3 hours ago, I decided that I would track all time in my day.  Sleep, eating, coding, IMing.  Everything.  I feel this will help me track the things that are eating away at my time in a negative way.  I started this at 10:30PM on Tuesday, August 5th and plan on doing this until I go to bed next Wednesday, August 12.  I then plan on doing this every 4 weeks.  My goal is to track my weaknesses in my time management, and hopefully eliminate them.  Tracking them on an interval of 4 weeks should show me productivity gains over time as well.

In my spare time (is there such thing?), I plan on making a super simple web application that makes tracking and logging this as easy as possible.  However, if there is already a site out there that is free and does this in an intuitive manner, please leave the URL in a comment, as I would love to use it.

Has anyone else done something like this?  What was learned from it?  Am I wasting my time?  In the end, I’m hoping this will open my eyes to what is really going on with my time, and help me become a more efficient person.

Update:

I am now using my new iPhone to track my time.  The Voice Memos app is awesome.  Hit record, say what I’m doing, hit stop.  Already records the time on it.  Still going strong!