Confession time – it’s really bad. The afternoon suffered greatly from my Saturday syndrome. When I’m mucking about I’m not as task oriented and I don’t keep as detailed track in my notebook. Then when I look over my time log it’s sketchy. The blocks of time are, I think, pretty accurate, but they weren’t all written down.
The one thing that time logging doesn’t measure well is quality. There’s a lot of work going on in the Sunday log, but it’s not all high quality work. The fact is, I ran films continuously in the background. This is handy for films with a lot of dead time – you can tune in just for the good bits, and then get back to work when the film slows down.
But it does decrease the quality of the work experience.
If it wasn’t 3:30 in the morning I’d give some analysis.
I guess the immediate lesson is that tracking time doesn’t automatically help me manage it.