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You can define what time is productive or not for you.The things that I like about RescueTime are the following: There are other tools like this out there, but I either haven't found something better to match my needs or I haven't looked good enough.

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I say on and off because I wasn't really using it to its full potential. I've been using RescueTime on and off for the past 5 years.

That's when I realized I had to use something more general that doesn't track only IDE time, so I installed RescueTime. If you go on StackOverflow for a few minutes, they won't track it, even though that still counts as work (actually. I've used IDE extensions like Codealike and Wakatime to see how much time I spend on different projects or technologies, but they only show the time inside the IDE.

get notified when I get distracted so I can return to work as soon as possible.

One of them is to reduce my "distractive time", so I figured that I had to do these 3 things: I envy them, but I'm not like that, and this doesn't make me a "procrastinator", because at the end of the deadline we both finished the task one way or the other.Įven so, I decided to stop focusing on making big goals that would make me feel like I wasn't achieving anything, and instead I would focus on productive habits. Some people can take a task and focus on it until it's completed, no matter if they like it or not.

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Why was I so hard on myself for finishing tasks right before the deadline when I was actually finishing them? Why couldn't I see that while I procrastinated a lot on tasks that I hated to do, I was very productive on the ones that I liked to do? Why was it wrong to spend my free time procrastinating? It took me a few years to realize that I was just different, like we all are. Maybe because I spent most of my free time watching movies or playing video games instead of working on some personal project?Īny of these things could make someone feel like they are not a productive person, but I was not seeing the entire picture. Or because I procrastinated a lot when I had to do a task that I hated? Was it because I was always finishing tasks right before the deadline? But how was I so sure that I was a procrastinator? I really hate this word, it just sounds bad, and thinking of myself like this certainly didn't help. I was a procrastinator, or at least that's what I thought.

I did this too in the past years, always trying to increase my productivity by reading and applying different techniques, because. It's the start of a new year and everyone is making new resolutions, many wishing they would be more "productive" in the next 12 months or decrease the time they're procrastinating.