Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German
| Message 1 of 11 06 May 2014 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
What are your favorite time tracking tools for various activities?
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Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4350 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 2 of 11 06 May 2014 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
If you mean measuring how much time one spends on an activity, I tend to use
gqTimer. It's originally meant for speedcubers, so
it has some functions such as calculating averages, means and standard distortions of various
amounts of times; storing last 30 sessions' results; or generating scrambles. But does just fine for
language learning, too. To get the total time, I just need to multiply the session mean by number of
times, that's the only inconvenience.
If you mean making sure an activity lasts a certain amount of time, Anki has an inbuilt timeboxing
function, otherwise there are multiple YouTube videos like "x minute countdown timer", often with
sound signals.
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Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German
| Message 3 of 11 06 May 2014 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
Ezy Ryder wrote:
If you mean measuring how much time one spends on an activity, I tend
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gqTimer. |
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Yes, I meant this kind of activity time tracker
Like the tools in
http://workawesome.com/software/web-based-time-tracking-soft ware
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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 4 of 11 06 May 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
I like the app ATracker.
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Mutant Groupie United States Joined 3912 days ago 45 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German
| Message 5 of 11 07 May 2014 at 12:21am | IP Logged |
I've been using the free app Toggl for my Android and so far I like it.
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yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 6 of 11 07 May 2014 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
Pen, paper, 6 columns- class, speaking, writing, reading, listening, total for that week.
Works for me and is energy saving to boot.
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Penelope Diglot Senior Member Greece Joined 3870 days ago 110 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English, French Studies: Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 7 of 11 07 May 2014 at 12:58pm | IP Logged |
Pen, paper and my watch. But I generally go by units (one unit per day etc.) and not by time spent on studying.
I really don't think in terms of time spent though, but on how much progress I've made or completed tasks.
Of course there must be a time goal at some point.
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LinguistRick Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4223 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: German
| Message 8 of 11 13 May 2014 at 12:50am | IP Logged |
I just use the timer on my iPhone. I set it anywhere between 15-30 min and I do my best to only dedicate time to
studying a particular language. When it goes off, I record it on Evernote or pen and paper. A simple method but it
works :)
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