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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5392 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 9 of 31 24 November 2014 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I use the ATracker app for iPhone which I like a lot.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 10 of 31 24 November 2014 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I track stuff in a spreadsheet. I keep one sheet for each month. Each activity gets its
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 31 25 November 2014 at 12:10am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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My approach is nearly identical to Sabotai's:
15-minute chunk, round down, keeping track of my languages in my notebook where a vertical line equals 15 minutes (every fifth chunk is diagonal and crosses the previous four lines...), e.g. Ga R |||| A || (Gaeilge - reading 60 min. "analysis" 30 min) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4008 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 12 of 31 25 November 2014 at 2:58am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
+1. I would love to have something similar to the 6WC Bot year around 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 13 of 31 27 November 2014 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Sorry about posting a topic and running off, but I've been doing 12-hour shifts at work these days and have only been home to sleep (that's a good thing, since I can sure use that sweet, sweet overtime money).
Writing a tweet to log your activity seems inconvenient. Also I'm allergic to Twitter.
Well, it seems sort of counterproductive to use a pen and paper to log "Spent two hours graphing the percentage of language learning time spent on Anki repetitions over the last three months".
This does not seem to have an iOS app, which makes it inconvenient for me, but thanks for the tip!
Thank you! I'm gonna try this one. Edited by Ari on 27 November 2014 at 6:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Fenn Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4892 days ago 51 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 14 of 31 27 November 2014 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I use an app called Toggl (no i didnt miss an e) Its simple, gives you 'titles' and logs
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| epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3883 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 31 28 November 2014 at 10:10am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I began using an app last year. I have used it nearly every day and track everything... all 24 hours.
Time Meter is fast and quick to access with great searching and summarising capability. Much better suited than Excel because it is always at hand. I just re-read your post and you said you're an iOS user. So I can't help you there! However, I can offer you some generalised advice that directly applies to language learning: ----- Unless there are radical changes to your lifestyle, tracking your time for one week would be enough to extrapolate for future weeks. My monthly totals are almost always the same as the weekly ones * 4.33. ----- I generally do about 12 distinct things every day and routine largely dictates about 6-8 of those. This goes to show how important integrating language learning into your daily routine is. ----- And like tracking one's expenses for the first time, it provides a level of detail you could never had estimated by yourself. The very act of tracking makes you very aware of where the hours go, even if you never looked at the records. I recently decided to stop tracking for a week to make sure I hadn't developed some sort of unhealthy, compulsive habit but I found that the tracking process helped me value the hours I had, held me accountable to my goals (quantitatively, at least), and provided me with proof that I had done enough work (university at that point) and could take some much needed time off without guilt. I can live just fine without it, but I do like looking at data and stats so the fact that it's data about me makes it all the more interesting :) Also, I spend at most 60-120 seconds doing all of this every day. It only takes a few short seconds whenever I start doing something else. Even if I forget all day, it only takes a few minutes to reconstruct a rough estimate of the things I did. Edited by epictetus on 28 November 2014 at 10:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 16 of 31 28 November 2014 at 10:36am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
The thought of turning on and off a tracker everytime I change activity would drive me mental! For languages I don't have a time tracking problem. When I watch a movie, the length is already annotated for me. Anki keeps track of the time I spend and if I read I glance at the clock when I start and end. For the 6WC I twitter the bot and for the Super Challenge I twitter the bot. If I wasn't doing either of these I would simply ask myself if I've done something in each language today. I believe in KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) for everything. I think people can get a bit to anal about this whole goal tracking nonsense. It is going to take you between 2-20 years to get to a decent level at a language, so what is the point of tracking 2 minutes over 20 years? Once you've developed the habit of doing some study everyday, the rest will take care of itself. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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