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