Attention tracking

I've been thinking about working on a new way of looking at time tracking.

Time tracking requires a lot of effort and discipline to get it right. What I want to do with this application is to try to remove the headache of tracking attention on various devices for a single individual and sync them in such a manner that, it stays true to the correct timeline of one's attention.

My main insight for this application is that, As much as I try to multitask my brain serializes all the tasks I throw at it.

One can always try to maximise the efficiency of the work that they're trying to accomplish by limiting the meaningful interactions seen by the brain.

And given the current tooling available there are two different problems I've faced

• You need to install different applications to track time on various different platforms which produce results which are incompatible to reconcile
• You need to start and stop time tracking manually most of the time

With this application I'm trying to bridge the gap between different platforms by

• passively recording app open and close
  • record "in app" tasks using extensions, which are easy to build using simple API to tag attention point correctly
• reconcile all the inputs from various platforms programatically
  • one solution I'm exploring right now is CRDT's
    • and it is looking promising

And my current goal is to make this work okayish for me. I'll try to update asap.

Till then stay classy.