How I spent my time in the Spring 2024 semester

At the end of every semester, I look at the data in my Toggl reports to see how I spent my time.

Here’s how I spent my time in Spring 2024:

• Conferences: 10.39%
• ACI Avances: 9.59%
• Research proposals: 9.50%
• Service: 9.40%
• Teaching: 8.80%
• Papers: 7.84%
• Admin: 6.92%
• Research project 1: 4.18%
• Teaching TU: 4.08%
• Learning: 3.88%
• PhD project 1: 2.64%
• Meetings: 2.16%
• PhD project 2: 2.15%
• Meeting TU: 2.12%
• Planning: 2.06%
• Research: 2.05%
• Research project 2: 1.95%
• Blog: 1.88%
• PhD project 3: 1.86%
• Promotion: 1.63%
• PhD project 4: 1.51%
• PhD project 5: 1.05%
• PhD project 6: 0.74%
• Cooperation: 0.52%
• PhD project 7: 0.37%
• Research project 3: 0.35%
• PhD project 8: 0.21%
• Without project: 0.16% (sorry, not sure what happened here…)
• Email + admin: 0.01% (I’ve been mostly tagging email as part of the projects they belong to)

Here are a few observations from the data:

• It has been a busy semester and I have worked a lot (and also, a lot of hours)
• Teaching has taken a bit less time (as percentage, at least, not sure how the total numbers pan out) as I do not have any new course to develop this semester.
• I’ve ramped up the time spent on writing proposals, as that is where I am at in this season.
• Avances took a lot of time this semester, as we are applying to indexations and revamped our website.
• All in all, I am quite happy with how I planned and spent my time this semester.