When I was in California I noticed that Benja Fallenstein seemed to have a much better thought out way of using TagTime than I did. I asked him for more details by email, and he gave me permission to share the below with all of you:
Most importantly, I make sure that all my tags fit on a single screen on my phone; and that most of my pings need to get only two of these tags: (a) a category, and (b) a Liekert scale rating from 1 to 7. (1 = very bad; 2 = bad; 3 = neutral to bad; 4 = neutral; 5 = neutral to good; 6 = good; 7 = very good)
I have TagTime linked to Beeminder, which lets me see the trends at a glance. I don’t currently have any of them linked to goals which are difficult to meet.
Some goals linked to TagTime are: working hours; object-level working hours; sleep; missed pings; procrastination; “bad” (1-2), “neutral” (3-5), “good” (6-7).
I have it set to ping every 30 minutes on average and this works for me.
My categories are, tagtime tag first, meaning in parentheses:
anki (Miri: Anki)
l (Leisure)
m (Miri: Other)
m:adm (Miri: Admin)
m:fai (Miri: FAI research)
m:mth (Miri: Other math)
m:o (Miri: Outreach)
m:str (Miri: Strategic research)
mis (Missed ping, can be used together with most likely category, or by itself if I don’t have a good guess)
mp (MSc / PhD)
p (Personal: Other)
p:adm (Personal: Admin)
pcr (Procrastination)
s (Semimiri: Other)
s:ag (Semimiri: Agentiness)
s:gtd (Semimiri: GTD, i.e. Getting Things Done system)
s:res (Semimiri: Other research)
s:tm (Semimiri: Time management)
slp (Sleep)
Additional tag:
sdy (Study—used together with a category tag)
I have Anki cards for training the meaning of these tags.
I’m considering subdividing leisure into l:fic (fiction), l:soc (social), l:par (Skyping with parents), and l (other).
When I was in California I noticed that Benja Fallenstein seemed to have a much better thought out way of using TagTime than I did. I asked him for more details by email, and he gave me permission to share the below with all of you:
Most importantly, I make sure that all my tags fit on a single screen on my phone; and that most of my pings need to get only two of these tags: (a) a category, and (b) a Liekert scale rating from 1 to 7. (1 = very bad; 2 = bad; 3 = neutral to bad; 4 = neutral; 5 = neutral to good; 6 = good; 7 = very good)
I have TagTime linked to Beeminder, which lets me see the trends at a glance. I don’t currently have any of them linked to goals which are difficult to meet.
Some goals linked to TagTime are: working hours; object-level working hours; sleep; missed pings; procrastination; “bad” (1-2), “neutral” (3-5), “good” (6-7).
I have it set to ping every 30 minutes on average and this works for me.
My categories are, tagtime tag first, meaning in parentheses:
anki (Miri: Anki) l (Leisure) m (Miri: Other) m:adm (Miri: Admin) m:fai (Miri: FAI research) m:mth (Miri: Other math) m:o (Miri: Outreach) m:str (Miri: Strategic research) mis (Missed ping, can be used together with most likely category, or by itself if I don’t have a good guess) mp (MSc / PhD) p (Personal: Other) p:adm (Personal: Admin) pcr (Procrastination) s (Semimiri: Other) s:ag (Semimiri: Agentiness) s:gtd (Semimiri: GTD, i.e. Getting Things Done system) s:res (Semimiri: Other research) s:tm (Semimiri: Time management) slp (Sleep)
Additional tag:
sdy (Study—used together with a category tag)
I have Anki cards for training the meaning of these tags.
I’m considering subdividing leisure into l:fic (fiction), l:soc (social), l:par (Skyping with parents), and l (other).