Qbserve for Mac to measure your level of productivity and increase motivation (drawing is completed)
Macos / / December 26, 2019
Getting started in the morning, we are ready to move mountains. But after a couple of hours from the fuse does not remain a trace, and we are stuck in the social networks, read the news or watch a funny video with seals. Compensate for the lack of self-control and to replace the strict warden-chief can be successfully Qbserve utility.
Not so long ago we talked about the application EscapeWhich analyze what you are doing on my Mac, and shows how often and for what reasons are distracted from work. However, the information is demonstrated only in the mornings, and only in the past day. Besides it is not possible to manually divide the applications into useful and distracting.
Qbserve you can call it a more advanced version. The program monitors all activity on your Mac and using a clever algorithm displays the percentage of your productivity ratio to a level of inactivity in the menu bar. By "all" I really mean everything: the standard and third-party applications, websites with subdomains or even individual chats Telegram and Skype. Now based Qbserve 6400 application sites, and for convenience, they are divided into categories and are divided into productive, neutral and distracting.
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Icon cherished percent in the menu bar changes in real time, showing your level of productivity. Every few minutes on YouTube or Twitter inexorably reduced rate, making you reluctant to return to a more useful things.
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In the main window Qbserve construction diagram showing the productivity and the top 5 producing, neutral and distracting activities, as well as a detailed schedule of hourly productivity per day.
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Detailed statistics with interest and minutes for each application and website is displayed on the second tab. There is a division into categories and many filters. If the activity is not set correctly - for example, when YouTube for you to work, not entertainment - its type then you can change, and select the applications that will be ignored.
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In addition to the meter in the menu bar at the Qbserve there are other ways of motivation. Appendix cheer you notice when the time of productive work per day will be four hours, and scolded, when you spend more than two nonsense. In addition, you can customize motivational reminder to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.
I use Qbserve for two weeks and I can say that the utility really works. On the first day, I have not changed anything in the settings. Simply launch the app and worked in its normal mode to immediately collect statistics on all activity. Then in the evening I corrected lists distracting applications and sites. They turned out to be not so much, they were mostly working chats Telegram and several Web resources that I use for work.
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On the second day, the magic began to happen. I tried to look into the smaller ribbon Twitter and respond to friends in chat rooms, to the productivity level does not fall below 70%, and very upset when it happened. At the end of the day on my hands was a list of the worst killers of time, and the key to success. In the second week rate of 70% has not satisfied: the excitement made me work harder to get the figure of more than 90%. It is very difficult, but sometimes it worked.
This seemingly trivial approach proved to be very effective. When you see 2-3 of wasted hours, you know, I could finish the job much earlier, and free up time to pay personal matters. If you have problems with self-organization, or you work out of the office without a strict schedule and bosses, Qbserve help realize the extent of the problem and deal with it. He helped me.
The app costs $ 40, but has a 10-day trial. Besides now in honor of the launch of a discount of 25%.
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Results of the draw
As promised, we played two Qbserve license key. Luck smiled on the two readers Danil and Agatha_St. Guys, we will contact you by mail and tell you how to get your keys. Congratulations to the winners and thank everyone else for participating!