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HOW TOCKLOG'S AI SCORES YOUR PRODUCTIVITY
TockLog shows you two scores, produced two completely different ways — one a published formula, one a language model. Here is exactly how each works, and what they deliberately ignore.
PEAK HOURS: FINDING YOUR GOLDEN WINDOW
Your capacity for focused work is not flat across the day, and the peak is not where most schedules assume. Here's what the chronobiology research says, and how to locate yours.
THE CASE FOR LOGGING EVERYTHING, EVEN THE SMALL SESSIONS
A 15-minute session feels too small to log. It isn't. Granular tracking over time reveals patterns you would never see if you only recorded the 'real' work.
LOGGING FROM YOUR WRIST: WHY IT CHANGES EVERYTHING
The gap between finishing a task and reaching for your phone is where sessions go unlogged. That capture latency problem is the design brief for TockLog on Apple Watch — currently in development.
STREAKS ARE NOT VANITY METRICS
Streak counters get dismissed as gamification. The behavioural research suggests the mechanism is real — and also that most apps implement it badly enough to backfire.
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