Weekly Time Tracking that’s Optimized for Remote Work

How to track your time and take control of your schedule with Notion and Toggl

From one week to the next, millions of workers abruptly shifted to remote work, remote teaching, or remote learning. Many of us got thrown into a new work environment where many of the same performance expectations exist, but with entirely new physical and (lack of) social environments.

For freelancers and creative consultants, the concept of time-tracking is nothing new. Primarily used as a way to track time per client or per project, time-tracking can help all of us take control over our schedules, completely rethinking what days and weeks look like while we work in total or semi-isolation. I’ve found this Notion/Toggl mini-stack to be effective in learning how I work, without becoming an overbearing, unwieldy productivity workflow. I focus on Notion, but Toggl has an amazing list of integrations, so it’ll probably work with whatever platform you use to manage tasks.

Although time-tracking is rooted in an industrial-era race to increased production, it can take on a new meaning when the primary goal shifts to increasing our health, well-being, and building positive, sustainable habits. This period of remote work is an opportunity to own more hours of more days, through…