Being creative and productive requires quality time with no distractions. We have always had to deal with distractions that pull us out of our “zone” and destroy our momentum on projects. First it was the phone, and then came email, then instant messaging, and now…social networking demons like Twitter!
There is no way to eliminate all distractions, but it sure is nice to know how much and where our time is going. There are a million time-management tools out there that can help you track your time and set goals for productivity. One of the newest, and requiring almost zero setup and input from the user, is RESCUE TIME.
RESCUE TIME is a cross-platform web application that is designed to track your time spent on the computer. With very little input required from you as the user, it will do a remarkably effective job of giving you an idea of exactly what software and websites you actively use. Was it Facebook or YouTube that made you miss your deadline? Probably both.
As you get more familiar with the application you can customize it to set goals and alerts that can help you boost your efficiency, recovering quality time from other distractions that may simply be making you “feel” busy with work.
Oh yeah, and it’s FREE for individual use!
http://www.rescuetime.com/
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