Interstitial Journaling: A New Way To Track Your Time
By: Dominggo Mau
Tags: Time Tracking, Time Management, Journaling, Productivity Tips, Productivity Hacks

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Introduction

👋Hi Guys, today I’m back with another one, at this chance I want to share to you a new Time Tracking/Journaling method that have been popping off on social media, blogs, YouTube etc.

📜This method is called Interstitial Journaling, this is a method of Time Tracking/Journaling that will help you document and track your time by writing a journal.

My Experience

⚙I have been using this method for the past week, and it has totally changed the way of my work and it has also change the way I see and value my time.

How It Works And How You Can Use It

🚀So how this how this works is like this, at the start of the day you will grab a piece of paper or open a blank page on your note taking app and then every time you do something you will document it by writing it down and by adding a timestamp to it.

Here’s an example of my interstitial journal today👇

6:00 AM — Just woke up feeling energized to start the day 6:45 AM — Currently writing a book review for “The Naked Diplomat” 7:52 AM — Just finished writing a Book Review for “The Naked Diplomat” 8:00 AM — Just finished breakfast, the breakfast was drinking my milk and eating some bread 8:32 AM — Uploaded a Instagram Story to promote my Book Review 9:00 AM — Starting the To-Do List UI design project 12:30 PM — Just finished the UI design project 1:00 PM — Just posted the UI design project on Instagram 2:00 PM — Grandma just came back from the hospital after the pinched nerve operation at Meilia hospital, Cibubur 2:30 PM — Currently organizing my email and notes 2:50 — Drinking ice water for relaxing 3:00 — Brainstorming Content Ideas, so I don’t get stuck again

📝So basically you will just “Document” what you are spending your time on during the day.

Log Of The Day

🧾This method can help your productivity and time management a lot because, if you document and write all of the tasks that you do right you will have this kind of “LOG OF THE DAY” and this log of the day contains what you are doing at a specific time.

⌚Now you can use this ‘LOG OF THE DAY” to analyze how your time was spent, and what tasks did you finish this day. This method can help you reflect on the day, and if there’s a problem on your workflow you can easily change it or find a solution for it because all of your time during the day is documented.

📝💻You can use this method in any format, it does not matter if you use this method on paper, digitally or something else. The important thing to to document your use of times well.

Closing Remarks

🧪So yeah I just wanted to share this little Productivity tip that maybe you can use to improve your productivity.

🗣This article was inspired by Shu Omi, I was inspired to share this method to me because he made a video on it, so make sure to check his video out for more information about this method.

🎉Thank you for reading until the end, I hope this piece of writing can maybe be beneficial in any way or even helpful. Once again thank you and I will see you in the next one bye! Have a nice day.