For time-tracking and task-management: - Personal Hourly timesheet. - Outlook Tasks. - Old-school post-it notes. This works extremely well for me as i get n

For time-tracking and task-management: - Personal Hourly timesheet. - Outlook Tasks. - Old-school post-it notes. This works extremely well for me as i get new tasks from: - Emails - Meetings More important is generating metrics about what you did with your time. I rely on a timesheet(xls with 24slots a day). Basically filling the slots upfront with task-ids when i need to plan for a few upcoming tasks, estimate effort etc. Also everyday i fill any empty timeslots in the sheet with what i did then. 2Months of this and i have: - A better idea on my actual burn-down rate. - Improved schedule estimates. - No feeling of constantly being pushed to the limit. - Not missed any important deadlines.