gwern comments on How to measure procrastination? - Less Wrong Discussion
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A daily checklist, percentage done; turn on something like Leechblock, but only the recording options and not the block options and measure time spent on 'procrastinating' websites; use arbtt to gather statistics to measure interventions; calculate average longevity of items on your TODO list; ...
Not seeing any suggestions from you - did you spend 5 minutes thinking about it before asking here?
Thank you for your thoughts.
Yes, I've spent some time thinking and researching this question, including looking at this research paper and this survey.
Because I didn't want ideas similar to my own, I didn't initially list my own ideas for fear of priming the responses.
I recognise with hindsight that my post gives the impression that I was unwilling to help myself - I could have been clearer.
Finally, given all the discussion on anti-akrasia and procrastination, I thought that others may have actual experience to share.