RescueTime.com

I'm trying rescuetime.com. It's a kooky name, but here is what it does.

Install it, and it lives in the sys tray. You then get an online dashboard and other online controls and settings from their website. It watches all the apps you open and all the sites you visit. You can then tag them.

You can then go to your list of tags, and say how productive each tag is. So since I work with eBay sellers, I might tag my visits to the eBay site as productive since they're more likely to be for work than fun. I might tag my visits to Pandora.com as fun and personal, but I'll leave it at neutral productivity. I don't think that enjoying some music while working is not productive.

But messing with my computer is not productive. Having to go into utilities and other things is, so I can tag those say as "system," and decide that's not productive. And if you're going to use your computer for a big block of personal stuff, you can just tell RescueTime to stop logging what you're doing.

Productivity ratings are -2, -1, 0, 1, and 2. You can then see lots of graphs on how you use your time.

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