@Rebecca – those are both important and very useful observations!

@Molly – I do like the idea of having such a complete data set. I kind of wished I’d started a few months earlier so I would have had the 10-year-old’s entire life, but hey…

@LeeAnn – yep, there is a lot of amorphous kid care time. I put “kids etc.” on a lot of entries!

@Yukun – excellent!

@Frank – that sounds like a good system. Since I work from myself, and work from home, my laptop is available at night and on weekends, so I just enter the info in same as always. If I’m going somewhere for 24 hours and don’t want to bring my computer I will just email myself notes on how I spent my time and reconstruct it on my laptop later. I can also remember my time pretty well after 10 years of doing this so if it’s been less than 24 hours since I last checked in I can almost universally recall what I did. (I basically have a time tracker going in my brain, if that makes sense…)

I’m curious how everyone else here is doing the actual entering. Opening up the spreadsheet is easy when you’re working at a computer, but less so e.g. on the weekends, or on holiday. I managed to save Laura’s spreadsheet in Numbers format so I can open it on my phone (and it syncs over iCloud, back to the computer). It can be a bit finicky using the spreadsheet on the phone, but is sometimes much easier than opening up a computer. I think I probably do about 50% of the entering on a phone. I do wish someone would make an app for this! 🙂