Did you Get Things Done? Measuring productivity with RescueTime.

Last time I men­tioned this great little Two Minute timer to help you man­age your GTD Processing.

Well, that’s great for when you’re actu­ally hard at work and try­ing to be pro­duct­ive, but what about after­wards — when you want to know just what you spent your time doing (or not doing!).

• Do you trust your memory to remem­ber what you worked on?
• Was Twit­ter the culprit?
• How about surf­ing all those blogs?

Ok, those were my ques­tions but lucky for me, Res­cue­Time can answer them.

After a quick (and free) signup, you down­load and install the Res­cue­Time cli­ent (Win­dows / Mac / Linux !!! ), and get back to work.

Res­cue­Time also has a busi­ness pack­age that tracks many users and groups, but that costs. The indi­vidu­al user track­ing is free.

So, after a few hours, log into your Res­cue­Time dash­board and review your pro­gress. For the first few days, you’ll likely spend a bunch of time assign­ing tags and cat­egor­ies to vari­ous applic­a­tions mon­itored by the Res­cue­Time cli­ent. Per­severe, because after you’ve made those assign­ments, you’ll be bet­ter able to track your applic­a­tion usage.

But rather than go through all the fea­tures, check out the product tour, and learn for your­self. I’m find­ing it interesting…though I’m not sure if it’s telling me any­thing I did­n’t already know. Using this in a work­group situ­ation would be inter­est­ing though 🙂