SAVVY TECH GUY
WHERE DID THE TIME GO ?
PONDER ON THIS....
“DOST THOU LOVE LIFE? THEN DO NOT SQUANDER
TIME, FOR THAT’S THE STUFF LIFE’S MADE OF.” —
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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BY:TARRIN SKEEPERS
Unfortunately, this habit is
not as innocuous as it may
appear.Heed my words young
ones,many a success story has
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look at the clock before a
series binge shows you that you
have more than enough time to
kill...five episodes later that
same clock becomes your
enemy, reminding you of the
three and a half hours you’ve
just wasted.
Whether it’s the results of
weekends lost to drinking with
friends, the hours lost to a
series binge or the added up
minutes spent on social media,
we often find ourselves
wondering “where did the time
go?”
What was once a day filled
with the promise of planned
productivity all too often
becomes a reminder of our
inability to manage time.
been halted by the passage of
unproductive time *Sounding
like Gandalf*
Fortunately for us the
wizards of the app world have
provided a myriad of aids
designed to help us overcome
the bad habit of time
mismanagement.
It would take far too long to
list every app out there
designed for this purpose but
we’ll look at a few that, when
used in collaboration with
each other; will provide all
the essentials needed to nip
the problem in the bud.
Rescue Time: Very often
people will chalk up their lack
of productivity to ignorance.
They claim to be oblivious of
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their lack of time
management when completing their
daily missions. In your mind,
equate time to money: no one
wants to lose money so make sure
your time is spent wisely. Enter the
Rescue Time app.
The app has a simple objective, to
record the time spent by the user
on different activities. The mobile
version logs the time spent on each
app, websites visited and phone
calls made and received: it then
provides a report of your time
usage daily. You are then given the
ability to ascribe ratings of
productivity and distraction to
your activities. The app uses your
ratings to provide a productivity
score. The higher your score, the
more productive you’ve been.
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