Track Working Time and Understand Its Impact
Working hours shape the rest of your day: too little and you may feel stuck, too much and everything else gets squeezed out. Tracking how many hours you work gives you a realistic picture of your workload instead of relying on a vague sense of being "busy".
With that data, you can see how different ranges of work time relate to things like productivity, stress, sleep, mood, and focus sessions, and find the amount of work that actually works for you.
Why tracking working time matters
Tracking working time 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 working time change the way you feel and work over time?
Ways to track working time
There isn't just one way to track working time. 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 working time 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 working time with Proddigy
With Proddigy, tracking working time 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 working time. 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 working time 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 working time
- Stay honest with yourself: when you log it regularly, it becomes clear how working time 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 working time is getting better, worse, or staying the same.
- See how working time 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 working time
If working time 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 working time 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 working time
Working Time 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.