I thought keeping a timesheet tracking 30 second intervals was ridiculous until I discovered how much more productive I have become. It’s amazing. I think I’m so focussed that I’m finding that I have completed tasks that I can’t even remember doing.
I’ve spoken to the others on the team and nobody else was asked to keep a timesheet. But the instructions sent to me were quite clear. I won’t be the one on the firing line come the next restructure. Bring it on!
I’ve always loved stories of time travel. Doctor Who, Bill and Ted, Marty McFly. They were my heroes. Imagine having a time machine and travelling back to see the dinosaurs or forwards to a shiny future!
That was the dream. The truth is a lot less fun.
“Unless you sign up for this, you’re out the door.”
Yeah, I’ve got a mortgage and a kid on the way. I can’t afford that.
“We need this yesterday!”
That’s what they always say, but there are only so many hours in a day.
There used to be only so many hours in a day.
Turns out that management go hold of the time machine and thought of a way to squeeze more productivity out of workers. Send us back in time now so we can put twice the effort into our work before.
“Never, ever, meet yourself.”
I knew that rule from the stories. But how to do it?
The timesheet. When you’re sleeping, I’m there. When you are off at lunch, I’m there. When you are pissing in the bathroom, I’m there. I’m there at your desk doing your work.
Who gave you the instructions to use a timesheet?
That was me.
I am you and you are me. You just don’t know it yet.
I would implore you all to use ISO 8601 for dates (year-month-day, biggest to smallest)! I sent a message out to my team at my job about this before discovered that XKCD actually made a comic regarding this haha. My favorite feature is that it allows for “natural” (lexicographical) sorting so that you can just sort your files on your computer by name! It also plays nicely with file paths on operating systems since it does not use / to delineate year-month-day.
The ambiguity between month/day in many date systems really hurts my brain. I admit that I sometimes use the US-standard of month/day/year for those individuals whose brains are likely not ISO 8601 compliant.
If you've been thinking of switching browsers or contemplating whether you should set the Vivaldi browser as default, find out what @xdadevelopers has to say about what makes our browser stand out in the crowd. 👇🏻
We recently talked about a free personal time tracking app that we are preparing for release. And very soon we'll share it with all of you. Visually it is mega simple. No complicated dashboards with a bunch of different colors. Only the most important and very functional. We hope this is one of those "as nature intended".
Until then, here are the first screenshots with the task list and timer list. In a light and dark theme to taste.
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Try these Linux bash aliases for more efficient use of the command line
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