Our new message, Productivity analysis, will help you track your workday to learn what affects your productivity and what you can do to stay on top of your game.

We’re not going to guess how much you’ve done — only you truly know that. Instead, we’ll focus on how effectively you managed to create good working conditions for yourself, taking into account whether you:

Please note that Productivity analysis is only available for Premium users. The message is based on your data from RescueTime.

Productivity analysis takes into account your computer and/or phone activity from the previous workday and scores how efficient your day was based on 3 smart productivity metrics: Productive time, Focus, and Schedule. To get your activity data, we use a screen time tracker RescueTime — read more about how it works here.

Over time, our algorithm will learn your baseline. For example, if you typically work 5 hours a day but barely clocked in 3 yesterday, your Efficiency score will decrease. But, if you start regularly working fewer hours, the algorithm will adapt and learn not to lower your Efficiency score.

It will take approximately 3 weeks to train the algorithm.

To get productivity analysis, you need to:

Important note for iPhone users: due to Apple restrictions, RescueTime is not allowed to process any activity details or specific app usage on iPhone and send this data to third-party developers. Because of this, you will not receive our productivity analysis or see any activity data in the Productivity section if you use the new RescueTime app for iPhone.

We’ll send a message to your feed the morning after the workday — for example, if you connect RescueTime on Monday, you’ll get your Monday productivity analysis on Tuesday morning.

Productivity analysis consists of two parts:

The main message in your feed has 3 pages — swipe left or right to switch between them.

On the message cover, you’ll see:

Swipe left to see your Efficiency score. It’s calculated based on 3 smart metrics: time spent in productive and distracting apps compared to your typical workday, focus, and schedule. It reflects how well you managed to create good working conditions for yourself. The higher the score, the more efficient your day was.

Here’s what different scores mean:

A green forward arrow below the Efficiency score indicates that you were more efficient than usual, while a red downward arrow shows that your efficiency took a hit.

This page also features a detailed breakdown of your time:

Swipe left once more to see 3 productive and 3 distracting apps where you spent most of your time.

Productive apps are the ones you labeled as very productive and productive in RescueTime while Distracting apps are the ones labeled as very distracting and distracting.

Tap see details for a detailed analysis with recommendations, 3 smart metrics, your app usage, and time spent in each app category.

The detailed analysis features:

Your Efficiency score is calculated based on 3 smart productivity metrics: Productive time, Focus, and Schedule.

This metric takes into account how much time you spent in productive and distracting apps compared to your usual day. Our algorithm needs several weeks to gauge how long you usually work.

Please note that we estimate how much time you spent in different app categories based on which apps you labeled as very productive, productive, neutral, distracting, and very distracting in RescueTime. If something doesn’t seem right, check the app settings in RescueTime. We explain how to customize app categories here.

Productive time — and your Efficiency score — may take a hit if you spend significantly less time in productive apps than usual. But if, at the same time, you manage to concentrate better, your Efficiency score may become even higher. We’ve colored the apps you consider very productive and productive blue and green.

Yellow and red bars indicate time spent in distracting and very distracting apps — the higher the bar, the more minutes you spent in these apps. If you spend more time than usual in distracting apps, the Efficiency score will become lower.

This metric reflects how concentrated you were throughout the day and how often you switched between apps. To calculate your Focus, we analyze how many apps and services you used in an hour — the fewer, the better.

The chart below shows the number of apps you used during each hour. Hours with good focus are highlighted in blue and green, while hours with poor focus are highlighted in yellow.

Below the chart, you’ll also see the total number of apps and links you opened during the day and the maximum and minimum number of apps per hour.

Schedule reflects how consistent your schedule was and how often you took breaks. Stick to a regular schedule to prevent this metric from negatively affecting your Efficiency score.

You may see that your Schedule is off track if you started working way later or earlier than usual or barely took any breaks. For the best results, take a 15-minute break every 90 minutes.

An overview of the 5 most used apps and links. Swipe left to see the top-5 most used apps in every category: Very productive, Productive, Neutral, Distracting, and Very distracting. If you don’t see a category, you didn’t use apps from this category that day.

A breakdown of time spent in different app categories during the day.

A note for iPhone users: you need to upgrade to Welltory version 4.3.2 or higher to see this breakdown.

This can happen for several reasons:

If RescueTime is connected to Welltory and there’s nothing wrong with it, send us a report: go to Menu, scroll down till the end of the screen, tap Report a problem, describe the issue, and press Send. We’ll check into what went wrong.

This could have happened if you spent quite a lot of time in productive apps. As many of our users don’t have a standard workweek, our algorithm identifies workdays based on the amount of time spent in productive apps and not on the calendar.

If this is inconvenient, you may want to change what apps you consider productive. Learn how to customize app categories here.

Productivity analysis doesn’t assess how much progress you made on tasks and projects. Instead, it estimates how well you managed to create a good working environment for yourself: for example, did you start working earlier or later than usual, how often your attention wandered off from tasks, and how much time you spent in useful apps.

All these factors — Productive time, Focus, and Schedule — affect your Efficiency score. So if you spend a lot of time doing something productive but constantly switch your attention, your Efficiency score will decrease. But if the algorithm learns this is how you typically work, we’ll adjust the scoring and stop lowering your Efficiency score.

No. Your Efficiency score also takes into account how focused you were and whether you adhered to your regular schedule.

So if you simply spent less time in productive apps than usual but were laser-focused and started working at your usual time, the Efficiency score may even increase.

Take a look at these messages — they are for the same person. One day, he worked productively for almost 8 hours but spent quite a lot in distracting apps. The other day, he worked productively for 6 hours and had great focus, so his Efficiency score was higher.

The color of the Efficiency score’s circle depends on two factors:

If your day lasted less than 8 hours, the color of the circle would only depend on your Efficiency score:

0-49% — red circle;

50-89% — yellow circle,

90% and higher — green circle.

And if you put in more than 8 hours, the color of the circle would adjust:

0-49% — red circle;

50-109% — green circle;

110-179% — yellow circle;

180% and higher — red circle.

In this case, higher Efficiency scores will be colored yellow and red to warn you that you worked more than is safe for your health.

The word beta in the title means that this message is based on a new algorithm with a lot of new metrics. We’ll gradually improve the algorithm using your feedback to make it even more accurate.

We’ll add the recommendations soon — we’re constantly improving the message to make it even more useful.

Open the detailed analysis, scroll to the end, tap help now, and share your thoughts. This will help us make the productivity analysis even better for you.

If you spot a mistake, send us a report: go to Menu, scroll down till the end of the screen, tap Report a problem, describe the issue, and press Send.