Time management practices

Time is like money and must be managed;

By incorporating the things you want to do into time management, your mind will be much easier. You don't have to remember what you haven't done. (If you don't have tools to remind you, your mind will keep remembering this, in a certain accidental moment, the system prompts that this task has not yet been done. This repetition makes the brain exhausted ).

Use the following tools to manage my time:

• Mylifeorganized (Mlo), used to manage future schedule
• Google CAL: manage scheduled activities
• Caizhi: used to record time logs;

I usually spend most of my time on my computer. Therefore, I use the Quick View of MLO to collect information. All collected information is classified every weekend. You need to submit the tasks you have done during the specified Schedule to the Google Calendar calendar (for example, the meeting will be held at ten o'clock A.M. on January 1, October 15 ); for activities that do not have specific time requirements, add them to the MLO and assign them a specific scenario and priority;

Here I will focus on how to record the time log:

It is necessary to record time logs. For more information, see the unlimited journey.Article;

I personally think that the important role of recording time logs is the later analysis, and the unlimited use of the journey is that Outlook does not have this function; therefore, he can only export to excel, then perform a series of data processing and finally generate image-based reports. This series of tedious operations is naturally not a problem for a person proficient in Excel. However, for most of us, you can only sigh.

Caizhi is a financial management software with excellent post-analysis functions. This tool can generate beautiful charts for recorded financial data, and compare the income and consumption in the past two periods. You can see that your time passes through without knowing it, caizhi's complete data analysis function reminds me of migrating data to time statistics;

The time statistics log graph generated by caizhi is as follows:

I used Google Cal to record the time log. The minimum unit of the log is half an hour. It is enough for our daily statistics.

Google logs, as shown in 【]

Google provides the data export function to export personal calendar data to ICS files. The specific export page is as follows:

This file can be imported to outlook for use directly; the file is recorded in text format, encoded as a UTF-8; format:

<P> begin: vcalendar <p> prodid:-// Google Inc/Google Calendar 70.9054/EN <p> Version: 2.0 <p> calscale: gregorian <p> method: publish <p> X-WR-CALNAME: timerecord <p> X-WR-TIMEZONE: Asia/Shanghai <p> X-WR-CALDESC: time log <p> begin: vevent <p> dtstart: latency <p> dtend: 20101009t033000z <p> dtstamp: 20101009t051610z <p> uid: q1lpiaakuv2mv2bq0dl8qfn0oo@google.com <p> created: 20101009t031439z <p> Description: <p> last-modified: 20101009t031439z <p> location: <p> sequence: 0 <p> Status: Confirmed <p> Summary: S: time log ConversionProgram<P> Transp: Opaque <p> end: vevent </P>
 

 

To import a file to caizhi software, you need to convert it to an XML file. Therefore, I have written a program that can extract Google Cal logs over the Internet and convert the Google ICS file to caizhi XML format, if needed, you can make improvements:

In my time log records, I divided into nine categories; in Google Cal, I recorded everything starting with a letter of a specified category, so that in program conversion, google Cal can carry the category attribute. These 9 categories correspond to 9 letters respectively. Corresponding:

C: Action = "C-CTNET ";
G: Action = "G-Social Networking ";
H: Action = "H-leisure and entertainment ";
I: Action = "I-fitness ";
J: Action = "J-Family Life ";
P: Action = "p-Personal Life ";
S: Action = "s-Learning ";
T: Action = "T-traffic ";
W: Action = "w-work ";

The chart generated in caizhi is:

Through the statistical comparison of these nine categories, I can see the focus of my work last week or even a few months ago and the future direction of key investment;

Time is fair to all of us. One day is less than one day. If you don't have money, you can earn more money. If you want more time, you can only save it.

---- Cherish time and start from time management.

This article is launched at: http://colinorg.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/exploring time management frameworks/