A calendar is not just a reminder device for keeping track of external events.
Used right, a calendar can be a full-fledged tool for thought.
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Ooh, I'd love to trade calendar-nerd methods with you next time we hang! I record every 15-minute block each day, mostly tracking "ways of being" (creative action, execution, quality time with loved ones, duty, etc). It's been a useful diagnostic + reflective tool.
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I used to do 30 minutue increments for entire life. So impressed at this
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Wait, what? Tracking every 30 minutes your _whole_ life?!
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nono, only managed 2-3 years
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kinda funny, because decades from now, I'll have much better recall on what I was doing those 2-3 years than any other period of my life haha
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Toggl's (toggl.com) actually pretty good for this - not automatic like RescueTime but easy enough to use both on desktop and your phone.
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Hm, maybe I just couldn't figure it out, but I couldn't make Toggl work this way. It's all about projects and events with explicit start/stop times. But my mental model is that I want to "color" all the minutes in my day. I don't want to "add a record from 4:43 to 5:18."
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Yeah, I struggled with this, would often forget to end sessions and found it hard to decide the right level of abstractions for projects. Having the analytics was really nice though.