06-25-2004, 09:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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Analyze How You Spend Your Time
We all have priorities for our lives and plans for how we want to spend our time. But, it's usually pretty hard to figure out precisely how we do spend our time. Well, here's an interesting little tool from SynerWork Software that can help analyze where we're spending our time: TimeMAX.
The idea behind TimeMAX is simple: each day you simply enter how much time you spend on various activities, like work, time with your children, leisure, etc. Then, TimeMAX calculates what proportion of your time is spent on each activity.
The program is entirely configurable, allowing the user to customize the activity types, searches and categories. And the analyses are offered as tables, bar charts and pie charts. All in all, it gives a pretty good overview of just how you're spending your time.
There is a free demo available and a full version for [gulp] $29.99 via Handango. No, that's not a typo; this program does cost $29.99.
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06-25-2004, 09:06 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 80
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Somehow I think I'll leave this one, if it was indeed useful, I would just spend ten or twenty minutes making a spreadsheet in Pocket Excel to do the same thing.
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06-25-2004, 09:36 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 256
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Embarrassingly bad and overpriced. There have been apps doing this since the Pocket PC came out and many do it better and cheaper.
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06-25-2004, 12:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 454
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It seems to me that the time spent obsessively chronicling each one of your activities would be better spent actually working toward your personal goals.
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06-25-2004, 02:10 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 434
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I don't think we want to chronicle how much time we spend devoted to our PPCs, do we? 
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06-25-2004, 03:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 20
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Seems that a more logical and less time\effort in data entry would be to use the Calendar database. An app could query the Outlook Calendar database for unique Category entries and durations for reports of this type.
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06-25-2004, 03:32 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Actually, this application looks like something that could be fairly easily replicated using Excel and a few macros. I know that Pocket Excel doesn't support macros, but it does appear very similar.
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06-25-2004, 03:54 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 307
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Let's look at the programmer's own data...
Time spent checking his Handango account looking for profits: 5%
Wondering why his Handango account is utterly empty: 95%
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06-25-2004, 04:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 378
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Analyze How You Spend Your Time
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Originally Posted by jkendrick
I don't think we want to chronicle how much time we spend devoted to our PPCs, do we? |
My sentiments exactly. I already know mine would reveal how much time I browse for apps and freeware.
The timer in mysystray works just as well.
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06-26-2004, 03:36 AM
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