Time
The first step in making more productive use of your time understands how you currently use it. It can be difficult to judge how much time you really spend on different tasks. There are many distractions on your computer that can take time away from productive work. How much time do you spend responding to email, or just surfing the Web, and how much do you spend on your important projects? A few minutes here and there adds up over a day or a week. One software package called TimeSprite records the title of the active window on your computer. You can then view a report of how much time you spent on different activities. Similar titles are automatically grouped together to provide a summary of your time. You can also define your own groups to refine the report. You can see the total time you spent on different activities, or view the time as a journal or daily or weekly timesheets.