User tracks their task switching and identifies a significant amount of time lost to context switching. They suggest a feature that helps track and analyze these switches to improve focus and productivity.
got this idea from a post someone made a while back about tracking tab opens. thought mine would be fine. reader, it was not fine. put a sticky note next to my keyboard. every context switch, app to app, tab to tab, task to task, got a mark. didn't track why, just tracked when. end of day: 112 marks. over an 8-hour day that's roughly one switch every 4 minutes. then i went through and categorized them. about 35 were 'necessary' switches. things i actually had to do. the other 77 were what i'd call friction switches. going somewhere to get something so i could come back and do the actual thing. the friction switches were almost entirely the same few patterns: opening a new AI tab, looking something up mid-sentence, checking if a message came in. i thought i had a focus problem. turns out i had a friction problem. those are different things with different fixes. has anyone done this kind of tracking and found something that surprised them?