Limit Time: Tell yourself to get off in a particular amount of time. There are several software to display an alarm after a given amount of time. Also take several breaks if your career depends on your presence online, like blogging or web-designing.
Pageaddict: This is a marvelous extension. It logs which site you visit, and how long you spend on it, and you can view all the statistics later in forms of tables and graphs. So if you unknowingly spend too much time on YouTube or the likes, you’ll know. You can also set certain domains as “Work Sites” and they won’t be counted. Your browsing data is private and is stored on your hard disk.
Links: http://pageaddict.com/ #The main website.
http://pageaddict.com/screenshots.html #Sample data display
You need to visit pageaddict.com after installing to see your data.
TimeTracker: This simple extension simply places a little timer in the status bar, and you can see how much time you’ve wasted today, and the average amount you spend on firefox in a day.
[TimeTracker at Mozilla Addons]
You can also try Usage Counter, which is slightly more advance but I don’t use it.
FoxyMeter: The tagline for this extension goes “How have you surfed” and it unobtrusively sits and reminds you just that. I suggest that everyone try this out, and you’ll be very surprised with just how many pages you surfed. My meter’s sitting right now at 1469 page loads at 113 page loads a day.
[FoxyMeter at Mozilla Addons]
ThumbStrips(Special Mention): I found this extension recently and it’s really nice to get a feel of the kind of websites that you’re visiting. It’s an extension that takes a screenshot of every website that you visit and saves it along with your history and you can see all the sites and get a good overview of where your time was going.
[I found this mentioned in Digital Inspiration]
Why install these addons?
Time is precious, that’s why. Also less time on your online life means more time for your offline one. And I assure you, an hour in the gym is much more gratifying than spending it idly browsing flickr or youtube, or other sites that go on and on. I’m not saying that it’s wrong to use those sites, I’m saying they never run out of content and more often than not, that time can be used for better purposes, and these extensions will help you see where your time is going. Ultimately, the last word is yours alone.
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Personally i think why pro bloggers are more into time wasting and then blogging about another post they read and were influenced which was about how not waste time is because they have everything at thier disposal 24×7.
ive a limited quota broadband which means i cant go crazy on website clicks and some heavy research and downloading/ feed reading in the day time, my happy hours are from 2am to 8am.
now that is real drudgery. I’d have to force myself to wake up just to do all my net related work in the free hour.
in a way its nice, helps me stick to a particular time of the day for the all the blogging related work and that i can schedule and note down work for the next free hour in the day time.
unlike with people who have high speed unlimited connection 24×7, which is why they take things for granted.
**http://www.productivity501.com/interview-biggest-time-waster/257/#comment-767
^^^ AKA get a bsnl 500 connection, you will life automatically fall into place.
I have to agree with this one.. You can go crazy browsing without realizing where you are going.. i feel that an unlimited connection leads you into more wastage of time..
honestly speaking you need to limit yourself. I for one find it difficult to get up at that odd hour to do all my feed reading and stuff like that..
but again there is no other option.. you have to multi task in this world.. i got my own college during the day.. so i have to figure out some worthwhile option to do all my blogging related activities..
dun b h8in on teh fang ;[
we dun h8 u :-*
Well,there are some very useful scripts to track how much time you are spending on various applications.They aren’t tough to write if you like python
for windows platform swaroopch has a tool
http://www.swaroopch.info/archives/2007/04/10/big-brother/
and if you want to try it out in linux and the data in ju stext files then you can see this link
http://www.theyagar.info/index.php/2007/04/14/big-brother-2/
although it has a ltfx dependency .
Great and really useful extensions.
Thanks.
Great addons. Trying out FoxyMeter. Thanks
indeed! thank you shankar, ramkarthik and taggy for the comments. muchos gracias!
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