The ability to detail which tools and websites I consider productive gives me high confidence that I'm hitting my goals. Qbserve makes it possible to accurately measure my productivity. I often set goals like "today I want to get 6hrs of work done" and Qbserve's precise activity monitoring lets me be sure I'm staying on track. With Qbserve I have accurate measurements that keep me on track. After a few weeks I felt very comfortable using it, and knowing where to look for the information most relevant to me at the time pertinent: percentages vs absolute values, stacked bar chart vs pie chart, hour-by-hour breakdown, etc.Ĭomments: I've drastically increased my productivity while simultaneously removing any worry that I wasn't getting enough done. However, the developer has done a good job of hiding advanced functionality in a separate tab.
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The software can feel very slightly unwieldy when you first pick it up due to the amount of functionality and information at your fingertips. With only three tabs in a window that takes about a quarter of my screen, I have complete understanding of the time I've spent today on my computer. Lastly, the timesheet tab allows me to get a minute by minute breakdown of what I was doing at the time. I can stop here or get more insights on a Details tab this is where I'll categorize "uncategorized activities" by type and productivity, of which there aren't that many because of the crowd-sourcing of categories. That's just the overview tab, and I'm already well aware of what my time has been spent on. At the very bottom, I can go back or forward a day, and pause time tracking for a few minutes.
Finally, spanning the bottom third is an absolute stacked chart broken down by hour, and I see that I was most productive in the 10am hour. Also on this overview page, a pie chart breakdown which also lets me know I was 7% more productive than yesterday. My productive time has mostly been spent working on a Google Doc (the app distinguishes websites when you use a browser). Looks like 14% ("39 minutes" when I hover) of the 3h29 of distracting time today was spent on Twitter. I click on the percentage, and an overview window pops up with 3 columns detailing the amount of time I've done productive, neutral, and distracting activities, each broken down by percentage of app use time. I glance at my status bar, a percentage telling indicates how productive I've been today. I learned when I was most productive and which bad habits to cut down on.
Comments: Great insights into how I spend my time on the computer (majority of my day).
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