Yes, it definitely helps improving productivity. In my experience, working hard does not always result in delivering efficiently. You might have lots of things going on within the day and you might try to touch every one of those issues but when your target is not clear and visually available, you could be sliding into burnout as well as experiencing difficulty in closing some issues completely. You should be aware of your destination within a given time period to be able to tell apart your priorities and the things you're just losing time with. When combined with task management, performance tracking visualizes your progress. It reminds you what big rocks you planned to deal with and breaks them down to your weekly priorities or sometimes even to your daily tasks. Also it is kind of a gamification, so you push yourself to get things done otherwise you wouldn't find the time and energy for. On a team or company level, I would recommend OKR methodology, where you set common goals that will inspire you, which consist of measurable sub-targets so you can objectively see where you're at. It also helps you set better goals and do better when evaluated retrospectively. Here is a helpful article about OKRs: https://medium.com/@corvisio/okr.... You might not want it to get complicated in the beginning so you can simply set monthly or quarterly goals and track them. They should be agressive enough to make you grow but realistic enough so you don't give up and demotivate yourself. (80% realization of goals might be considered as success while 100% might be described as crème de la crème) To combine your performance tracking with task management the following tools might help (to measure your achievements in quantity): -Jira (agile sprints are useful for product and development teams), -Notion (simple but organized when you use the templates) -Todoist (to keep it at the simplest way possible) Additionally, any OKR tool might help to manage the big rocks you're dealing with. Hope it would be helpful :)

I guess it's really important, but also really hard to track The best way - do some experiments every week and write in a diary how do you feel and what you did You brain should automatically select what works for you

Absolutely important. Setting up and tracking OKRs is one of the best ways of doing it. Setup monthly and weekly OKRs. It helps you be on track as well and not pick up low priority stuff.

Hello! I think it depends on the field: personal or work productivity. Because all work tasks are tracking by corporate system (Jira, Asana etc). And usually we have some unpleasant consequences of low productivity =) But I have some issues with my personal goals so here I'm developing my own system. It's hard to give advice just because it's really depends on you lifestyle, tools (like phone or tablet) and even your sense of beauty. But I can recommend bullet journal - at least you'll enjoy the process! Good luck.

The best way I have found is - detail out what we are working on, break it in micro tasks, set the OKRs and track them week on week. This helps tremendously in keeping a check of how things are shaping up and course correcting wherever required.

Well, It depends; one thing I found with advice is that some things worked for me, some don't. I will tell you what worked for me in tracking. You can just invest a month/2 weeks doing it and seeing the progress. This is also related to what I read in "Eat that Frog" about progress and procrastination. Just Write down all the things that u need to do on paper, all the things no matter the priority or the urgency. After doing this, just select the things that will impact the growth in 1 month. Write down those on the new paper, select the top tasks, and break them down into weeks. Just check the progress each day, marking the progress for the week. It will boost your productivity.

If you can't measure, you can't scale-up anything. Thus, I think that it's important to monitor your productivity. Because, efficient work is different than hard one. You can find the pain points which would be barriers, when you work, and you can develop them!

@sergeipetrov Hi there! I monitor my productivity. I have Yaware TimeTracker installed on my laptop. Now I know exactly how many hours I worked per week and month. According to the statistics of the time tracker, it is clear that I work more productively in the morning or in the evening. And I was also surprised by how much time I spent on e-mail correspondence and searching for new information to review. In general, you will be interested to see productivity reports. Just in case, I'll leave a link here, so you understand what I'm talking about. https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

Yes, it's a helpful practice. I am product manager in startup and my the main metric is new adopters for my project. And I know my goal every week. I use Ordemio and ToDoist for my job. Therefore I know: - How many contacts I was able to add - What tasks I was able to do If I don't know about metrics in my job it means that I have bad results and maybe results not at all.

Should we measure productivity numerically or by goals achieved? I prefer the second.

I simply started allocating one hour a day for planning the entire day and 30 minutes to reflect the productivity at the end of the day. It helps me to build the basement for further numerical evaluations.

I've tried a lot of productivity tracking apps: Toggl, Rescue Time, Time doctor, phone apps. I've found the best combination for me is the Mac app "Timing" (automatically tracks time) and a paper notepad. I use my own app (focusbear.io) to remind myself to log my time every 20 minutes. I find writing it down is most helpful in actually leading to change as it gives me awareness in the moment. Looking at the logs in Timing at the end of the day is mainly helpful in tracking whether I'm getting better at deep work. The biggest factor for me in upping the proportion of time I spend in deep work is eliminating distractions. I built a super pomodoro mode feature in Focus Bear which guides me to do 4*50 minute pomodoros in the morning and blocks all distracting apps and websites. Keeping my mental alertness high is also important. I do micro workouts throughout the day (e.g. 1 minute of pushups every 20 minutes) as I find otherwise my energy levels dip and I'm more likely to procrastinate.

What matters the most for me in monitoring productivity is- Am I making progress on what matters most? Almost everyone overestimates what they can do in a day and underestimates what they can do in a month/year. If you make some progress towards what really matters each day, you're in great shape. For time management, I've tried using variations on the Pomorodo method. A Pomodoro is a 25 min block of time (or longer if you like) where you are 100% focused on the task at hand. It's followed by a schedule break for triaging any asks from the team, resting, etc. Pomodoro helps me make sure my inputs are consistent (and intentionally aligned with what matters most - even if it's not what's easiest to get started with). Here's how: https://www.stashpad.com/blog/po...

Yes, I do! You could check it out here: https://bit.ly/m/Branding