The Professional Crastinator and His Record Keeping

I've been working on data entry for the last couple of days.  Really, I was supposed to have it done by, say, the 3rd of January.  Instead, I have procrastinated as if I was getting paid to, and I'm only getting somewhere today.

I've always liked keeping track of things, but I haven't always kept up with it, especially the past couple years.  This year, since I've been a lazy, unemployed slacker I decided I might as well log all the wasted hours of movie-watching, reading, exercise, etc. that I'm doing.  The secret goal my good self has is that my bad self will see how atrociously my precious time is spent and slowly, subtly, surreptitiously begin to weed itself out of my existence.  Maybe even bad self will want a job someday.

So, I've been scribbling down most of my "significant" activities throughout the days since January 1 in a little yellow notepad.  I think I've settled on a handful of basic categories (mental, detrimental, physical, spiritual, social, and sleep) and would like to henceforth divide my main activities into said categories.


Up to this point the majority of my records only show TV and movie watching, reading, running and workouts, and a little bit of other stuff like sports watching.  But I'd like to start keeping track of time spent with family and friends (like planned time or game time or the like), journaling and writing, and ideally, work and God time eventually.  I'll have to add this blogging time in.  It will be in my mental category.  Ha.

So now you know.  Here's an example of the graphs* I find helpful.  They are the first five weeks of this year, by time spent (in hours) in main categories.  (Note: Week 1 is where detrimental was almost a full-time job.)  (And EDIT:  it doesn't seem to be animated in the post itself, but it's a .gif so if you click it you can see the animation....)

I'm curious if anyone else I know does stuff like this.  I suppose keeping track of exercise, like miles run or something, is more common (I am starting another daytum account* for that, too, and keep track of it at dailymile.com, bee tee dub; exciting, I know), but maybe not so many people keep such ridiculous records?

*I'm using daytum.com, a useful, albeit not-updated-anymore, site for my online record keeping.  It has a few ways to visually illustrate your records (charts, timelines, etc.) that I like.  It took me a while to set mine up the way I like it, with the right categories and items and accuracy when displayed by a certain time frame, but I think I finally got it.