Time management is something that’s required, but only few of us are successful in. For proper time management, shouldn’t you know how and where you spend your time in the first place? When it comes to sitting in front of your PC, time knows no bounds, especially while gaming. An hour seems like 10 minutes. Getting work done on your PC can be a harrowing task with all the distractions, depending on whether you’re having a productive day or not. From browsing absolute random videos on Youtube to playing the stupidest of online games. But the craziest of it all is, when asked about how you spent your time after a session, we’re usually unable to figure out exactly what we did and how one activity led to another.
Enter Slife. What this piece of software from Slife Labs aims to provide is a report on your usage and activities on your PC. This includes keeping track of what programs you run, how much time you spend on each of them etc, and show you rich statistics of what you do in front of your computer on a regular basis. This can be particularly useful while working with a team. How much time developers spend on an app, for example, can be tracked. And of course, for home users, if you’re wondering why you never get to finish that assignment? Well, take a look at the results this program throws at you.
A neat feature in this program is the ability to add ‘goals’ to manage productivity. Adding goals to activities enables users to view whether they were engaged in a particular activity for a longer time or less. Furthermore, activities can be categorized into, well, categories. Based on that, Slife will give out graphs and pie charts for easy analysis on results. Definitely a nice way to see what you’re doing with your time.
The Slife basic plan is free of cost. Two premium plans exist which cost $5 and $10 per month. As far as the actual user experience goes, I must say we found it a very clean experience. Not too complicated at all. The information is just there ready to be taken. The illustrations and graphical aid used to deliver stats is top notch. Overall, its just a great way to assess yourself on your time on front on the computer. (I realized i waste 30 minutes everyday playing solitaire. I really must do something about that.)
