# Context switching

> Tracking 'what I'm doing' reveals how much we context switch.

Still on a quest to figure out the right pattern for [work logs](/blog/0161/) (also [here](/blog/0183/) and [this episode of the Task & Project Management course](/jdu/taskpm/290-work-log-and-dashboard/)), I've been tracking what I'm doing in a really simple Baserow table for a couple of days.

It's just thing, started, and finished. If an item isn't finished, it groups up to the top (not shown here), so I have a simple list of stuff I'm still doing. It's been _really_ helpful and I'll keep doing it. (Idea is to template this out as something you can duplicate.)

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That's me working on 21 separate tasks, across the breadth of my business, in just 2 days. And I'm sure there are more: I haven't added a row for the fact that I'm typing out this blog post.

The modern world is _insane_. You can do so much. And at the end of the day your brain is broken. It's pretty obvious why.

I'm not sure what I do with this data yet. It's not like I want to slow down. But this doesn't feel sustainable? (Not complaining! Love my job. Just an observation.)