I track all my time on my PC with 15m granularity.
I have done this for 3 years since I started freelance work.
I have my own highly hierachical structure of cost centers from which I generate TeX invoices.
I could give you a lot of common task times. But these obviously are mostly about surfing, reading, office work, invoice...
Examples:
write invoices: 1h/month
time tracking: 15m/day (including all time tracking for principals)
web surfing: 9h/month (not including research-like browsing which is 5h/month and not including lesswrong which has had a significant impact recently that I added a new cost center for it)
family budget: 2h/month
paperwork: 1h/week
I also track private projects. One example is a trading card game with scientific facts which I created for my children—this took 110h in all including research, images.test games, talks to teachers.
My wife is a living timetable and drives a very elaborate time management regime (which is helpful if you have four children).
She seems to exactly know how long ‘common tasks’ take. We plan the following times:
laundry: (6m plus 10m/person)/day
cooking: 1h/day
fruit basket: 2m/person/day
daily house cleanup: 20m/day
prepare breakfast: 15m
meal preparation and cleanup (2x/day): 30m/day
bath a child: 15m
bed ritual: 15m/child
and then there are lots of planned times for educational topics, events, courses, …
Note that that these times are the result of discipline and routine and you shouldn’t assume that you can reach or beat them easily.
I track all my time on my PC with 15m granularity. I have done this for 3 years since I started freelance work. I have my own highly hierachical structure of cost centers from which I generate TeX invoices. I could give you a lot of common task times. But these obviously are mostly about surfing, reading, office work, invoice...
Examples:
write invoices: 1h/month
time tracking: 15m/day (including all time tracking for principals)
web surfing: 9h/month (not including research-like browsing which is 5h/month and not including lesswrong which has had a significant impact recently that I added a new cost center for it)
family budget: 2h/month
paperwork: 1h/week
I also track private projects. One example is a trading card game with scientific facts which I created for my children—this took 110h in all including research, images.test games, talks to teachers.
My wife is a living timetable and drives a very elaborate time management regime (which is helpful if you have four children). She seems to exactly know how long ‘common tasks’ take. We plan the following times:
laundry: (6m plus 10m/person)/day
cooking: 1h/day
fruit basket: 2m/person/day
daily house cleanup: 20m/day
prepare breakfast: 15m
meal preparation and cleanup (2x/day): 30m/day
bath a child: 15m
bed ritual: 15m/child
and then there are lots of planned times for educational topics, events, courses, …
Note that that these times are the result of discipline and routine and you shouldn’t assume that you can reach or beat them easily.