This ebook is for scientists who would like to improve their usage of time. It contains basic time management tools that help you to become more productive or more relaxed (which in turn will make you more productive).

I wrote everything here with the needs of PhD students and postdocs in life science laboratories in mind. You may find it useful if you work in a different field, although you may find the biologists' humour hard to understand.

You can use this ebook in at least three ways:

• You are curious to try a few time management tools. Great! You will find them here.
• You attended a course and want to review what you learned there.
• You want to give a course for other scientists. Please take a look at the Trainers Guide at the end of the book.

I hope the time you spend reading this ebook will be time well spent ;-)

(c) 2015 Dr. Kristian Rother

Distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License 4.0

You are allowed to modify and share this material, or even use it in a commercial setting, given that you reference the author. So ideally you get rich, I get famous and everybody else gets their work done super-effectively, so that we can live happily ever after. :-)

The sources of this document, all images and material for exercises can be found on https://github.com/krother/Time_Management_for_Scientists.

The book itself is being built with a tool called Gitbook. It requires a bit of work to set up, but you don't have to be an IT specialist.

Contributions and suggestions for improvement are most welcome. If you don't know how to use git, simply drop me an email: [email protected].

I would like to thank Jörn Manz for sparking my interest in Time Management, the PhD students Kasprzak J, Milanowska K, Musielak M, Philips A and Puton T for helping me field-test, Toastmasters International for many hours of practical expertise as a trainer and Wojciech Potrzebowski for the opportunity to present this content before a large audience.