How to get Productive during work specially during Coding

Ever wanted to know how productive you were in last week or last month. Here is a tool which can measure our productivity by silently running in our system.
RescueTime is an application that can log our working habits and give a clearer picture how you spent your day either it was on Social media(distracting/non-productive) or coded a website(most productive). I am using this application from last 6 months and changed lot of habits by analyzing the graphs shown by RescueTime.

How to setup completely:

  1. First Register your free account here.
  2. Install the desktop application and login with username and password created in above step.
  3. Install plugin for Chrome and Firefox to accurately measure your web surfing habits. It also helps web developers like me to measure time spent on a particular website development.
  4. Don't forget to tick "I'm already using the full RescueTime application on this computer." in settings of RescueTime Plugin on all your browsers.
  5. You are all done. Start working and check back the RescueTime dashboard to view your productivity score.

Optimization of RescueTime Reports:

RescueTime has its database to categorize your activities in productive and non-productive score. But in some cases it may not be true. Like if you are a social media marketer your work will be on social media so it can not be categorized under distracting activities. Similarly if you are developing a website, RescueTime won't know either it is productive or non productive. You will need to manually categorize few of your activities. To do the same login to your dashboard on RescueTime > go to tools > categorize activites > click uncategorized activities in second tip.

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