Track The Time Blog

Interesting read: What Procrastination Looks Like

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Every day we’ll email you to ask, “What’d you get done today?”

Inch by inch, anything’s a cinch.

We’ll keep a calendar for you of what you got done. Look to your streak from yesterday to motivate you today.

Represents time as a hexadecimal colour value. From our friends across the pond.

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And here’s a whole discussion about how it could have been built in HTML5.

Crazy cool clock to bring to meetings to show everybody how much time and money they are wasting (potentially) by being in that meeting.

I’d wager that meetings ARE necessary to get business done. Not all of them are critical. In my honest opinion, I feel like most of the ones I partake in are needed, and worth the time.

Benjamin Franklin gives us this:

From this interesting post about time lapse videos.

Ask yourself three sets of questions:

1. How did the day go? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure?
2. What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do — differently or the same — tomorrow?
3. Who did I interact with? Anyone I need to update? Thank? Ask a question? Share feedback?

Source: The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day over at Harvard Business Review.

Neat post: Four creative calendars… check it out.

Sweet visual 2011 calendar (via Kent):

The Domino Clock – I’d love to have one of these in the office.

Via Design.org

This puzzle calendar from ThinkGeek is pretty cool!

Ran across this sweet info graphic from Cam Hoff over at Design.org Blog.

By the way, design.org is a great site for design resources.

A good blog post about scheduling time for creativity.

Here’s a sweet blog post with photos from peoples work places. Then check out this photo of Steve Jobs’ home office.

I love this little Someecard!

Just had lunch with Sunny Thaper and noticed he had a cool looking watch. Turns out it’s a Nooka watch. He has the one pictured below (only in white). They do some neat stuff with visualizations of time… as you can see in this picture. Each row represents 30 minutes of the day.

An interesting blog post (and discussion) over at The Design Cubicle about finding out your customers budget.

Sweet infographic from Good Magazine showing the value of an hour worldwide.

Ultimately, my whole approach to what I do is 95% effort and 5% talent. I really see it as a sport. You probably won’t become a tennis player if you don’t stand on the court for six hours a day and whack balls over the net. And if you do that, you have to be incredibly untalented for it not to work. But I think it’s tempting to think as a creative professional, you sit there and you’re creative. So much of it is just doing it everyday for hours.

– Christoph Niemann: Short Deadlines Make You Think Straight

A humorous look at pirates tracking their time from Savage Chickens.

Smashing Magazine has published an article titled Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines. It’s rather lengthy, but worth a read.