🖨 Print an incremental time tracker

Productivity expert and best-selling author Laura Vanderkam reminds us how important it is to be mindful of our time:

"Time is like moving water. Moving water moves you along with it. It keeps moving no matter what you do. Because of that, it is easy to spend time mindlessly, focused only on the particular rock or eddy hurtling you around at the moment. It is hard to even fathom the water behind you, what is now water under the bridge as they say.

...No one can stop time. No one can even slow it down. But being mindful of those hours as the ever-rolling stream moves along can change the experience of daily life. Documenting hours can also make memories more accessible. They are no longer quite so forgotten."

Track your time to understand it

She recommends time-tracking as an exercise to understand how you're really spending your time. Once you know where your time is going, she explains, you're in a better position to adjust so your priorities get the time they deserve. You might see a lot of wasted time or minutes and hours going into unimportant details. But you might find you're doing more than you think on what matters most to you. Even a week of time-tracking can bring some helpful revelations!

A printable for time-tracking

You can track your time digitally, of course. If you'd prefer a paper time tracker, here's how to make one:

1. Open your Teamup calendar and toggle all sub-calendars "off" or hidden from view. Or, use this widget to create a blank calendar. 
2. In the Settings, go to Date + Time and adjust the visible hours to show the hours you want to track:
     
3. Switch to a calendar view with a time grid (e.g. Day, Multi-Day, Week).
4. Adjust the calendar resolution to give adequate space for recording activities. 
5. Print and use as a time tracker. 

Printable calendar examples for time tracking

Here's an undated, single-day time tracker. To print your own, download the PDF: Undated-Single Day Time Tracker.pdf   

You can make different versions, depending on how much room you need to record each day's events and tasks. Here's a three-day version. To make your own, use Multi-day view, toggle all sub-calendars off, and save to PDF. 

🔗 Learn more: grab a free holiday printable planner, view more free printable calendar templates, or get details about printing a Teamup calendar; more tips on making your own printable calendars and planners; see how to create a free printable monthly planner, print a full year's calendar, or print in eco mode.