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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6380 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1 of 31 23 November 2014 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
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I've been thinking about logging the time I spend on different kinds on learning activities, like Anki, watching TV, reading, shadowing, etc. I'd want to get an overview of how I spend my learning time and how much learning time I can cram into each day. Has anyone done this? What are some good methods? Preferably I'd like a good app (iOS) to help me. Anyone got any tips? I'm under the impression that people do stuff like this for the various challenges I see around this place (I've never participated myself), so presumably there are people with experience here.
EDIT: I'm using a meditation app called Insight Timer which gives me badges and milestones and it's amazing how such a small amount of gamification makes me sit down for a meditation session even when I don't feel like it, just because I don't want to break my "30 days with a session" streak. Stuff like that would be great. Edited by Ari on 23 November 2014 at 7:03pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3484 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 31 24 November 2014 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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I'm doing the November 6 weeks challenge and there's a Twitter bot you tweet at to track
your study time. I'm finding it very helpful (for instance, I do flashcards when I'm in the street –queues, bus, etc.–) and it's very convenient to just tweet something like "7 mins #japanese #anki" and have it logged. Then there's a website where you can see your stats and how much time you have spent on each activity, or per day. I wish this bot were enabled permanently and not just during the 6 weeks challenges… 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3623 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 3 of 31 24 November 2014 at 1:25am | IP Logged |
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What's wrong with a pen and paper and a clock? That's how geniuses did it before the twentieth century.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4928 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 31 24 November 2014 at 1:33am | IP Logged |
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I can't give a specific iOS app recommendation, but I van recommend a type of app that should help - a general purpose database app.
I use an app called Memento on android that I really like. It allows me to set up a database with pretty much any type of field and create forms for data entry. Once I have a populated database, I can create all sorts of graphs and reports based on whatever search criteria I give it. Initial setup took some time and learning, but it's become a handy tool. I would guess there's something similar for iOS. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5680 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 5 of 31 24 November 2014 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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I keep the math simple by trying to do things in 15 minute blocks. If that's not feasible, I'll combine things. For example, if I only spend 3 minutes doing reps in Anki (because I might only have 25 cards to do), then I'll do 12 minutes of something else to give me 15 minutes (usually typing up sentences or editing audio to make more cards - I count the time because I'm still reviewing the material).
I'm pretty strict with the timing. I always round down so if I've been doing something for 22 minutes, it still just counts as 15 until I hit minute 30. I generally just rely on a clock to keep track of time. I have a notebook I use to write entries. They'll look something like "11/23: Japanese: SRS X Subs2SRS XX I.Listening XX Grammar X" where each X represents 15 minutes. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6395 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 31 24 November 2014 at 8:25am | IP Logged |
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I like RescueTime though I don't use it anymore.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4807 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 7 of 31 24 November 2014 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
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I love the 6wc bot. It is awesome to see my disbalances during the 6wc, it is really a
good signal "Hey, you've been neglecting this or that" for me. Apart from the 6wc, I tried paper and pen. It worked but only for a short while because it was annoying to log and count everything so I might renew the habit if an easy app was available (thanks for the tips in this thread). What I found not to work for me for this kind of logging: -As sabotai makes the 15 minutes blocks, I tried pomodoro. It is awesome for some uses but for this, I couldn't keep going. -HabitRPG. Again, awesome for some things but I couldn't keep going for more than a few weeks. I obviously need some external "rules". "PUt in as much as you can", the only rule of 6wc, is better for me than my own daily goals. -paper and pen. Too much time, I need to do all the math alone. And I'm afraid I need the competition, even though in my case it is not about the top places, it is more about "Skip those two people during the weekend and keep on the spot for a week" sort of thing. I wonder. Perhaps an excel file could work nicely for that. You could put in the table anything you want and excel could do the counts for you. I might try that (as soon as I get my computer in a better shape and finally make those legally bought MS Office work) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4381 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 8 of 31 24 November 2014 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
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Sprachprofi has a tracking spreadsheet downloadable from her blog (here) which I have always admired from a distance, but never been disciplined to use myself.
I tried Rescuetime for a while but found it didn't really work for me because I could only use it on my personal computer and not my work one. I would love something like the 6WC bot which could be used all year round, as for some reason I find it much easier to tweet when I've done something than to log it on a spreadsheet. I guess it's because I can access Twitter no matter which device I am using, which isn't the same for modifying a spreadsheet. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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