Ok, this one happens a lot. I was filling out the form that we have set up in our group to add items to our timesheet. It occurred to me that I was currently filling out an item that is a repeating task, so I would probably want to use the same time periods that I came up with for any other service requests like it, so I created a screen print and saved it to a PDF. While in the process of doing that, I noticed that my saved folders were mislabeled, so I spent some minutes relabeling and reorganizing the PDF folders. Then I went back to what I was originally doing, saving a copy of my Clarity settings for EPOL SRs, so that I don’t have to spent time figuring out how much time I think these projects should take. Then I saved that off to my Manuals & Info folder, and set up a shortcut to it from the EPOL jobs folder. Oh yeah, and somewhere right after that, I think, I had to spend some minutes in my Planner software, updating messages and links.
While all of this in itself wasn’t very long, I often lose many minutes doing stuff like this. I can easily lose a chuck of an hour doing these small tasks. There’s no place to catalog these under in the Timesheet, but the time must be tracked somehow. This time, the lost time was actually directly related to the work at hand. Sometimes, it’s not: sometimes I spend a few moments looking up a word or person, sometimes I Google for software, usually to use at work but not always, or sometimes I spend many moments looking up music. Whether work related or no, there are not categories for this, so I can’t really accurately show what was done in my day.
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