Do you really need this fine print? It sounds like this fine print about
only using timer data points would only be helpful if you were (a)
dishonest enough to enter fake data points, BUT (b) honest enough to abide
by the fine print! It sounds like (b) is true since you are apparently
willing to redo goals just because of your fine print. So are you really
worried about (a)? If you are willing to abide by the fine print, why not
just make the fine print say “no fake data points”?
Personally, I do this quite often (start doing a task but forget to start
the timer). As soon as I realize it, I typically (1) estimate the amount
of time I have already spent and enter a data point, and then (2) start the
timer. I always try to estimate (1) as accurately as I can; I don’t find
myself tempted to report inflated estimates. Over the long run, it
probably all averages out. Ideally, of course, I would always remember to
start the timer—and I do try to remember—but realistically, there will
always be times when I forget. In fact, the times when I forget are often
the times when I am being so productive/in the flow that I really want to
do the goal, or I have made the goal an automatic habit, and I just get
right on to doing it without remembering that I am supposed to track it!
That being the case, it seems particularly silly to penalize myself by
saying the work I did without the timer running doesn’t count, because I
want to encourage this sort of behavior.
If you are really worried about this, however, it is exactly what TagTime
is designed for: TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets | Messy Matters . You never have to
worry about remembering to start a timer, in exchange for a loss of
precision in measuring the amount of time spent doing any particular
thing. I find it works well for big goals, like spending 40 hours/week on
work, or 10 hours/week on reading or research or studying, but it doesn’t
work well for smaller goals like spending 30 minutes or 1 hour per week
doing something, because the variation is just too high. (You could have
TagTime ping you more frequently to get a higher resolution, but that just
starts to get annoying and disruptive.)
-Brent
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Pankaj More pankajmore@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Akratics!
I have set up some goals which are timer based. To prevent me from
entering any data which might be fake, I have setup the fine print on these
goals to say that only data points allowed are beedroid’s timer entry.
Now, when I start working on the goal, I usually forget to start the
timer. Does anyone else also have this problem? Since I cannot enter any
manual data, I have to redo the goal again after starting the timer. Any
suggestions please.
Thanks,
Pankaj
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