Any Good Programs to Enforce Time Management Rules?

[patriot29]

Does anyone know of any free programs to help enforce the time management aspect of Tim's book? That is, a program that would only allow you to open your email twice a day at certain times, for example?

[Marcie]

that sounds like a muse idea :)

[MariaG]

The Leechblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476) extension for Firefox allows you to set rules for which sites you are allowed to access at certain times. I've set mine to block pretty much any site I might go to out of reflex until the afternoon.

[patriot29]

maria-

thanks for the link. That is highly useful for distracting website. anything you know of just like that but for programs (e.g. email programs)? I suppose if I just used online email it would work for email too, but I like my email client...

marcie-

I personally don't think its such a good muse. for the time spent developing and marketing something like that, you could have already made much more money in other fields.

[Marcie]

maria-
marcie-

I personally don't think its such a good muse. for the time spent developing and marketing something like that, you could have already made much more money in other fields.

maybe you're right, I work with a lot of programmers so I was thinking someone who ejoys programming could do something like this...

[final_id]

I'm still looking. I'm anticipating entering Law School soon, and I understand that an eventual career in providing legal services will have a lot based on billable hours. At big corporate style law firms, don't they require that all the associates account for their time by the quarter-hour chunk? Emailing client X, 30 minutes, researching for client Y, 2 hours, etc. etc.. There must be something that will tell me which window on my computer was the top one when with mouse and keyboard interface going, and for how long.

There are a couple I have running right now. I got the Leechblock add-on for Firefox (careful, there are a couple of products with similar names) and I am running a time management thing called Time Track which I also first heard about here. But neither exactly fills the bill. Both are too general. I want a dead-specific reckoning, right down to time of day:

8:03 am: power up
8:07 am: Outlook opened; email titled "Regarding your Schmidt query" written
8:17 am: same email sent to Mr. John Jacob Jingleheimer *(total time open, 10 minutes)
8:19 am: two wordprocessing documents opened
9:22 am: first document saved as "Schmidt notes" *(total time open, 3 minutes)
9:23 am: second document becomes top wordprocessing document ...

etc.

See the gist of it? Then at the end of the day, click "report" and you get ...

Schmidt project:
emailing: 10 minutes
wordprocessing: 3 minutes
faxing:

etc.

[Batman]

Does anyone know of any free programs to help enforce the time management aspect of Tim's book? That is, a program that would only allow you to open your email twice a day at certain times, for example?

How about your brain? - I don't mean to be sarcastic but if you really can't muster the self control to not open your email...... :confused: