This is a minor issue, because everything seems fine, but the small charts under the efficiency and productivity displays seem wrong. They show my last few weeks at zero, although that's not what it says if one goes back one week.
I've included screenshots, the first is the current week, and the second is for last week:
The Productivity Measure is not meaningful in its current form. Currently the Productivity Measure, as I understand it, expresses what percentile the user is in productivity compared with all RT users. However, this percentile is a function of the arbitrary productivity values that I assign to my tags. Furthermore, if my average productivity percentile is in the 90s the day-to-day variation is quite small and hard to observe.
Instead, I suggest making the producitvity a cardinal measure (or at least provide that option). For example, it could simply be the time of an activity times the productivity of that activity. This way, I can compare my productivity across units of time (days, weeks, months) in a meaningful way (eg. I could say if I was twice as productive one week versus another). In the current form there is little meaningful way to compare productivity levels, one can only rank order them.
Lastly, I would suggest making the productivity of an activity the sum of the tag productivities, and not the average. This will make it easy to both assign a given productivity level to a particular activity and to create a system of tags to visualize how one spends one's time. For example, if I want to create a super-set tag of all my "work" activities, it will change my productivity scores no matter what value I set the super-set productivity at. It would be better if one could tag activities without necessarily changing their productivity.
A similar cardinal measure for Efficiency would also be useful (eg. productivity/time on computer).
If you are concerned about disturbing the current system, them you could implement these suggestions as options for advanced users.
I'd like to be able to specify the productivity of "untagged" applications.
I don't really want to create a "not-work" tag for everything. I'd like to be able to say that all time spend in an untagged application has this productivity. This would really improve my productivity and efficient scores and give me a much more accurate idea over time.
when I spent 5 minutes on "non productice" web surfing ("other" / untagged) and 1,5 minutes on emails (productivity score: -1) , my efficiency score shows up as 44. Why ?
It took me awhile to figure it out but I think i got the knack of it. Efficiency is my perception of spendign my time on efficient VS non efficient tasks. Productivity is measuring myself against everyone else in RT.
The second may not be as useful as the first sicne we have differnet ideas of what means productive. Still, if you score inthe 80s in both you must THINK you're doign something right.
Reading my email is productive only when work related. Reading email is non productive when I'm deleting spam or the plethora of FYI forwards I don't want to receive. Considering email is where I spend most of my time I am not sure I can adequately assess email in terms of efficiency.
Still the tool is good . . . to make the little graph more useful, perhaps it shoudl skip weekends - but then we're back to "week starts on what day?" Bottom line - if my work pattern makes it less useful then I do not use it.
I can see in a large organization setting the same goals and productivity for everyone then you can compare to "rest of MY team"....now THAT would be useful.
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