Productivity Tip
This is less of a tip and more a of my own metaphorical “Kit up the Back Side” that happened to me a few weeks ago.
While looking for some software to audit the applications i had on my Mac came across Slie.
Now slife doesn’t audit apps it actually monitors and records the activity of applications that you use.
What makes slife so useful is that it renders the data about your application usage in a timeline representing the day, so you get an idea of which application consumed most of your time.
My expectation of the slife results for a common day would be some email and browser activity in the morning followed my some hard core TextMate activity up until lunch where email, soduko and safari would be used, come the afternoon another good block of TextMate, sprinkle a bit of NetNewsWirs across the entire day and there you go, another productive day from me 
Well this is all good an well but the reality is somewhat different, the results actually show that i spend much more time in mail and safari and a hell of a let less time in TextMate, for me this is a real kick up the back side! I value my time and investing so much of it in “Surfing” or “Emailing Friends” is not a good us of my valuable time.
I now run slife all the time, and review my own activity at least on day a week.
Net result : I now spend more time “working” so i can get my task done sooner… which gives me more time to surf
