How do I decide which apps count as productive?

Every application and website somebody opens while clocked in creates a row in Review apps. Until that row is rated, its minutes are recorded as neutral.

Where the list is

1. Sign in at app.useworktivity.com as an owner or a co-owner.
2. Go to Tracking, then Review apps.
3. There are two tabs, Unreviewed and Reviewed. The numbers on them are organization totals; the filters below do not change them.
4. Each row carries three buttons: Productive, Neutral and Unproductive. Pressing one moves the row to the reviewed tab.

A row is one app for one team

The record is kept per team, not per organization. The same application can be productive for one team and unproductive for another, and the Team column says which row is which. People who are not in a team have their own rows, marked as having no team.

A rating also reaches backwards

Changing a rating rewrites the productivity already stored on that row's activity records. The productivity report changes for past days too, not only for the minutes that arrive afterwards.

That is what makes the first pass through the list worth doing properly. A week of guessed ratings is a week of reports that read differently once somebody corrects them.

The suggestion is a starting point

Worktivity AI reads each row and proposes a value, shown in its own column while the row is still unreviewed. Reports never use it. The number that counts is the one on the row, and it stays empty until a person sets it.

Who can do this

• Owners and co-owners see and change everything.
• A manager sees the screen only while Managers can see app reviews is on, and can change a rating only while Managers can change app reviews is on. Both start off, under Workspace settings, Tracking, Permissions.
• A manager only ever sees the rows of their own team.

Where the result shows up

• Insights, then Productivity: working time split into productive, neutral, unproductive and unclassified. The shares are of working time, so breaks and idle minutes are not counted.
• Insights, then Apps summary: the same time broken down per application and per website.

A new organization shows a large neutral share for exactly this reason. Nothing has been rated yet, and neutral is what an unrated application is recorded as. See what is recorded about an application.