Do people HAVE lives that are so complicated they have to use stuff like this? And if they do, don't they have any worries that a whole lot of their personal and professional information is in the hands of .com sites? You can't tell me that they aren't going to use that data to their profit sometime, somehow. The countdown clock is a perfect example. Before you get to the how-t0, you have to sign up on a dating site. No, thank you. I'd prefer to talk to somebody in our computer group. They would be able to find me something that wouldn't merrily download viruses and goodness knows what else into our system and add insult to injury with tracking cookies.
I can't think of a single way any of these would be of any use to me personally or professionally. I have a calendar on my desk where I have appointments, vacations, and projects marked out, and a cheap notebook calendar in my purse that has the same things marked out, and they do everything I need them to do. I haven't had to learn any new programs, to clutter my mind with any more passwords and usernames, or to give personal or professional information to a total stranger who may not be quite nice.
I am not sure whether these tools really improve productivity or merely create the impression of busyiness, which to some people is the same thing. If others feel the need, that's fine with me, but I don't. I measure productivity by the quality and quantity of output not by the clutter of a calendar.
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You are absolutely correct about people being more concerned about busyness than productivity. And the irony is that the people who are so concerned about documenting every detail of their busyness seldom accomplish a great deal.
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