Distraction tracker
You cannot block what you have never measured.
Most people can name one distraction and badly underestimate the rest. This tool asks you to log interruptions as they happen, then shows the daily cost in minutes and ranks the sources over the last seven days.
Runs in your browser · No sign-up · Data stays on your device
Track your distractions
Add the sources that pull you away, then log minutes as they happen. Quick log adds five minutes in one click.
Distraction sources
List the sites, apps and people that pull you away from work.
No sources yet. Add the first one above.
Log a distraction
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- Interruptions
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- Time lost
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- Focus impact
- Against a four-hour focus baseline
Top time sinks
Last seven days, ranked by minutes lost.
Nothing logged in the last seven days.
Seven-day trend
Minutes lost each day, relative to your worst day.
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Four steps to fewer interruptions
Measure first. Blocking without data removes the wrong things.
List your sources
Sites, apps, chat, and people. Be honest and specific, because "social media" is too vague to act on.
Log as you go
Logging at the moment takes five seconds. Reconstructing your day at six in the evening produces a number that is roughly half the truth.
Read the ranking
The seven-day view almost always shows two or three sources responsible for most of the loss. Those are the only ones worth acting on.
Change one thing
Mute one channel, move one meeting, close one tab. Then keep logging and check whether the number actually moved.
Why tracking beats blocking
Blockers get bypassed. Awareness tends to stick.
Turns a feeling into a number
"I get distracted a lot" cannot be acted on. "Chat costs me seventy minutes a day" can, and it usually surprises people.
Exposes the real cost
The interruption is rarely the expensive part; getting back into the work is. Logging the full recovery time shows the true price.
Focuses effort where it pays
A small number of sources dominate the total. Fixing those two beats a blocklist of forty sites you never visited anyway.
Gives you evidence to push back
Asking for fewer meetings or a quieter channel works much better with a week of numbers behind it.
Frequently asked questions
Does this actually block websites?
No. It is a tracker, not a blocker, because a web page cannot restrict other apps or sites. It measures the cost so you can decide what deserves a real blocker, a muted channel or a conversation.
What is the focus ratio based on?
It compares today's logged distraction minutes against a four-hour focus baseline, which is a realistic upper bound for deep work in a normal working day. At two hours lost, the ratio reads fifty per cent.
How long should I track for?
Two weeks. One week shows the obvious sources, but the pattern of which days and which hours are worst only becomes reliable in the second.
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Measure distraction without logging it by hand
Worktivity captures app and site usage automatically, so the time sinks show up in a report instead of a manual log.
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