[Kindred]

If you need to block unproductive websites, check out LeechBlock for Firefox. It lets you set a limited amount of time per an interval for sites or a group of sites. In the case of this site, I have 15 minutes set for every 12 hours on stevepavlina.com and other productivity sites I visit.

I've been using RescueTime for ages, and it has done wonders to opening my eyes to where my time was going. I use to score a -1.5 daily and now a 1.0 is the norm (mind you, it took me over 8 months to get it consistently up here).

However, one of the things I don't like about RescueTime is that it's hard to get a picture of what my work day was like. Are unproductive tasks intertwined with what I'm doing, or am I failing to just get started on something?

I wrote a ghetto program to take a snapshot of my desktop every 5 minutes and save it into a folder with a timestamp. At the end of the day I spend 5 minutes going through all the snapshots like a movie to see where I can improve my work ethic.