Activity Log

Benefits

The activity log or time log is a tool that helps you to:

• become aware how you use your time
• collect hard evidence on how you use time
• identify your high-performance hours
• identify time wasters
• start improving your time management

How to do it

• create an empty table
• note every half hour what you have been doing
• repeat the process for 1-2 weeks
• evaluate the result (e.g. categorizing)

If you want to track your time in a very detailed manner, you can try the tool RescueTime (www.rescuetime.com/).

There are plenty of other tools (forms, programs, mobile apps etc.) that support keeping a time log. But in principle an empty sheet of paper does the job.