Rescue ME! RescueTime.com
Considering that time is money and money is time, today Allie and I set out to determine how we are really using our time. In other words, how efficient and effective are we really?
As entrepreneurs it’s easy to lose focus – focus of our vision, focus of our plans, focus of how we’re using our time, etc. Working solo means I have no one to check-in, no “Hanson, wanna hurry it up with the financials?” or “here’s the report you needed on CompanyXY” . I mean, I can’t be the only one who’s spent the day “conquering” a project, only to realize at 6pm that I haven’t finished anything I intended to complete. Instead, at the of the day, I’m left mystified with my unchecked to-do list, wondering where the day went.
So, in search of effeciency and effectiveness, we signed up for http://rescuetime.com, a web-based time management and analytics tool.
Step one: Sign up.
Allie’s thoughts thus far? “It’s pretty damn easy to get started, that’s for sure.” Ha. Five minutes after Allie’s response, I’m just finishing the sign-up process. My analytical mindset forces me to comb through each page, determing how I will benefit from this tool. Apparently this handy-dandy time tracker records the time spent on individual webpages. This information is computed and later compared with a schedule that the users sets up, planning how much time he/she wants to spend on each page. Then voi-la!, Rescuetime produces reports measuring your efficiency. Sounds cool. We’ll see if the first impression actually coincides with the testing round…
Tags: efficiency, entrepreneur tools, Rescuetime.com, Tech Tools
April 3rd, 2010
This is a good reminder, I’ve been checked out of using Rescue Time. Mostly because I do a lot of my work online. It was registering my online time as a distraction. I admit, not all my online time is productive, but a considerable amount is. I need to figure out how to make edits for specific websites that I use so Rescue Time stops calling me a slacker!
April 3rd, 2010
I’m interested in hearing how you do with Rescue Time. I tried it for a few days, but I wasn’t willing to put in all that upfront work to tell it what was actual work and what was goofing off. Also, sometimes that line is kind of fuzzy. I might go to a website to get details about a dance event for someone I met networking, so that’s relationship building, not just planning my social life (which is important too…)
April 3rd, 2010
Alison – if you need help with Rescue Time settings, let me know. I do a lot of work online myself and have had to tweak my settings. I could walk you through it via skype or phone sometime if you’d like. My contact info is on my website
April 3rd, 2010
What a great resource!
April 19th, 2010
This is a good reminder, I’ve been checked out of using Rescue Time. Mostly because I do a lot of my work online. It was registering my online time as a distraction. I admit, not all my online time is productive, but a considerable amount is. I need to figure out how to make edits for specific websites that I use so Rescue Time stops calling me a slacker!
April 25th, 2010
Alison – if you need help with Rescue Time settings, let me know. I do a lot of work online myself and have had to tweak my settings. I could walk you through it via skype or phone sometime if you’d like. My contact info is on my website
June 29th, 2010
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