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Dec
Dec
‘Bubble Timer’ Waste of Time
My partner and I are always looking for ways to make our time management easier to… manage. Today looking through the Web 2.0 directory I came across Bubble Timer. Bubble Timer lets you manage your time down to 15 minutes based on little check boxes. I like this idea because it is a simple way to quickly review your schedule and forces you to manage your time more effectively. However, it seems to me that you would need a row JUST for Bubble Timer… think about it.
Instead, try Google Calendar – it is just like Microsoft Outlook or Entourage, except it is web based so you can access it from anywhere.
I find that one way to boost productivity is to limit my really important tasks to one or two per day and accomplish them before 11:00 AM. Its amazing how much time we can all spend wasting time avoiding the things we do not want to do!
Why does it seem like you’d need a row just for BubbleTimer? Every couple of hours, you open the BubbleTimer tab and click a few bubbles. It should take about 30 seconds. If you spend more than 4 or 5 minutes with BubbleTimer a day then you are doing something wrong. It’s hard to imagine spending any less time on time management then you’d spend with BubbleTimer and not being pretty inefficient with how you are spending your time.
Thanks,
Sean
I absolutely disagree. If you use BubbleTimer right, it takes about 3 minutes a day and can save a lot of time, because you can easily identify waste of time..
I use BubbleTimer, and I do have a row I call “organizing” which applies to anything related to time management or physical tidying or sorting of anything. When I was first setting up BubbleTimer, sure, I spent several time bubbles setting it up. But because I’m tracking it, it didn’t take long before I started reducing the time spent merely organizing, in favour of actually doing the things I intend to do!
I do also use Google Calendar to plan my day, but I haven’t had much success with it alone. BubbleTimer reminds me that every block of time can be put towards something important, helping me develop the diligence to follow my plans.