Hi!

Look, what I’ve been thinking about lately. You know, I think that though it’s great to use timesheets or a task time tracker, it’s also great to arrange your working time and to have some time tracking methods to make turn the use of a task time tracker from everyday struggle to a part of working process. So I’ve concentrated on finding recommendations or tips, or something that could help. Here’s a couple of them:

Remember that friend of mine, a .NET developer? His pet peeve was the inability to concentrate when there’s a need to track time after each task done.

So here comes the first recommendation that I think to be very useful. It is grouping everyday tasks by type of work. Well, that makes sense, because you can work uninterrupted on similar tasks and enter your records into task time tracker when they are fulfilled.

You know, some task time trackers include timers, and while it may seem tiring and distracting in the beginning, making it a habit to start and stop timers when you start or finish working on a task, will turn this duty into a natural part of working process.

Frankly, both of those recommendations require some initial effort from your side, such as grouping tasks and make yourself click those timers; however with a bit of practice this will come unnoticed. I’ll be looking for more tips, and maybe I’ll stumble upon a recommendation on how to make a task time tracker do everything itself with no help from your side, and make you coffee as a bonus. Stay tuned =)