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Re:I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the who... by OJFord on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:48AM (#25631957)
Should 'travel' really be a category? Won't 'time spent in buses/cars/planes etc', unless driving them, always also be time spent 'idle', 'procrastinating', 'culture>books', or one of the others?

This sort of thing is what always stops me or is the problem I hit in categorising anything. Labels/tags are the usual solution, but that doesn't really work in this case, since you can't then say how you spent your time using a 365 days per 360 degree pie chart or whatever.

Re:I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the who... by AriseAndPass on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:30AM (#25633547)
She did actually use tags, not mutually exclusive categories:

> Another cool feature of the way I was logging my data was that I could log more than one activity into a single time slot (walking and listening to a podcast is a classic). This means that the total time spent on all activities sums up to more than 365 days - you can see this as 'extra days' on the plot above. Turns out that this year, I had 395 surplus hours or 16.5 surplus days. I hope I didn't spend them on human function.