Resources For Personal Time Management

Tools and Sites That Will Help You Manage Your Time

This is a list of useful resources that can help you learn even more about personal time management. The resource will be updated every time when we find useful resources. I welcome any suggestions too.

Guides

Here are some guides like ours but obviously providing some additional or different information aspects on time managements.

Personal Time Management Guide
This guide contains a lot of mostly short articles many of which are rather good.

Time Management Help
Several basic articles. They are good if you are beginner in time management.

Time management on Wikipedia
A bit scientific article with a lot of references and links for further reading. It’s good if you want to go deep in the matter.

The Ultimate Time Management Guide
This site offers a free guide designed like a book. I wouldn’t call it “ultimate”, but it’s good introduction.

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Tools and Software

Google Calendar
Web based calendar from Google. It can help you schedule appointments and other tasks.

Todoist
Free and easy to use web based to-do list software

Remember the milk
Remember the milk is one of the most popular web based task managers with SMS and IM reminders, sharing and a lot more.

Toggl is time tracking software. The pricing starts at $5 per month.

Subernova has stronger focus on project management and is more suitable for businesses.

Dovico is even more advanced and combines project planning with time and expense tracking

ManicTime is downloadable software for Windows

15 Awesome Time Management Tools and Apps
This is a nice collection made by the blogger Dumb Little Man. Some of them may have been included here already.

Time Doctor  An accurate time tracking software which gives you an analytics of your workday. It’s perfect for evaluating and improving productivity.

Time Management Courses

I have not visited any widely recognized online courses so we are open to reader suggestions here.

Mind Tools are within the most popular time management training providers.

Books

Here are some of the best books on the topic that are sold at Amazon. Intentionally I am not adding any comments, you can check the reader reviews at Amazon.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – 384 pages, published at 2004

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play – 224 pages, 2007 edition

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less – this one is older, from 1999; 288 pages

Unclutter Your Life in One Week – 237 pages, from 2009

Getting Organized: Improving Focus, Organization and Productivity – smaller book, 176 pages; 2004 edition.

Time Management from the Inside Out, Second Edition: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule — and Your Life – 2004 edition, 304 pages

The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy – 144 pages, published in 2005

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – 384 pages, frok November 2004

10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management – published at 1995, 219 pages

Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management – 224 pages, 2008 edition

Videos

Here are some interesting videos from Youtube, in case you prefer to perceive information in this form.

Time managment; Become the master of your day – this is a short video with Keith Rosen

Secrets of effective time management – Tips and techniques for managing your day created by jobsuccess.org, 9 minutes

Time Management for University Students – 25 minutes long movie with Ken Cage