For anyone wondering, yes I did track how long I spent tracking everything! I spent an average of 47 minutes and 11 seconds per day on it (labelled as "Tracking" in the plot legend).
Some extra points:
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I used Google Sheets to record the data, and R to compile/summarise the data and to make the visuals (with a bit of Photoshop to piece things together
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My spreadsheet contained rows for each thing I did, with columns outling the date, start and end times, category, and any additional notes for each activity
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I updated my data both on my phone and my computer, throughout the day whenever I had time
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Apologies if the quality has been compressed, you can view in on a computer or download the images for the full details
Posted by Pguinne
18 Comments
How much time does it take to track it all the time? For me it is already some work to track how many hours I sleep every night without a tracker,
What do you classify the minutes you spend tracking your minutes as?
Have you parsed anything meaningful from the data? Were there any surprises when you were able to see the bigger picture?
We’re you on extended vacation or unemployed in January?
When you were off work during the Christmas period then the rest of Jan you fell into a late sleeping pattern
Would you day this is your natural/prefered sleep schedule?
What’s the sexy time logged as?
Does “bathroom” include bathing and getting ready? Because otherwise, an hour in the bathroom every morning is too much, my dude.
my god, we humans work way too much
Did it get you any benefit?
I mean, why was this tracking necessary? Or it was just for fun?
Did you learned something about you by doing this?
Except the stupidity, that is off the charts.
I am working on compiling my data for every second from 1991 through 2025
I find your lack of daytime naps… disturbing.
Was it worth it to spend so much time tracking this
If I am reading this correctly, you jerked off 91 times for 12 minutes per sesh?
91 seems low. I’d side-eye that number.
Are you really only walking 20min a week with 4h of bus in the same week? The bus picks you up right in front of your house and drops you at work?!
Congrats on the breakfast, weetbix enjoyer!
These posts are getting out of hand though. inb4 ‘I tracked every femtosecond of my life..’
A bunch of gurus say that you should track how you spend there time but very few if any actually do it. Kudos! Would you say it was worthwhile and productive?
You spent more time in the bathroom than eating? That’s rough, sorry.
I see now that includes getting ready time.