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Time Tracking with Toggl

Posted on February 13, 2020November 4, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

I used Toggl in the last few days and wanted to share a few observations with you.

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At first, I used the web version. It is nice and works fine, but I closed it a few times by accident, or I couldn’t find it when I needed it. So I switched to the desktop version (but I still use the web version for reports).

The desktop version has a nice feature of tracking your idle time so you can decide whether it should be counted or not – very useful, as I regularly forget to switch it off.
Using Toggl helped me to understand better how I spent my time. It also encouraged me to look closer at my working habits.

During these few days I learned/realized a few things:

  • I often start a task and immediately lose focus and start doing something else (uh…).
  • I’m my worst enemy when it comes to distractions.
  • Looking at reports is like reality check and it helped me to realize which tasks did I really put a lot of effort into (vs. my perception of where I spent my time).
  • Based on the length of reported work periods I can see right now how fragmented my workday is (definitely a room for improvement here!).
  • Remembering to enter a new task into Toggle whenever I start working on something is irritating at first, but soon I got used to it.

All in all, during these 3 days I learned a lot about my working habits and found few improvement areas. My goal right now would be to concentrate for a longer time on one task.

Ah, and FYI I’m using the free version of Toggl.
P.S. I miss one functionality – setting a timer so Toggl could help me with timeboxing tasks. I need to use some other tool – e.g. https://www.timeanddate.com/timer/ . It would be more convenient to have it in one place.

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  • 2 thoughts on “Time Tracking with Toggl”

    1. Bar says:
      February 14, 2020 at 2:06 pm

      Have you tried http://wisetime.io/ ? It will automatically track your time, so It’s way better and convenient than any other tools like that.

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      1. Tomek Kaczanowski says:
        February 14, 2020 at 4:18 pm

        Nope, I haven’t tried it. Right now I’m happy with what I have.

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