6/18/2023 0 Comments Rescuetime free alternative![]() ![]() You can see that things changed when I saw that I was behind my schedule in April. It was quite nice to understand where I was that month in relation to what I had planned. This is a custom metric I decided to track myself using Google Sheets. I consider it one of my best investments.įor most people who want to track expenses and/or budget, I recommend YNAB. In case you’re wondering, the big blue chunk is Travel. You can get monthly reports like the following on :Įxample visualizations of my nutrition stats from My Fitness Pal.Ī breakdown of my spending. It’s quite simple you just install it and keep your cell phone with you. Google Fit tracks your steps, distance, and tries to guess the physical exercise you’re doing (not too successfully on that last item at the moment though). If you, like me, care about how much you’re walking every day, Google Fit may be a good app for you. Yes, I know steps are not a perfect metric of how healthy or active you are, but walking is a healthy thing to do. You can buy them, but you can also keep it simple and do part of this it for free or spend just the minimum. Most of them are wearable devices you can pay some (sometimes a lot) of money for, and they’ll track various things as you go about your day. Body and health □įor this category there are a lot of trackers out there. The Todoist Year in Review is filled with interesting stat about how many tasks I completed when.Ī graph I set up myself to track my Grammarly stats over time. My Karma stats and productivity breakdown in Todoist. Proof I’m not just recommending Todoist because I work here! I use Google to track the places I traveled to (and how much time I spend in a car).Īn email I sent to Doist’s founder Amir back in 2007. Monthly, Google sends a newsletter with a summary of your location data: I usually don’t share much about my location on social networks or other places, but I like the benefits to track the places I visited. I was a user of Google Latitude until it was retired and now I’m using Google Timeline. I’ve been tracking my location for some time now. Track what is essential for you! Where you went □ Remember: Manual tracking takes time and you don’t have to track everything. I think manual time tracking is worth the effort. (I would recommend the book When to understand why the timing of your activities matters.) Over time, I can use this data to optimize my schedule for my energy levels, among other factors. For example, I can take a look at each category of app and ask myself whether those activities warrant the amount of time I spent at the time of day I spent it. I often get valuable insights from these reports on better ways to spend my time. ![]() RescueTime tracks you computer usage in the background. My podcast listening stats from Podcast Addict. The spreadsheet that I automatically populated with all the article I’ve read on Pocket using an IFTTT recipe. Plus, it’s a beautiful reading experience. I discovered that Pocket isn’t just handy for saving things to read for later, it’s also a useful tool for tracking the things you’ve read. It integrates with many platforms and works like a “read it later” app, fixing problem number two. Some sites have good content but awful design/reading experience.Ī friend recommended I try Pocket.I don’t consider reading an article as a task, and I like to use Todoist exclusively for tasks.The data extracting process was too manual.It was working ok, but I had three problems with my method: I’ve tried keeping track of the articles I read in a Todoist project. You can also a breakdown of how you’ve rated the books you read. Goodreads also provides a breakdown by year: This report tells me exactly how much audiobooks changed my reading habits. Goodreads breaks down how many books I’ve read per year. ![]()
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