The document analyzes data from time tracking over 480 days, including over 7,000 activity records. On average, a person engaged in about 15 activities per day that lasted 15-30 seconds each. Sleep accounted for 11-15% of time on average each day. Personal and discretionary activities each accounted for about 30% and 22% of time respectively. Tracking time helped the person focus and realize they had more free time than expected.

3. November 28, 2011 to
March 22, 2013
•480 days
•7,293 records
•~15 activities/day
• 15-30 seconds per record

4. 8.27 hours of sleep per day
Sleep
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

5. Personal 30%
Discretionary 22%
Business 20%
Unpaid work 14%
Sleep 11%
Work 3%
0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% 35.00%

6. 8.27 hours of sleep per day
Sleep
40%
39%
38%
37%
36%
35%
34%
33%
32%
31%
30%
29%
Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

7. % activity per month
40.00%
35.00%
30.00%
25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
12/1/2011 1/1/2012 2/1/2012 3/1/2012 4/1/2012 5/1/2012 6/1/2012 7/1/2012 8/1/2012 9/1/2012 10/1/201211/1/201212/1/2012 1/1/2013 2/1/2013
Business Discretionary Personal
Sleep Unpaid work Work

8. 10
20
30
40
70
80
90
50
60
0
11/27/2011
12/18/2011
1/8/2012
Business
1/29/2012
2/19/2012
3/11/2012
4/1/2012
4/22/2012
Discretionary
5/13/2012
6/3/2012
6/24/2012
7/15/2012
Personal
8/5/2012
8/26/2012
Sleep
9/16/2012
10/7/2012
10/28/2012
11/18/2012
12/9/2012
Unpaid work
12/30/2012
1/20/2013
2/10/2013
Work
3/3/2013

9. Business
~44 hours / week
Build: 13 hours (29%)
Connect: 9 hours (21%)
Earn: 22 hours (50%)

10. 60
Business
50
40
30
20
10
0
Business - Build Business - Connect Business - Earn Work

11. Discretionary
• In 2012: 1562 hours, or 65 days, or > 2
months (17%)
• Social: 729 hours
• Productive: 506 hours
• Play: 231 hours
• Other: 94 hours

12. Discretionary - Social 43%
Discretionary - Productive 33%
Discretionary - Play 19%
Discretionary - Other 5%
0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00%

13. Total
Discretionary - Social
Discretionary - Writing
Discretionary - Read - Fiction
Discretionary - Read - Nonfiction
Discretionary - Other
Discretionary - Relax
Discretionary - Family
Discretionary - Play - Other
Discretionary - Emacs
Discretionary - Gardening
Discretionary - Read - Blogs
Discretionary - Play - Final Fantasy
Discretionary - Latin
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Batman
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Lord of the Rings
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Indiana Jones
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Harry Potter
Discretionary - Travel
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Pirates
Discretionary - Tracking
Discretionary - Sewing
Discretionary - Harry Potter
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Star Wars
Discretionary - Play - Nethack
Discretionary - Play - Katamari Forever
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Heroica
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900

14. Total
Discretionary - Read - Nonfiction
Discretionary - Relax
Discretionary - Play - Other
Discretionary - Play - Final Fantasy
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Batman
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Lord of the…
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Indiana…
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Harry Potter Total
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Pirates
Discretionary - Harry Potter
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Star Wars
Discretionary - Play - Nethack
Discretionary - Play - Katamari Forever
Discretionary - Play - LEGO Heroica
0 20 40 60 80 100 120

15. 80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Discretionary - Other Discretionary - Play
Discretionary - Productive Discretionary - Social

16. Unpaid work
In 2012: 628 hours, or 1.7 hours per day
(7%, vs 14% OECD 2011)

17. 0
1
2
3
5
6
7
8
9
10
4
11/27/2011
12/4/2011
12/11/2011
12/17/2011
12/25/2011
1/2/2012
1/14/2012
1/22/2012
1/28/2012
2/4/2012
2/12/2012
2/27/2012
3/10/2012
3/18/2012
4/1/2012
4/25/2012
4/30/2012
5/6/2012
5/13/2012
5/26/2012
6/3/2012
6/6/2012
6/15/2012
6/22/2012
6/30/2012
7/8/2012
7/22/2012
8/10/2012
8/19/2012
9/1/2012
Cooking
9/12/2012
9/27/2012
10/7/2012
10/17/2012
10/26/2012
11/11/2012
12/1/2012
12/8/2012
12/16/2012
12/28/2012
12/31/2012
1/7/2013
1/13/2013
1/23/2013
1/26/2013
2/4/2013
2/11/2013
2/21/2013
2/25/2013
3/3/2013
3/16/2013
3/22/2013

18. Things I learned
Tracking time helps me focus
I have more time than I think
I have more room to relax
Next things I’m trying:
Tracking predictions/time estimates
Tracking time at finer levels of detail
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