he could have spawned another product, such as an "important diary".
We go to the "month" data table, sift through the current month's data, descend it, find the single longest lasting activity, and then recall what we were doing at the time, adding "notes". While memories are certainly not immediately accurate, it's better than nothing.
After you've added the notes, create a new column with "important things" at the head of the table, then add a star (★ or something else) for those things that you think are important to you, and refresh the "monthly perspective" table.
The quality of the time period can be judged by the "number of important things" in the time period, the more "★" means the higher the quality.
The final push back to the year, resulting in a yearly list of big accomplishments that become your life record book.
# Is data security and privacy guaranteed?
As we record more time, so does the data, and if you record full time like I do, with an average of 50 events per day, that's 18,000 rows for 1 year. Then you must be asking.
> "Is my data security and privacy guaranteed?"
Let's start with security.
Since going live in 2013, aTimeLogger has not experienced any data loss as a result of user feedback.
But in order to avoid small probable events (server crash, etc.) occur and cause irreparable errors, I still recommend users to regularly backup the complete data, for example, I will export CSV into Excel time record source table backup every month, update Baidu cloud disk once a year, multiple backups to avoid data loss to a maximum extent.
Losing data can be a huge blow to record motivation.
If this does happen, give timely feedback to developer @Sergei Zaplitny and try to get it back. Of course, if you do it yourself and delete the data, there's nothing the developer can do about it. The software complies with the GDPR terms and conditions and has a "Cancel Account" button, do not click it unless necessary.
Second is the issue of privacy.
If you are particularly worried about your data being compromised, you should not log in when using the software (TimeTrack must be logged in, but will be weakened later), then the server will not be able to synchronize your data and all data will be kept in your phone. The downside is that you can't synchronize the data of your mobile phone and make your own choices.
# Data analysis methodology to make time work for you
We've defined before, "what the law of timekeeping is." It is a "method of actively controlling the flow of time and achieving goals by recording time." So all the data exporting, organizing, templating, etc. that we have done before are actually prepared for "proactive control and goal achievement".
When we have the data, we also need to learn how to make guesses about the data we already have and validate them with actions, only a combination of data thinking and action can help you reach your goals.
So, data methodology, in a nutshell, is five steps: get data → process data → visualize → make guesses → verify. Repeat the cycle.
* 1\) Access to data
When we export data from TimeTrack, we make sure that the data does not overlap, i.e. "up to 24 hours a day", there is no overlap time.
Then, even if there are groups, we don't check the "Show separate groups in CSV report" in the settings, because the data will be interrupted when exporting the data, and you need to manually modify the proportional data and increase the workload.
2\) Data processing
We need to make additions (e.g., additional notes), deletions (e.g., deletion of the first data entry at the beginning of the month), and corrections (e.g., correction of the "other" classification) to the exported data before it can be officially deposited in the source data table.
3\) Data visualization
We created pivot tables and pivot views, coupled with conditional formatting, to allow us to see changes in the data at a glance.
(4) Speculation
We make "self-righteous" guesses by looking at data comparisons, trends, peaks, and outliers.
5\) Verified Conjecture
With real data, we can use data pivot tables to discover the difference between imagined and actual data.
For example, "I thought I got a higher salary when I changed jobs", but an actual analysis of the data found that "the hourly wage decreased after changing jobs"; "I thought I was studying after work", but an actual analysis of the data found that "all activities after work are 'entertainment'", etc.
This data analysis methodology has slowly helped me to develop data thinking, what is data thinking?
Let me give you a common example from life, if someone asks.
"What's the point of reading a book and forgetting it?"
The same goes for the recorded data, if you simply save the data and keep repeating the "get - process - visualize", it will not help you in any substantial way except to look at the data and get high.
You have to get out of this cycle, and don't forget that you now have an advantage that most people don't have, and whatever it is, you can at least measure it in terms of "time", and time can work for you.
For example, we're looking at a goal and A says, "I'm going to read 100 books this year".
What does this phrase mean in terms of time?
We opened the time data, sifted through the "reading" data for the past year in the monthly pivot table, selected all the reading time, to see how long it took to read a book myself, and my answer was 2.5 hours/book (including books that were flipped and not read).
That means "I'll read 100 books this year" means 100\*2.5 = 250 hours this year, an average of 0.7 hours and 42 minutes per day. It can be done if nothing goes wrong.
Suppose we see another sentence where B says, "I can only see 50 movies this year at most".
We sifted through the "entertainment" data and located (movies with "@" tags) all the movies and found that I watched 235 dramas last year (movies + variety + documentaries, with movies accounting for about 80% of the total), of which there were about 188 movies, which took an average of 1.7 hours each.
In quantitative terms, "only 50 movies" B is likely to fail, since this goal is already 30% too high (180-180\*0.3=126), so it is an unreasonable goal for B.
Did you find it?
The ability to "figure out if a certain descriptive phrase makes sense" based on your historical time data is so important!
Most people don't have this ability because they don't have a reference to historical data that they have time to record, they don't know how many books they read in a year and how much time they spend at work or sleeping.
This kind of "make time work for me" thinking is to quantify the problems in our lives with time and then replace them with familiar indicators that are more conducive to achieving our goals. Of course, you can estimate the data, but you know how unreliable the "feeling" is when you've logged your time, and even less reliable the predictions you get.
Once you have mastered the methodology of data analysis and the data mindset that "you can measure everything with time data", you need to look at the data from more of a perspective. So what are some of the perspectives we are looking at when analyzing the data?
# You can look at the data from these 6 angles
With the data in hand, what perspectives can we observe and analyze in practice? Six angles of reference are provided here.
* 1\) Number of activities
Go to the monthly pivot table, put the activity item and time in the "row", then put the "duration" in the "value", the value field is set to the count item, and the number format is set to normal.
It is possible to filter the number of clicks on active items in different time periods, obtain a frequency value based on the number of clicks, and observe the trend in the number (frequency) of activities.
* 2\) Activity summing
To enter the monthly perspective, put the active item and time in the "row", then put the "duration" in the "value", set the value field to the sum item, and set the numeric format to "\[h]:mm:ss".
The sum of the duration of the activities in different time periods is screened, the length of time is obtained based on the number of times, and the trend of the sum of the activities is observed.
* 3\) Activity rate
For example, when we look at the number of "work" activities, if the number keeps increasing, does it mean that we are more and more engaged in our work? Not necessarily. Because there may be a situation where the working hours remain the same and the number of simple tasks increases, it is possible that the number of interruptions at work has increased, and although the number of activities has increased, the level of work commitment has actually decreased.
To set the ratio of indicators we can open the monthly perspective, put the activity item and time in the "row", then put the "duration" in the "value", value field set to sum item, digital format set to "\[h]:mm:ss", then drag the duration once more to "value", set to value field set to count, digital format set to general.
Then add the count/sum item for the formula to the new column:
Drag and drop if the data remains unchanged, click the Excel tab, remove the getpivotdata generation √, and rewrite the formula again:
Get the number of "views" per hour, as shown in the figure:
We'll be able to spot a spike in the April reading rate based on the summation/counting ratio, and then you can ask yourself, from a 5W2H perspective, what went wrong?
* 4\) Volatility
Sometimes it may not feel obvious just to look at the numbers, but it's much easier to see the fluctuations if we use a line graph:
Immediately there will be a spike in August and December, and then the search for the cause can continue.
* 5\) Seasonal changes
There is a baseline for activity time in life, but it fluctuates with the seasons, just as you spend more money on ice cream in the summer than in the winter, so do activities like "washing up".
The weather in Guangzhou starts hot in March and runs through September, with a rebound in October and November.
The time consuming curve of wash time completely overlaps with the weather, the hotter the weather, the shorter the wash time, which is a seasonal change.
Similarly, we can analyze the curves of weekdays and rest days, and such seasonal and regular changes can help us better predict time consumption.
* 6\) Efficiency values (peak/valley)
We filter the activity terms of gain time and damage events, arranged by hour, to find our 24-hour efficiency distribution.
It can be seen that the damage is mostly distributed at 8:00, 18-19:00. These two time periods correspond to "just got up" and "just got off", respectively, which means that if I want to be more efficient, I must improve my actions during these two periods immediately.
By the way, you can give yourself a list of actions.
1. Get up in the morning and go downstairs for a run or listen to a book/watch a study video.
2. Listening to books on the go after work / talking on the phone with family, studying or exercising / reading immediately upon arrival home.
You can't go wrong with encountering time periods that have to be improved, filling them with friendships, sports, and learning.
* 7\) Remarks - In-depth details
When we analyze the data, in addition to the duration of the first and second levels of classification, we also analyze in depth the changes in the "notes", because we control the number of active items from the beginning, then there must be some behavior that cannot be listed separately.
For example, in "3)", we found that the rate of "reading" in April was significantly abnormal, so we can further analyze the notes of "reading" to see what caused the fluctuations under "reading".
Add a note to "Row" in the monthly pivot table, select summary data, and descending order, as shown in the figure:
You can immediately see exactly what I did that took the most time to do under "read" time.
Number of activity items, sum, ratio, fluctuation, seasonal (cyclical) variation, filtering of notes, just 6 are common angles from which we look at the data, follow this process through all your activity directions and you will surely find more than one new land!
Pick any angle to get started, then keep asking yourself questions, digging deep, and using action to solve those problems you see!
# No clue,That's because you're not asking the right questions.
In the time data analysis methodology, "get the data, process the data, visualize, make a guess, verify" in these five steps, the most "useful" should be to make a guess and verify, because only action, time data has played its due value.
But before you act, you need to know where the problem is. There's feedback from trainees, a bunch of data saved up, and no idea where to start with the analysis. In fact, ask the right questions and you'll find the answers, so try these classic ways of asking questions.
For example, the most classic "5W2H model".
> (1) What - what? What's the purpose? Do what work?
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> (2) WHY - Why do it? Can we not do it? Is there an alternative?
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> (3) WHO - Who? Who will do it?
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> (4) WHEN - When? What time to do it? What's the best time?
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> (5) WHERE - Where? Where to do it?
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> (6) HOW - How? How to improve efficiency? How is it implemented? What is the method?
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> (7) HOW MUCH - How much? To what extent? What are the numbers? What is the level of quality? What are the cost outputs?
This is the way to ask the question, and then the angle of the cut, which can be divided into three segments: peak, fluctuation, and anomaly.
First the peaks, start with the big picture.
Of all your categories, which is the most time-consuming activity item?
I sifted through the data for 2019 to date, in descending order of time, as follows:
"Sleep" takes the first place, but sleep has a single component, which is sleep, and we leave it for now and go to "work", which comes second.
The time-consuming peak of "work" is identified, and then we analyse its "fluctuations".
In chronological terms.
* 1\) Monthly
Detail screening retains only "work", "rows" are placed in months, work is dragged to "columns", and the duration is maintained by summing to "values".
Insert folded line perspective view.
Among the questions we can ask about this chart are.
1. Why is January the lowest? (WHY)
2. Why is March the highest? (WHY)
3. What happens from January to March? (what)
4. Will the "work" fluctuate in the later months of the year?
* 2\) Weekdays & Weekends
Insert a column in the monthly statement, use the WEEKDAY formula, take the week value of the start time, and get Sunday, October 9, 2016 (7).
Refresh the monthly pivot chart, drag "Day" to "Row" and insert the histogram.
Questions on the chart.
1. Which weekday do I put the most effort into? (what)
2. With less time to work on the weekends, is the extra time spent studying or having fun? (where)
3. What can I do if I want to increase my weekend work time commitment? (how)
4. Will the level of time commitment at work now support a 20% increase in my annual salary? (how much)
* 3\) hours
Insert a column in the monthly report and use the HOUR formula to take the hourly value of the start time to get an hourly integer.
Refresh the monthly pivot chart, drag "Hours" to "Rows" and insert the histogram:
Questions on the chart.
1. Who do I spend more of my time on during the 9-18 period at work? (who)
2. What is the reason for the low time commitment of these hours on 10/11/14 and how can it be improved? (how)
In the above example, the fluctuations are mostly in terms of time, ask how the ups and downs in the line graph appear? And the anomaly is comparing existing data to past historical data or others, what's the difference?
Only by asking the right questions can you act on them.
The 5W2H model mentioned in this article and the questioning of the three-part formula, I hope you can use the combination flexibly.
In the next chapter, I will use examples to show what we can analyze when we have time data.
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# Chapter 5: Illustrative examples
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
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# Example 1: How is my sleep?
Lately I've been feeling mentally ill and dizzy during the day, is it because of sleep?
I opened the TimeTrack data and did the following to verify.
Open the time data, create two new columns in the monthly data table, and use the hour function to derive the hour value of the start time and end time, respectively.
In the monthly pivot table, create two pivot tables, filter "sleep" and put the hourly values of the start time and the end time in the "row" respectively.
Got it out that I sleep 85% of the time in the wee hours to 1am and get up 75% of the time in the morning between 8 and 9am, guaranteeing 8 hours of sleep.
It was found that late sleeping was evident, but there were no problems with the sleep duration criteria.
Then analyze the number of times the sleep was active to see if there were any fragmentation cases where sleep was interrupted multiple times.
In the pivot table, the "value" display is changed from duration to count and the format is changed to normal.
We get the number of times we turn on "sleep" in a month, and we use the number of times/day to get the ratio of the average number of times we turn on "sleep" per day, which is 1.2.
Then what we can conclude from the time data is.
1. Significantly late-sleeping, but standard length of sleep.
2. Standard number of sleeps with no significant interruptions.
So poor mental state may not be the cause of sleep, but of course we can at least come up with some suggestions for action, such as adjusting your diet, going to bed early, or taking a lunch break.
If you have a classmate with a bracelet, you can also look at the weekly data of the bracelet, as shown in the figure:
The advice given is that improvement is needed, aided by judgment.
The first example, using sleep time analysis, is to show you how to use the number of times and summation to find problems.
Some classmates might say.
> Are you kidding me? Don't I know whether I sleep well or not? It still needs analysis, and small talk!
We all have a concept of what is good or bad, but it is not enough to have a concept. Which part do we start with? Is it an issue of sleep time, or is it an issue of sleep quality? Having a track record will help you pinpoint the problem that can facilitate your correction.
Why else do you know you have poor self-control but can't change it? It's because you don't know what the difference is.
# Example 2: Did I do the right thing after changing jobs?
I've been tossing and turning for a long time and decided to change jobs. The A job before the change paid $10,000 a month, and after the change paid $13,000 a month, up 30%. So, did I do the right thing about the job change?
I opened the TimeTrack data and went through the work time analysis and verified the following.
* 1\) Hourly wage for "work"
Filter "work" in the monthly pivot table to find the duration of the month and then create a new column, fill in the monthly salary for the month, use the monthly salary / hours worked in the month to get the "monthly salary", insert a line graph, as shown in the figure：
Found that after changing jobs in January 2018, there was a significant drop in hourly wages from the previous $85/h to $62/h, a negative increase of 22%.
A 30% wage increase on the surface, but a negative 22% hourly wage increase in reality, is not a good decision from a salary perspective.
* 2\) The "work" state of mind
We don't have a heart rate value unless we record the number of "heart rates" at work separately, but we can infer from the number of "jobs" and the number of low durations.
We found that the average number of "work" activities per day was normal, but the percentage of <10 minutes of work per day increased from 8% to 37%, suggesting fragmentation of work, possibly with frequent interruptions or temporary urgent trivial matters to deal with.
The B job is not a good decision in terms of both "hourly" and "heart rate".
Of course, there's more to reality than just judging by these two metrics, there's growth, mood, atmosphere, etc., just to provide perspective.
# Example 3: Should I buy this dishwasher?
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 (2*4*365\*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.
# Example 4: How effective is my writing?
Seeing a lot of man articles day shift, feel like I am too inefficient in writing, so how efficient is my writing?
Analyze the TimeTrack "writing" data and verify as follows.
> Writing efficiency = writing word count / writing time consuming.
Open the monthly pivot table and filter "Writing" and "Values" for sum.
If you don't have a separate word count, you can use Sogou's word count function instead, set - input statistics - total input (you can input daily data in today, but you can't export it) and estimate a value.
I then used "writing efficiency = writing word count/writing time" to get.
Writing less than 700 words per hour is so inefficient!
So I put "learning to write by voice and increasing the efficiency of writing to over 800 words per hour" on my list of actions.
Now the efficiency is up to par!
# Example 5: The cost of recording
Many classmates will find it too time consuming to record with TimeTrack every day, what is the actual time cost of recording with TimeTrack?
There are two sources of data.
* Data source 1: iOS "screen time"
Android can use "24pi" or "Application Timer 2", or if you don't use software, we can use data estimation.
* Data source 2: Count of all TimeTrack activity items
Open the monthly pivot table and filter the number of hits for all activities in a given time period, then use the number/time period.
Get my January-April data this year, 6189 clicks total, an average of 51 clicks per day.
If you don't write notes, then you spend an average of 4.2 minutes per day on TimeTrack, counting 5 seconds per click, and if you write notes, counting 15 seconds, then you spend an average of 13 minutes per day, which is the cost of recording.
# Example 6: A future home where the water is big enough for the bath
The size of the faucet in your home not only affects the experience, but also indirectly helps you save lives?
I've found that baths are significantly different in summer and winter, lasting about 18 minutes at a time in winter and about 14 minutes in summer.
Maybe there's no way to avoid the seasonal effects, but I've found that the size of the shower faucet also has a significant effect on the length of time.
I analyzed the "wash" time and found that there is an average difference of 4 minutes between big tap A and small tap B. Then, assuming we wash once a day, 365 days a year, we will use small tap B 24 hours less.
Assuming my hourly wage is $50/hour, that's $1200 a year to spend on a bath because of the small faucet water!
The thinking is similar to the "buy a dishwasher" example.
So I've come to the conclusion that the bath water pressure must be high enough and that not having enough water pressure is a waste of my life😀.
# Example 7: Save money with piracy? Not necessarily.
Have you noticed that it's taking more and more time and trouble to find piracy these days? Is it worth spending all this time to find a PDF?
We don't analyze this issue on an ethical and copyright level (which of course is bad on those levels!) Instead, it's in your personal interest to tell you that finding piracy doesn't actually save you money.
In the monthly pivot table, filtering "reading" time, Remarks column filtering keywords "find", "PDF", "software", etc., to find all kinds of pirated software and crack version of the time, assuming that each time to find resources to spend about 20 minutes, and your hourly wage of 50 yuan per hour, then find pirated resources cost you 20 yuan.
While you can say my time is worthless and willing to spend it, trust me, it doesn't matter if you didn't know how to do things when you were young (or call it low hourly pay), but as your hourly pay gets higher and higher, it's too uneconomical to spend your time tossing those resources around.
That's sort of one of the reasons why timekeepers, in favor of the original, should be able to do so.
# Example 8: Pricing based on hourly rates
I've recently developed a class on line, but don't know how to price it, can the time recording data provide me with some reference?
First of all, I can give you an estimate of the time to record a course, recording time = final draft time \* 15, that is, to see a 1-minute course, recording plus post, etc. 15 minutes will be invested.
So assuming there is a 1 hour recording session, how much would it sell for?
Let's do the costing:
Assuming my hourly rate is $50/hr, then the course sells for a minimum of $750 from a time cost perspective.
Of course, in a real business environment, pricing is certainly not so hasty, and the actual price of a commodity is not equal to an hourly wage but to supply and demand.
# Example 9: The flow of time brings out the clever
I find myself "purposely leaving the drama at mealtimes", but does that not rush the "entertainment" time to the "dining" time, because the former is detrimental and the latter is a neutral time to let my guard down?
This is my "entertainment" time consuming and can be seen to be all the way down.
Then add the "dining" time curve, and it turns out that there is really catnip, from December onwards cross the line, the less entertainment, the more dining.
I said in "Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking you to 'drive yourself to death'", don't set yourself too harsh goals, not only from the point of view of reasonableness, but also the possibility of "things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme", like in the above picture, use other time items instead, so as to console yourself that you have reached your goal.
So, there are always more ways than problems. Explore your thresholds slowly and don't aim too high as soon as you come up, it will be very stressful and you will end up breaking the pot.
# Example 10: What have I been doing in the New Year?
Not analyzing by individual activity items, but packaging the analysis in cycles, is the method I moved from the books.
For example, in the account book, in addition to the separate data such as "Chinese food", "dinner", "snacks", I will also record "travel", so that when I triggered the "travel", during the travel period, no matter what happened, all the expenses are recorded as "travel", so that I can analyze the total expenses incurred during the travel afterwards.
This thinking moves to timekeeping, where we can analyze "the consumption of all time items during the Chinese New Year" to determine and predict what I will do during the Chinese New Year.
When we record in TimeTrack, we can use the tag function to add a scene tag, such as "Chinese New Year", so that the exported data can be filtered separately from the data containing the Chinese New Year tag.
The main thing is that I have a habit of making plans before I go home for New Year's Day, making a list of what I'm going to do this year, and then reviewing it every year after New Year's Day, I find that out of 10 lists, only 2 have been completed, which is amazingly inefficient.
Then I went and analyzed all the activities during the New Year period (February) and compared the time of year (Little Year to the 7th day of the first year) separately, and I was able to find that my activities changed from year to year.
A percentage stacking histogram can also be added to observe the direction of activity flow, as shown in the figure.
The purpose of this is to control the distribution of activities in the whole block of time, and I will know when I make my New Year's to-do list next year, according to my calendar year data, it is impossible for me to have a lot of exercise time, so it is basically impossible to complete the "daily running" to-do list.
Once you have your own schedule of time slot activities, you can make more reasonable time predictions.
Similarly, we can backproject what was done in the time period to produce such a change based on the change in the activity item?
As an example, the length of my "reading" time so far in 2017 is shown in the figure.
Why is there an explosion in reading hours from January 2018 to March 2019?
Matching what I've done, I found it was because of two things: "moving + cabin loan".
Therefore, the conclusion can be inferred that the "moving" in addition to the price factor, there is also a reduction in commuting time, increased study time, plus the effect of the addition of these two, when making the "moving" decision, will not just stare at the money.
Finally, in addition to the new job can not afford the rent of students, I suggest to have the ability to rent a house close to the company can walk to and from work, not to mention how much time is saved, not only do not have to squeeze the bus and subway is too much happiness, and the city village rental, industrial electricity costs do not add up to be much cheaper than the city.
# Example 11: Give yourself a point.
Self-quantification with time data
With time data, you'll find yourself quantifying everything.
For example, use the time data to determine if you had a good or bad day and give yourself a score.
I present three ways of scoring.
* 1\) Ratio method
The score for the day is expressed as a score of gain time/damage time.
In the monthly pivot table, check Table, Analysis - Options and turn off the "Generate GetPivotDatal" function (tick off).
Adjust the layout as shown below.
Use the formula in column F, with the gain time / damage event, get a set of scores, such as column F, change the score is the score for a different time period, the higher the value of the score represents the gain time activity items more than the damage time.
2\) Total percentage method
Divide the gain time and damage time by the total time, respectively.
Right-click on the pivot table and the set value will be displayed as "Parent column summary percentage", as shown in the following figure:
According to the percentage of gain time to fill in the time period of the score, magnify moderately, such as the January score of "32.65%", we directly remove the percentage mark, fill in the score 32.65 can be.
* (3) Target Completion Act
There is a more sophisticated approach, which is determined by whether or not the broad category of activity completes the goal.
For example, my goals for 2019 in each category are: 33% sleep time, 18% learning growth, 16% work career, 12% daily life, 10% entertainment and leisure, 7% transportation, 4% social interaction. Seven categories with one point for completion and zero points for non-completion for a total of seven points.
In practice, I recommend using Method 2 directly, because there is no need to add other operations such as auxiliary column formula.
# Chapter 6: More content
Author: tu Junjie (WeChat account: ffeels))
The [TimeTrack](http://timetrack.io/) and [aTimeLogger](http://www.atimelogger.com/) software used in this paper are independently developed by @ Sergei Zaplitny.
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# Frequently Asked Questions about aTimeLogger and TimeTrack
## How to export CSV report to open messy code in Excel?
Without installing WPS to see Baidu CSV messy code solution, step by step processing is not complicated.
## Why isn't there a "goal" in the tab bar?
More - Settings - Show targets in the tab bar.
## Why isn't "seconds" displayed?
More - Settings - Display seconds.
There are no seconds on the software side of TimeTrack, only in the exported data.
## How can I donate? What is the difference between the different levels of contributions?
aTimeLogger donation link:
Or just scan the code:
There is no difference in price, donations show support for developers and unlocked features are the same.
## Already donated Android aTimeLogger, can I use it directly on iOS for free?
No, aTimeLogger 2 for iOS is paid software and retails for $30.
## How long will the donation last?
One donation for permanent use.
## What is the difference between the "maximum limit" and the "minimum limit" in the type when setting a target?
It can be understood that beneficial targets set a minimum upper limit, harmful targets set a maximum upper limit, and the cues for reaching the target limit are different.
Completion of the minimum limit will prompt "Congratulations" and completion of the maximum limit will prompt "Warning".
## Why did he send a screenshot to @Sergei Zaplitny after the donation and he never replied?
Zaplitny is Belarusian and has a 5 hour time difference with the country, so he usually comes online after 14:00.
Didn't get it after sending the email, please check the trash can for it.
## What is the use of "Cancel account" under "Login/Sync"?
According to the EU privacy regulations, users have the right to delete their account data, so when you click on "Cancel Account", all your data, including account information, will be deleted on the server, but the data will remain local (on your phone).
## Which is the official domestic aTimeLogger store?
Zaplitny in the domestic Android app store is only authorized to upload Huawei and Xiaomi stores, the other stores' installation packages are replicas.
Other than that, the installation package in the group bulletin is also official.
## Why did clicking on Sync under "Login/Sync" fail?
There may be network reasons, switch WiFi and mobile network to try again, if still fails, turn off the software process and try again after a few minutes.
## Why share CSV to software failure?
It may be that the file permissions for the mobile system are not open, granting file permissions in the settings.
Or try "Share to Email" and select my computer.
## Why can't I share my CSV to other software when I only have email and QQ?
Yes, if other software does not show, first click share to email, then other icons will come out.
## How do I use the "Groups" feature?
Under the "Category" tab, when you create a new category, check "Group", then move to select another category, click the second move icon in the top right corner, select the group you want to move.
## Is it possible to use the query function in the list?
Yes, the second tab, the "magnifying glass" icon in the upper right corner, click to find the category name, notes.
## Why is the Calendar Interface missing?
Only when the historical list data range is "Day" will the "Calendar screen" be displayed in the upper left corner, so check to see if the time period you have selected has been changed to a week or month.
## Why doesn't the "cross time correction" feature work?
The cross time correction only works on the "Ended" (second tab) activities, and will not be activated by changing the time on the activity page.
## Why doesn't my phone's notification bar show ongoing activity?
More - Settings - Notification bar settings, also check whether the phone has set the notification bar permissions, sometimes it still does not show, or you can just start a new activity to try.
## Who can I call for feedback on bugs in the software?
Find the developer @Sergei (WeChat: zaplitny) directly in the group and try to use English.
## How to become a volunteer to help promote/improve translations, etc.?
Welcome, small questions can be chatted directly with the group. Big problems or long-term improvements can be made directly by contacting the group owner @Junjie Tu or @Sergei
## Is the security of the data guaranteed?
Yes, the software has been operating steadily for 5 years, the basic data security is still guaranteed, but if there is an accidental deletion or data is lost inexplicably, please @Sergei immediately, he will help you solve.
## What is the difference between aTimeLogger for Android and aTimeLogger 2 for iOS?
The reason for naming them 1 and 2 is that aTimeLogger 1 was iterated to aTimeLogger 2 on iOS, and the Android version was developed on the basis of aTimeLogger 2, so Android aTimeLogger 1=iOS aTimeLogger 2
## What is the difference between aTimeLogger and TimeTrack?
The main difference is that TimeTrack has a tomato clock and labeling function, [the subscription system is paid for,](https://share.weiyun.com/5Bo75R6) and Alipay payment is not yet added.
TimeTrack Advanced Edition has the following features:
Prices are shown in the figure (iOS):
## How to customize the category icons?
When editing the category icon, go to the bottom left corner to create a new icon and select a picture from the album in PNG format, note that it should be in PNG format.
The new version is not limited to image formats.
## Will data be lost when overwriting software installation?
Upgrading overrides the installation without losing it, but it is important to "sync" the data to ensure that it is up to date before installing it when reverting back to a new version or deleting a reinstallation.
## What if aTimeLogger doesn't have a "tomato clock"? (Difference per activity/per time period)
aTimeLogger itself does not have a "tomato clock" feature, but we can set a "target" and make our own tomato clock with the characteristics of the target. Add target, set minimum input time, "per time period" means that the corresponding activity is enabled once every interval of the time period to remind, pause and restart even if one time period; "activity each time" means that the corresponding activity is enabled once, regardless of whether it is paused in the middle or not, it will only be counted once, as long as the target is met.
@EternalFool: The key difference is that if there's a pause in the middle, the activity is re-timed every time, with each time period picking up the last time.
## Is there a client or web version of aTimeLogger?
The client is not available, there is a web version, but there are more bugs, it is not recommended to use, it is currently under improvement.
## What if I can't open the donation page?
If the donation page doesn't open, you can hang up the VPN if you have a condition, change your browser if you don't have a condition, switch to 4G/WiFi and try again, or wait.
## How do I change the category name and adjust the order?
Go to the penultimate "Category" tab, click to enter the corresponding category, and click the "Pen" icon in the upper right corner to edit and rename. Long press the icon to adjust the order.
## How do I change the default export software when exporting a report?
The phone opens Settings-Apps-goes to aTimeLogger-Default Open-Clear the default action to re-select it.
## Click to restore activation after replacing my phone?
Contact @Sergei Zaplitny
## Does the case difference affect when filling in the activation code?
none
## Why can't aTimeLogger record 24 hours in full, at most 23:59?
According to the time zone there is 24:00, but according to the time only 23:59 at most, 24:00 is 00:00 the next day.
## Can I get a refund if I donate but regret it?
If you can, send a payment screenshot + email, contact @Sergei or @John Tu.
## What are the features of aTimeLogger after the donation?
## What is the use of the advanced statistics function after the donation?
"Advanced Statistics" can show the consumption percentage of groups and each category, which makes the data more clear and easy to observe.
## Can I just change the category to a group?
No, you currently have to create a new group and move the category under that group.
## Why is there no sound for the set target alert?
Check whether the APP permissions are fully enabled in the phone settings.
Huawei phones need to change the automatic mode of the battery to manual control.
Also, selecting the time period for the reminder doesn't require clicking on a box one by one.
Tap directly to the far left to select the day, as shown.
## Want to subscribe to TimeTrack but can't use Alipay?
You can contact @Tu Junjie, pay by WeChat feels, or scan the QR code below.
Android TimeTrack.
3 months = ￥21; 6 months = ￥35; 1 year = ￥58; 2 years = ￥68.
## Does aTimeLogger have a watch version?
It's available for both iOS and Android, but it's not guaranteed to work for all of them, so go to the store and download it for yourself.
## Can aTimeLogger dock with calendar software?
aTimeLogger doesn't work, TimeTrack does.
## Does aTimeLogger have a character limit for active notes?
Yes, up to 10,000 characters.
## Is there an upper limit to the aTimeLogger activity category?
None.
## How do I change my password for aTimeLogger and TimeTrack?
There is currently no option to change the password in the software, you can change it by entering this URL:
## After subscribing to TimeTrack on one Android setup, can I continue to enjoy the subscription by logging into the same TimeTrack account on another device?
Yes.
## Do you need to activate it again after changing phones?
After changing phone or activation disappears inexplicably click more - donate - activate - resume, resend the verification code, if wrong, group @Sergei, will resend it to you.
## I use Android TimeTrack but can't upgrade, how do I fix it?
There are currently two approaches.
① Download and pay on iPad or iPhone, then log in to Android with your account.
② Swipe the code below and send the screenshot to me or the developer to help open it.
Donations can be made directly by scanning the code:
Select the export interval data (e.g. week) and all the data in the CSV is exported?
1\) Change the export method, previously it was sent to email, now it is sent to software.
2\) Change the exported software, before CSV sent to WeChat, now it's sent to QQ to try.
# Let more Chinese enthusiasts start time keeping
I'd like to talk to you about how the aTimeLogger enthusiast exchange group in China was formed.
On the evening of March 22, 2018, Sergei Zaplitny (hereinafter referred to as Zaplitny) added a "Join China Users WeChat" entry to aTimeLogger's "About", and Zaplitny and I went online to the "aTimeLogger-China" WeChat.
After communicating with Sergei Zaplitny email for a while in early 2018, I asked him if he would like to start a community in China for aTimeLogger China user communication, I could help, and he said yes, because of the foreign version of WeChat and language issues and so on, I became the community operator and group master.
The evening of April 29, 2018, "aTimeLogger-China" weChat group full of 100 people, I opened a new transit group convenient sweep code; May 28, 2018, "aTimeLogger-China" weChat group full of 500 people, I asked Zaplitny is retired only to retain a total group, or open sub-group, he said you decide, I decided to retired, and "modify the group business card" into the group rules, screening group members.
December 6, 2018, through aTimeLogger software plus my WeChat close to 1,000 people, the group after four clearances, the number of group members hovered around 450, compared to the early cold, active members and cattlemen more and more. We have ever-improving group rules, a cloud disk for data sharing, and an aTimeLogger FAQ manual that we maintain together.
All this, thanks to Zaplitny, the developer of aTimeLogger, and to everyone who contributes to aTimeLogger.
I will take this opportunity to share my story with "aTimeLogger-China" with you.
I can't wait to put the hope of repair on the next version update, I went to find the developer's contact information, but I didn't expect to have it in the software, sent an email to Zaplitny, a few days later Zaplitny returned to me, and then started to help me fix the problem. aTimeLogger slowly became my high-frequency software, but I really don't like the Android version of the half-Chinese, half-English interface, this English dregs with the love of the software, volunteered to say, I help you Chinese.
After half a year of intermittent research, Zaplitny and I solved the Android version's Hanization, Chinese user donation problems, and built a WeChat group. The original purpose of the group was to provide a communication platform for all Chinese users of aTimeLogger, but I have no experience in the community, there are 800 people who have been in the aTimeLogger group, but for various reasons some people come and some people leave, there are also people I very much recognize and appreciate the group of friends, but life is like that, the right is the most important.
A friend of the group once privately messaged me, "Jun, I have expectations for this group, it's different here." I realized that when I wasn't able to provide more value, I might be able to consider things from the perspective of "not letting the community go bad", so I strictly enforced the content of group chats, banned meaningless bragging, banned distribution ads, cracked software, etc. Although the activity would be much lower, it seems that it's not that bad.
The people often need to clear people, there will be group friends will ask me why not use QQ group or open subgroup, my answer is.
1. More people communicate on WeChat than on QQ.
2. Segments have management costs
3. This group doesn't need that many people.
Maybe when 500 people are deleted, maybe I'll consider a new format, but it's still a ways off.
I am most uncomfortable with the people who are the free rider and the "Rookie problem", so in the intermediate group bulletin it is written that "to join the group first look at the group bulletin", and even changed my group nickname to "Tu Junjie (look at the group bulletin before asking questions + FAQ)", even so, some people still open their mouths and ask "Rookie problem", sometimes said tired, I really want to wait for them to solve the problem immediately kick.
Because it's the group master's problem, I always consider "unruly" before I do anything in the group. Some people, according to my personality of "not talking too much", want to kick him when he sends one word, but I still have to calm down and persuade myself that he hasn't violated the group rules.
I think "you may only get one chance to consume it if you give it ten times", so I've always been careful about the use of group master power, my own articles, my own ads, irrelevant content never posted to the group, nor will I start anyone to do anything for me. But one thing I've since figured out is that "I have to tell other people what I stand for by doing it over and over again to make the community what I want it to be", so now there's no soft spot for people who don't have the same values or who feel like they're a paying customer.
I hope all aTimeLogger users can achieve their goals through this software, whether they want to become more time-savvy or more self-disciplined, there are always 500 people willing to grow with you in "aTimeLogger-China"!
I'd like to thank all of you, especially the six friends @阿颢, @小李, @柳, @栗子, @丸子, and @荔枝.
Finally, to conclude with this passage from Sergei Zaplitny.
> It has been 6 years since aTimeLogger was released, it is dedicated to helping everyone record/manage their time for a better life, just because of geographical differences, many powerful features are not yet known, but I will try my best to perfect the description, also hope that everyone will continue to support, any questions, please raise directly in the group, I will actively solve.
>
> \--\@Sergei Zaplitny
# Excellent articles related to timekeeping
Here are some excellent articles on timekeeping that I have collected from the whole web (in Chinese) for your reference:
1. [aTimeLogger & TimeTrack Official Blog](http://blog.timetrack.io/).
2. [In 2017, I effectively quantified myself with Timetrack | 2017 Essay of the Year.](https://www.sohu.com/a/224728657_115785)
3. [Practice the time recording method, what I've got.](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/47929958)
4. [Build your own Excel time books with aTimeLogger.](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/47929958)
5. [Timekeeping not exactly northward -- Toggl User Guide.](https://sspai.com/post/43363)
6. [The near perfect timekeeping app in my eyes: Timetrack.io丨Matrix Featured.](https://sspai.com/post/34820)
7. [Life Cycle: Excellent automatic time recording app.](https://sspai.com/post/36137)
8. [How do I keep track of time? Share my thoughts on using atimelogger software.](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/39657452)
9. [You can also "see" time in just one year - my history of time statistics in action.](https://www.jianshu.com/p/0270e2d73a99)
10. [How aTimeLogger works - let time take us flying.](https://www.jianshu.com/p/cf834f3fbd6b)
11. [aTimeLogger time recording and analysis.](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pwPD8TaEqWQ4cfqcOtrfzw)
12. [How to Record Time Spending Effectively - aTimeLogger2 Usage Tips.](https://www.douban.com/note/474969256/)
13. [Building personal big data - time logging statistics tool aTimeLogger2.](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/n0oT7SBmUqw69HdX1k4o1A)
14. [If at least 10 big names recommended the same learning method to you, would you want to learn it?](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GrgonlZPIa0yykui0XsC9A)
15. [aTL2 Private story.](https://du.101.camp/2018-10/atl2tt-story/)
16. [When you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, you're not far from changing your bad habits.](https://www.zaojiu.com/talks/2127)
17. [Secrets about the Time Statistics Method.](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/23618154)
18. [How to evaluate Lyubishev's time statistics method?](https://www.zhihu.com/question/37195613)
19. [Lyubishev-style time recording using Excel.](https://cloudlet.info/t/912)
20. [Is it useful to record the time spent each day?](https://www.zhihu.com/question/33530486/answer/617318955)
21. [The Gate of Time: An article that gets the "Time Statistics Method" right (long article with caution）](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5NzE1ODI2Mg==\&mid=2649331322\&idx=1\&sn=60539e6a904f121959b9a59e7d02de89\&chksm=88b82363bfcfaa75997869b19ebfc042bc3773e9525aeec4769acfce4c427c825e888653ac6a\&token=1899901133\&lang=zh_CN\&scene=21#wechat_redirect)[ ](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5NzE1ODI2Mg==\&mid=2649331322\&idx=1\&sn=60539e6a904f121959b9a59e7d02de89\&chksm=88b82363bfcfaa75997869b19ebfc042bc3773e9525aeec4769acfce4c427c825e888653ac6a\&token=1899901133\&lang=zh_CN\&scene=21#wechat_redirect)
If you're also a creator, feel free to contact me to introduce yourself so more people can see you!
# Other time recording software
Here to add some time recording software, interested students can search the evaluation or try it themselves.
* TimeMeter
* 时间块
* ihour
* Atracker
* toggl
* now then
* 须臾
* 爱今天
* life cycle
* 小容
* 时光序
* Time Recording
* 光阴似金
* Gleeo Time Tracker
# Everything is connected and the future of time recording is in our minds
**The record of the future must be completely automated and senseless.**
In other words, you don't feel like you're being recorded, but the record has permeated your life and **the precipitated data will know you better than you do**. In fact now that the bureau networking giants are already doing it, think about the smart recommendations of various APPs.
After seeing Black Mirror a few years ago, there were a few scenes that I could never get out of my head, and I thought, that could really be the future.
For example, in the third episode of the first season of Black Mirror, a chip is built into the back of everyone's head, the chip will help you remember all the images your **eyes** see, call to share at any time, and can also automatically analyze your blood alcohol content, your heart rate changes and other physiological indicators, when you drink and drive, the chip will **remind** you in the brain of the risks of doing so.
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For example, in the first episode of the second season of Black Mirror, by collecting all the information about a man while he was alive, his photos, his voice, the words he wrote, his style of doing things, his emotions in the face of different events, he was automatically integrated and simulated into a "him", a **reenactment** of life or a **digital resurrection**.
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Then there's the human-to-human interaction in the first episode of Black Mirror Season 3, which implements **the scoring mechanism**.
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Black Mirror, Season 3, Episode 1, "The Fast and the Furious
It's also like the "baseball card" mentioned by Ray Dalio, author of The Principle, when our work cards are swapped, it's possible to know what the person is recognized as good at, what labels they have, what they like to do and what they don't like to do, and ultimately the system automatically determines which group of people might be better off arranging to do which things together.
Kazuo Yano (author of 《人生新算法》) has implemented a work tag for information exchange, which he calls **"Business Microscope"**, which records the number of times the wearer meets/conversations with different people each day, who he spends more time with during breaks, GPS data, etc.
While several of the stories in Black Mirror ended badly, with the Valley of Terror phenomenon, ethics, and security issues all raising fears about the future, I believe that a digital life with **everything connected** will be a reality!
In addition to sci-fi, there are a few [TED](http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484029\&idx=1\&sn=46564fe260f85e48fe9884b37377eca0\&chksm=eb21b039dc56392f39c692cc567b161da3379249857c9b69fc1a1303c1f58dad4dfec318f55f\&scene=21#wechat_redirect)s that are also worth checking out.
1.[Every single life matters equally and infinitely.](http://open.163.com/newview/movie/free?pid=MB3M6LDG1\&mid=MB3OBKTVH)
I like the idea of StoryCorps. How can we prove that we existed in this world in the future? Instead of regretting before you die, why not act now?
2.[After your final status update.](http://open.163.com/newview/movie/free?pid=M8VRP0RGR\&mid=M8VRP3P9K)
What about our social accounts after people die? Waiting for the official recycling? It's time to think about your digital legacy.
3**.** [The Quantified Self.](https://dwz.hm.baidu.com/redirect/PPhMLNqm?target=PPhMLNqm)
The TED was nine years ago, when speakers were able to track their body, mood, diet, expenses, etc., through wearable devices, and later set up QS (Quantified-Self), which contains a variety of formidable person.
Of course, no matter how the recording mode develops, it is inseparable from "**awareness-early warning-trade-off-optimization**". With such a positive cycle, technology will make it **more convenient for us to record** in the future. You can wait until technology is more advanced, but time will not wait for you, so [you might as well start now](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484873\&idx=1\&sn=b45dd7055fced2c82fbd73482814f94f\&chksm=eb21b78ddc563e9b9566f248e8ddc8b665ff5eee22aac28a41a9d6b32f4e78a8a9a2d982ac78\&scene=21#wechat_redirect).
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Finally, a list of recommended related movies.
Black Mirror.《黑镜》
The Matrix.《黑客帝国》
Lucy.《超体》
Transcendence.《超验骇客》
Gattaca.《千钧一发》
If you find a similar movie recommendation or any information, feel free to recommend it to me!
# 4 New Thoughts on Time
I would like to share with you my new perspective on "time" in the four years that I have been exposed to time records.
* 1\) Time is non-linear.
The nonlinearity of time is reflected in the nonlinear relationship between input time and output time brought about by different scenarios at the same time.
For example, if we take the bus at 7:00 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., there's only a 15-minute difference in the time we take the bus, but the bus stop starts to get crowded at 7:15 a.m., which causes us to wait for one more bus, or even block a few more traffic lights, and the end result is that when we get to the office, there's actually a half-hour difference instead of the 15 minutes we thought there would be.
So even if the same amount of time is input, it may lead to different output time results in different scenarios.
* 2\) Time is not equal for all
It is generally accepted that time is a weapon for the common man to reverse himself as all men are created equal.
But time here is only one dimensional; time in reality is often at least two dimensional.
For example, we all have 24 hours, but the "utilization" of time is different for each person.
Plus the "utilization rate" is the original only a horizontal coordinate of the time line, into a "efficiency (energy)" vertical coordinate of the time efficiency area map, assuming that A and B are 24 hours, the horizontal coordinate is fixed, but if A students, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the efficiency is very high, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. efficiency is very low; B students can ensure their own from 12:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. The efficiency is high.
In this way, according to the area, B students are clearly superior to A students.
Because of the different efficiencies in the use of time, the result is that each of us does not have equal time in the true sense of the word.
* 3\) Time can be purchased.
What was the phrase we heard the most as children?
"An inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time."
The elders may teach us that what is the use of having more money? Can't buy time either.
But actually, time can be bought, and it's not that hard to buy.
We have used the concept of "hourly wage" in many cases in the previous article, hourly wage represents the selling price of your time, your boss can buy your time to help the company create benefits, so why can't you buy other people's time to help you create benefits?
We also said "why don't you spend time looking for piracy" from an hourly rate perspective, because the time you spend looking for piracy, the time you might spend, converted to an hourly rate, could already buy the next book.
When you have the concept of "hourly rate" in your head, you should be able to see that as you gain experience, your hourly rate is bound to get higher and higher, and it's not worth it to spend time doing something you're not good at and don't like being inefficient at. Learn to "outsource", as long as other people do things for you, you pay less than you earn, then you will always be positive cash flow.
Let's say I write articles and like to create, but don't like typography, then I can outsource the typography to an editor and I just concentrate on creating.
* 4\) Time is a renewable resource
Everyone knows that time should be cherished, because life only comes once and time is not renewable.
But actually, when you look at it another way, time is also a renewable resource.
From a long-term perspective, it is inevitable that people are growing and aging, but in the short term, every day is new.
As students, for example, we would tell ourselves after a special day, like a new semester or a birthday, that I must study hard and "be a new person" from today on. Whether it sticks in the end or not, don't be afraid, look at your time in the short term, your every day is new and once you realize the preciousness of time, it's never too late to start changing.
# Bringing the timekeeping method to life
The "record, categorize, analyze, change" mentioned in the time recording method is actually the classic [PDCA](https://shijian.tujunjie.com/ch02/ch02.12) cycle.
This model can be applied to any goal you want to achieve.
For example, I was "writing an autobiography" before, a big project of 140,000 words, how to chew it down in one bite?
The PDCA is simply subdivided into these steps:
1. Targeting
2. Project for a goal
3. Set deadlines
4. Splitting the target to each day
5. 50 separate jobs
6. Visualization of progress
7. self-discipline is not as good as others
As the project moved forward, I made this record sheet.
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Monitor **key metrics** in your goals such as weight loss is weight and calories, learning to program is number of lines of code and time.
Begin to record this action, which in the words of Think Rich is, "Fire your faith into the universe."
Of course, from a scientific point of view, recording this action is actually a "strong reminder", every day you will be exposed to it, see it, always think about it, naturally, more attentive and easier to complete.
What about you? When are you ready to move in and launch your surefire beliefs?
# Postscript
I keep emphasizing "appropriate" in the book, I wonder if it will give people the feeling that "the time record is not good enough for me to recommendation without a brain".
If you can read this, I'm telling you, I'm a brainless recommendation, and if you learn it, I guarantee you'll get something!
Record what? Never just time, but also [diaries](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484663\&idx=1\&sn=04f0a87ec799f88f8cb1020b8b529e65\&chksm=eb21b6b3dc563fa51126c73fbd133af2541bbd09fc948bb8ca8280574f2383f8a489ac821292\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), [essays](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484732\&idx=1\&sn=83d0392be7f72915b1c8590344340998\&chksm=eb21b778dc563e6e7015553788a3273e6084ee6cfcd497da9403cd1cb2068ff99af96ea9087d\&scene=21#wechat_redirect),[ finances](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484558\&idx=1\&sn=5f6dbb873b63c920f255c266e48f3956\&chksm=eb21b6cadc563fdc776f7ba29ab568cdcf9c1498139520d62e38db9b1e246ec25a482f976dc0\&scene=21#wechat_redirect),[ideas](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484754\&idx=1\&sn=0ea6e543dadfd3f4d2dd0afcfb0a57fe\&chksm=eb21b716dc563e0097c6acbf94e3bed6c128ea6315f5f52105509e4e515c078495e1af82d12e\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), [contacts](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484615\&idx=1\&sn=ae0f6350d150da32913199859969a79b\&chksm=eb21b683dc563f95794eee235d5e3e4cd671c118a81bb244bec4629805933c38c93d458ce250\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), t[ime records](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484675\&idx=1\&sn=5da93eba9aefd0c6a41f9267d1a61706\&chksm=eb21b747dc563e515682df6ad9e8cfa487c5bc98324681abb54145e55273e09e1bdbdd87be36\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), web page views, work journals, [lists of items](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484522\&idx=1\&sn=bafef93ee00e8e9c22665d6e6a392d54\&chksm=eb21b62edc563f380af183357ebcc4d9bd3ed8fc85e69349445ebdfb4f97cc152c614a0db9e3\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), etc.
I'm sure a lot of people have tried these records, but not many have stuck with them, and most of the reasons for giving up are "**useless**".
But a lot of great people don't think so, like them.
**@成甲** **《好好学习》**
> * The NIH once did a study where they helped 1600 people with obesity problems lose weight. Both groups lose weight in the same way, except that one group is required to keep track of what they eat, **just record** it and don't have to do anything else.
> * At our company, employees are trained to keep a reflective journal, and there's also a suggestion to record their **emotions and the process of thinking,** not just the outcome of things.
> * Recording is **the process of active thinking,** of tapping into the unseen relationships behind what is seen.
**@DanielPink** **《时机管理》**
> * Spend a week recording your **mood and energy** level values in the afternoon, including how sensitive your brain is and how physically energetic you are, and find out when your afternoon lows are, which for many is about seven hours after you wake up in the morning, and during that time you will find that when everything starts to go south, that is your ideal nap time.
**@孙圈圈** **《请停止无效努力》**
> * Discover your **gifts**, spend a week documenting the moments you feel powerful and frustrated with a table, and filter out the moments that may be related to your gifts based on the SIGN principle.
**@发愤的草莓《现在就干》**
> * Recording speaks for itself, and you're also **monitoring yourself** when you're recording.
> * The recorded data will not only be used to brag to future generations, but most importantly, it will be used to report **honestly** to oneself about the use of time and to express reverence for the time that has passed.
**@李笑来《把时间当作朋友》**
> * The deadliest, and more likely consequence of your failure to document is that you don't appreciate that you have any reason to beat yourself up - because you **don't know** what you've lost.
> * It's best to fix a period of time, if you have the conditions, to document the arguments and points that are currently incomprehensible, for, against, and indifferent. For the incomprehensible, write down what your doubts are at the time; for those who support it, record a few reasons or examples; for those who oppose it, record a few reasons or examples; even for those who do not care, record their reasons. A person with such a well-documented habit will acquire an ability to process information and knowledge that others cannot have - "regurgitation".
**@艾力《你一年的8760小时》**
> * After each week's logging is complete, I do a **reflection** where I write down the meaningful, silly things I did each week. For example, I'll keep track of what books and movies I read each week and the 5 things that impressed me the most - these 5 things were the most meaningful relatively speaking during the week and writing them down will be quite rewarding. It's even more important to know what the silliest thing you do every week is. I've done a lot of stupid things before, including dropping my phone down the toilet, getting ripped off, and losing my passport. I took it all down, as long as I don't make the same **mistake** again in the future. But you'll find that most people, for the most part, have been making the same mistakes all their lives.
**@吴军《见识》**
> * Being in any profession, such as an engineer, accountant, or lawyer, comes with some challenges, and by solving those challenges, we progress. Unfortunately, most people overly trust their memory, thinking they can remember, but actually forget quickly, waiting until the second or third time they encounter the same problem, or spending a lot of time trying to solve it. So that's one of the benefits of doing everything on record. Another benefit of doing the recording is that the progress is much faster after **thinking** about it again in the process of recording. In contrast, Europeans and Americans are more interested in records, and they invent something that can give a definition of the era, such as the era of the rise of American industry, how experiments were done at that time, and can still find records today, so that experience can be easily **accumulated and passed on**. In contrast, in China, lost is such a common word that it is often invented repeatedly at a low level.
**@剑飞《极速写作》**
> * As long as this event was actually happening, there is a record of it to **be reviewed**.
> * Everything that is recorded has room to **be improved**.
**@Peter Drucker《卓有成效的管理者》**
> * How to **be effective**: 1) record and analyze the use of time; 2) focus on contributions; 3) use people's strengths; 4) prioritize priorities; 5) make effective decisions.
> * Many effective managers regularly keep such a time log and take it out for regular monthly review. At the very least, effective managers tend to record for one time period of three or four consecutive weeks, daily, and two or three times a year. With a sample of time-consuming records, they will be able to r**eview them on their own**. After half a year, they all find themselves wasting their time messing around with pointless little things. With practice, they are bound to improve in the use of their time. But time management must be persistent to avoid going back to being wasteful.
**@RaeDalio《原则》**
> * I realized that it is vital that people should make their respective principles of getting along extremely clear in their relationships. With this as a starting point, we began to document our principles **in writing**, a practice that continued for decades, culminating in the "working principles".
**@ Phil Knigh《鞋狗》**
> * I carefully documented the company's **secrets of success and reasons for failure**.
**@Bodo Schafer《财务自由之路》**
> * Over time, you'll also need **a thought journal** to record all your creativity, a relationship journal to record all the relationships that make you happy, and a knowledge journal to record all the things you've learned from the mistakes you've made so that you don't repeat them again.
Why do so many celebrities recommend the "record", but you think it's useless?
**The method is right, you're the one who's wrong.**
For example, when you keep a [journal](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484707\&idx=1\&sn=a50c52b3da316a7174adc96b0941d15f\&chksm=eb21b767dc563e711ea70c56fd310a1da3b781749062cd32b44f1cf70f060bd02d9869abd98e\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), do you write a running account and never look back, or is it like this.
1. Step 1: Write down what happened today.
2. Step 2: Classify for what's happening, financial/personal/work, etc
3. Step 3: Mark events that can trigger your own strong mood swings
4. Step 4: Set the cycle, review periodically
What you can reap if you can keep track of your record is this.
* You can tell 50 years from now exactly what happened to you 50 years ago.
* You can analyze the events that trigger your "anger" and stay away from the people and things that might trigger your anger.
* You can analyze your "work" experience and find your core competencies
To summarize, when you start recording and can stick with it, then you will slowly reap the rewards.
* **Precise knowledge of one's body/emotion/giftedness/interests**
* **Improve your ability to think deeply.**
* **Open up God's perspective and monitor yourself effectively**
* **Make fewer of the same mistakes.**
* **Let your experience live on.**
* **Accumulation of a large amount of material that can be analytically reviewed and circulated**
Timely records are **not obsessed with the past**, on the contrary, records exist for the future, they allow me to correct my next move with historical data and have a chance to live better in the future.
Most of [my autobiography](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484633\&idx=1\&sn=4aada58de098175ab7a33f6f99d49401\&chksm=eb21b69ddc563f8b4f61322a6cb756277c3c8fb780434189f6273798a9bdb42635f175b1dd1d\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), [annual reports](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484438\&idx=1\&sn=70dc021c1d0ab16a86625f9bc9677c10\&chksm=eb21b652dc563f44e43d0a3e4a2a360747f39dbca58e717c3a5abaff20fe53c561172c774ca0\&scene=21#wechat_redirect), [plans and goals ](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MzU5MDA1OQ==\&mid=2247484761\&idx=1\&sn=1a82efaf1c323e75b13b1e5745fc28c1\&chksm=eb21b71ddc563e0b38b315878995cd6f26b5265c50e66be2961b7c17382e8b284dc5add5604c\&scene=21#wechat_redirect)were born out of the historical data I recorded.
Believe me, when you start to "get it right", you'll find you get much more than that!
If you're willing to try to get started, then I recommend starting with a journal, without having to follow the previous journal format strictly, just start writing and stick to it for a week.
If you don't have a clue about dry writing, try using this template:
Finally, let's imagine a scene.
> "When your 70-year-old children and grandchildren ask you, **is there any experience you can share with me?**
>
> How would you answer?"
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