- Planning: Start the day by extracting the most important activities from the Activity Inventory, and writing them in a list on your To Do Today Sheet. This is your Commitment for the day.
- Tracking: Once you've decided on the activities for the day, start your Pomodoro, and collect a small amount of process metrics, for example, count the number of times that you get interrupted.
- Recording: At the end of the day, file your daily observations on the Records sheet. If you tracked the number of interruptions, this number is saved here.
- Processing: After recording, convert the raw data into information. For example, you might calculate how many interruptions you get in an average 25-minute time quantum.
- Visualizing: Finally, you organize the information in a way that helps you see how to improve your process. This is basically a daily retrospective and when you acclimatize your working habits to your reality.
Currently, PwnTime doesn't have Activity Inventory functionality. I'm still exploring the necessity of doing this. What I do is simply writing down the tasks and the number of estimated Pomodoros. If I don't finish the task, it will remain in the list. The Android app I use has this functionality, and I find it tedious to going back and forth between the Activity Inventory and the To Do Today list. Maybe I'm still not methodical with the technique. Please let me know what your experience is.
I think PwnTime provides an excellent tool for tracking, recording, processing and visualizing. There are still a lot of improvement we need to. Right now we don't have interruption tracking. I'm not sure how important this is yet.
