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Time tracking spreadsheet (personal workflow tool)
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A personal Excel spreadsheet Carolyn McClanahan has maintained since 2006 to track how she spends every 15 minutes of her workday, used to measure efficiency and identify time waste.
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Carolyn McClanahan · Sep 15, 2026
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Used for: Tracking time spent on every task to identify inefficiencies, benchmark task durations, and set productivity expectations for team members
Praised: Provides objective data on how long tasks take, enables benchmarking against ...
"I measure everything. People laugh. I have this spreadsheet that goes back to 2006 of how I have spent every 15 minutes of my workday. I want to know how I'm spending my time. Where am I wasting my time? So I know how long on average it takes me t..."
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