I do sometimes jot down TO-DOs when out of the house since this is the only paper I carry on me, but at the rate of 1-3 a week. This is just a boring ol’ record of time. General-purpose notetaking, thoughts about what’s going on, TODO lists, etc.See below for specifics on what else I have! This one isn’t hard and fast, but I’m a believer in things being in “exactly one place” as much as possible–I do make some exceptions since I’m working with paper If I talk to someone in person, noting who and possibly what topics we talked about (talking in person often feels like minutes in my head but hours on the clock). If I spent time browsing the web or researching, some vague notes on what about. “Where did that time go”: one of the goals here is to have no huge gaps.Any time I work on a project for more than a couple minutes.While you’re picking up the phone is a really garbage time to try and write something. Drugs are a type of food, the rest is freeform. Anything health-related, including symptoms, drugs I took, and bathroom visits.I’m switching to write these in a computer-understandable way but it’s a work in progress. I used to underline these, now I’m trying putting them between underscores: _. Watching a movie, TV show, youtube, or reading a book.1 package of ramen: yes, 125g chicken curry: no. I omit food amounts if it’s a pain to measure. Any food or drink I consume, with enough information that I could generate nutritional facts if I wanted.Exactly when I woke up, especially if I don’t use the computer first thing (see “Sleep Log” below).There are some things I try to consistently write down every single time, including: I’m less concerned with exactly how long I spent doing each particular activity. The questions I most often ask are “when did this happen roughly” and “do I have any big portions of my day I’m not time-logging”. I’m not fastidious about what the time represents. (7h12m sleep)Ĭancelled torrent verification–I already know this will fail Today’s page starts like this (italics are censorship or words added for clarity): Date:, Tue I typically record an entry either when I start an activity, finish one, or notice I’ve switched activities. Each entry has the current time and what I’m doing. I keep a written (pen and paper) time log which I normally just call my “log book”. By psychic benefits I’m talking about the same kind of thing you get from GTD–you’re not constantly thinking about or trying to remember things that are already written down in a trusted system. In my mind the original life-logging doesn’t cost me anything because it’s so automatic, it’s zero-energy, and it has some psychic benefits. If you’re curious, I’d guess it takes me 2 hours a week spread out to do my life-logging, 1 hour to type it up, and 1-2 hours to do my weekly review. There’s an interesting story about how I systematically broke everyone one of my habits, and it took me 17 years to get in a daily routine after that, but that’s a story for another time. This is going to be a mixture of information about life-logging, how I organize things, and my current schedule, because they’re not really separate things. I’ve become very consistent about it, so this seemed like a good time to write up my current habits for anyone interested. A time log is a journal with a complete record of everything I do. I’ve been keeping a time log since somewhere around 2011.
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