RescueTime

What it is

RescueTime automatically records time spent in applications and websites. Paid plans add detailed reports, goals, alerts, distraction-blocking Focus Sessions, and optional project timesheets and billable-rate reporting.

Ways to use it

Ideas from real executive operations work. Take the ones that fit.

• Collect one representative week of time data before changing the executive's schedule.
• Compare meeting load with the hours available for focused work.
• Run a Focus Session that blocks selected sites and apps during a priority task.
• Add offline meetings and calls so the daily timeline is not limited to screen work.
• Review patterns with the user and agree on one calendar or workflow experiment.