Active Timer and Productivity Metrics

This morning, I found a small utility for OS X called Active Timer. It’s very basic, but will track the focused program on your computer in 5-second increments. I think there’s a lot of potential for ‘good habit training’ in tools like this (I can see a whole lot of metrics, visualization that might be generated from a smarter version of this. The important part of it is the automatic collection of this data. The next step is the integration with workflow…

pie chart of computer usage morning of 2005-03-19