So I have no idea how it fits into the GTD flow of things, but surely there must be some way to integrate overall “efficiency” into your every day process of things … whether at home or at work.

God knows when I get home I have a variety of things … but at the end of the evening, where has all my (expletive) time gone?

Slimtimer.com is meant to be used to keep track of time so consultants, team managers and members etc can keep track of their hours.

Quite frankly, its also a cool way of monitoring exactly what you’re doing, so you’re able to monitor your own efficiency.

Sort of an auto-efficiency tool, if you will.

As with all things, your own diligence in keep up with the tool is directly proportional to its usefulness — wordy translation: if you use it, it becomes useful.

But, slimtimer is super easy to use, and through its Ajax-y interface (how web2.0) updates itself minute to minute and hour by hour through every single “thing” you want to track.

For example, I decided to track, certain “actions” I’m liable to do this evening.

“goof off”, “surf web”, “sort through inbox” (hello GTD!), “read internal medicine” and so on.
By clicking on an “open timer” link, a separate pop up will go up, with all of the tasks you’re interested in; of course, you’re able to add new tasks at any time by clicking “alt-a”, and “tags” as well.  But, by simply CLICKING on that task you want to keep track of, the timer will start going up.  And CLICKING it again turns it off — brilliant.

The best part of it is how its able to generate report so that you can literally see how productive or unproductive your evening was! The “Reports” section on the main web page is also able to digest your time by day, week, or month — but also, by the given activity that you’re interested in.

Want to know how many hours you wasted surfing the web last week?(if that was an interest you diligently kept track of — and its easy to do), simply run the report, and select “week” and you task!

Yes, I suppose I am a glutton for punishment.
Who really wants to know how unproductive their time really was?

On the other hand, a tool like this can easily tell you where you’re WASTING you’re time — and quantify it!
But on the flip side, it can also tell you how you’re really dividing your time, and whether you’re really allotting your time efficiently.  Did you really spend as much time reading that report as you thought?  How about working on that web development?  Versus watching television?

You might be surprised.

I was!

Two huge thumbs up to SlimTimer and all new tools like it — from a GTD perspective.