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I’ve always frowned upon the whole idea of tracking your time in detail. As useful as it might be to know you spend 40% of your time at work, 5% of your time commuting and 10% of your life on Facebook, if you do genuinely need to know that information there are deeper issues to resolve. Such data might reveal to you where time is being wasted, and that by taking a different route to work and paying less attention to Facebook, you may resolve that problem. But it doesn’t resolve why you’ve got that problem in the first place (anyone want to suggest what the root cause may be?).

A couple of years ago I shared my top ten favorite productivity blogs. However a lot has changed since then. Sites have shifted topic or died away, and new ones have appeared on the scene. I avoid following hundreds of blogs and I don’t even use an RSS feeder, so to keep me focused I regularly identify a handful of sites that interest me. With that in mind here is my current top ten of productivity blogs.

Last week I came across a great post by Glen of the PluginID blog discussing five ideas that he has implemented to get more done, and it gave me the idea to share some of my own. As Glen said on his site about his own methods, the ones I’ve detailed below have not only helped me to be more productive, they’ve allowed me to enjoy what I do more. I’ve like to read your thoughts on these. Why not share your own ideas in the comments?

Organize IT recap for 12th June 2009.

Productivity. I still cling to that word here at Organize IT even though the whole getting things done fad has long since died down. But time and time again nowadays I read about negative posts on the subject (productivity is dead!). And each time, there seems to be an opposing idea of exactly what it means. Today I want to explain just what this whole productivity thing means to me. Why not share your own thoughts in the comments?