Track Time in Meetings and Understand Its Impact

Meetings change the shape of your workday: they can move things forward, break up focus time, or simply fill the calendar. Tracking what share of your day is spent in meetings turns "too many meetings" into something you can actually evaluate.
When you compare meeting load with metrics like tasks completed, focus sessions, stress, or productivity, it becomes easier to see when meetings are helping your work and when they’re getting in the way.

Why tracking time in meetings matters

Tracking time in meetings does two big things for you: it keeps you generally aware, and it turns this into data you can actually learn from.

Once you have that log, you can line it up with other things you track in your work, wellbeing, habits, or any other metric you care about. That’s where patterns start to show: how does time in meetings change the way you feel and work over time?

Ways to track time in meetings

There isn't just one way to track time in meetings. You can keep it very lightweight, build your own system, or use a tool that's designed for intentional tracking and insights. Each option has trade-offs.

Manual notes or journals

Writing things down in a notebook or notes app is flexible and always available. You can add context, thoughts, or details about your day. But over time, it becomes hard to flip back, compare days, or notice patterns, especially when you also care about connections to other metrics in your work, wellbeing, and habits.

Spreadsheets or custom trackers

A spreadsheet (or a DIY tracker) gives you structure: dates in rows, values in columns, charts you can build yourself. It works well in theory, but in practice it's very manual. You have to remember to open it, log every entry, and spend time building formulas and charts before you get any insight out of the data.

✅ Track intentionally with Proddigy

Proddigy is built for people who want the benefits of tracking without the friction. You get a gentle notification at the right time, and you can log time in meetings directly from the notification in a few seconds. Everything is stored in a structured way, alongside any other metrics you choose to track, like stress, mood, sleep, productivity, or custom metrics you define. Proddigy handles the visuals, patterns, and correlations, so you can focus on noticing what actually helps you become better.

How to track time in meetings with Proddigy

With Proddigy, tracking time in meetings becomes a simple, intentional check-in instead of something you do only when you remember. You choose when you want to be reminded, for example every evening, only on weekdays, any time that fits your routine.

Each reminder comes as a notification with a clear, customizable question about time in meetings. You can also define the structured responses (like "yes/no", intensity, duration, or anything else), and answer directly from the notification, no need to open the app.

Over time, Proddigy turns these small check-ins into a rich dataset. You can see trends, distributions, and correlations between time in meetings and anything else you choose to track in your wellbeing, habits, or work. This helps you understand not just what the numbers say on a single day, but how it fits into the bigger picture of your wellbeing and work.

What you’ll gain from tracking time in meetings

Stay honest with yourself: when you log it regularly, it becomes clear how time in meetings actually changes over time, instead of relying on a rough memory of "good" or "bad" periods.
Turn vague impressions into real data, so you don’t have to guess whether time in meetings is getting better, worse, or staying the same.
See how time in meetings tends to move together with other things you track, including your wellbeing, habits, work, or any other metric you care about.
Spot meaningful patterns over weeks and months: what tends to show up on your "good days" so you can do more of it, and notice early when things begin to shift, so you can adjust before it turns into a bigger problem.

Start tracking time in meetings

If time in meetings matters to you, tracking it is the easiest way to give it a real place in your day. Proddigy makes it simple to log at the times you choose and turns those check-ins into a clear picture of how time in meetings fits into and affects your work, wellbeing, and the other things you care about.

Instead of guessing, you’ll have your own data to notice patterns, experiment, and adjust your routine with confidence.

Other metrics worth tracking alongside time in meetings

Time in Meetings is usually part of a bigger picture. These related metrics can help you see how different parts of your wellbeing, habits, and work move together over time.