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Launching deepwork.today

Arijit Bhattacharya on August 01, 2019

TL;DR - deepwork.today helps you to keep a tab on your day. Always know how much time you have to get work done. Decline unnecessary meetings. Sign...
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Amruta Ranade

I have never been more excited to try out an app! I am a big fan of Deep Work and am always on the lookout for apps that can help me prioritize deep work. Just signed up -- will keep you informed about my experience :)

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Arijit Bhattacharya

Thats awesome Amruta

Yeah, let us know if there are already things you do to prioritise deep work. Any practice that can be part of the app and shared with others.

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Amruta Ranade

I would love to see a pomodoro timer within the app. And also a log of Deep Work hours per day (as of now, I maintain it on my GCal).

The app's been syncing my gcal to my account for over an hour now -- any idea how long it's expected to take?

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Saurabh Arora

Hi Amruta, Arijit and I worked together on this app. Sorry that you are facing trouble with syncing. Usually it syncs within few seconds unless there is some permission issue or we encountered an edge case. Try in another browser just in case. We will check it and send you a notification.

We have contemplated to add Pomodoro tracking within the app, and a breakup of deepwork distribution across #project categories. Or perhaps an integration with one of the common pomodoro apps. Which pomodoro timer app do you use?

If you are logging a calendar event for deep work where there is no other recipient, we do not consider that as a meeting and do not track that in your meeting analytics. But this could be an interesting stat we can show you in a new analytics card telling you how much time you have spent in deep work. We will see if many people use their calendars to log their individual deep work like yours.

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Amruta Ranade

I use the Forest app as my Pomodoro timer. As for the calendar event for deep work, I do that right now because I don't have another way to track it. I don't think you need to sync my deep work events from my gcal to your app -- I think if I have the Pomodoro timer in your app, then the number of sessions per day would serve as my deep work log and that's good enough!

About the sync issues: Will try it on another browser and report back.

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Amruta Ranade

Tried on Firefox and Chrome..no luck :(

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Arijit Bhattacharya • Edited

Hey Amruta

Right now deepwork.today centres around meetings. We show you potential time left for work today because we know how much time you will be spending in meetings.

We also allow you to decide whether a meeting is relevant and show you meeting tips and analytics.

I understand you are expecting deepwork in terms of focus times but we define it as non-meeting times in your work day.

So, the app functions only if you provide permission to access your calendar events. We will soon release a fix where we set this expectations upfront instead of showing you a loader.

For pomodoro, I have been using Pomotodo for some years now. You can associate a task with the spent Pomo. So, when you complete a task you know how much pomos were spent on it. This helps me in time estimation. Maybe you will like it. It has some analytics too as well.

Thanks.

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Amruta Ranade

Oh, the app looks incredible! Thanks for sharing :)

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Ben Halpern

Really slick! I think this is quite promising. I just signed up.

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Arijit Bhattacharya

Thanks Ben!

Let me know how this works out for you!

We are planning to build more interventions. Will wait for suggestions from you.

Have a great day!

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Ben Halpern

I'm getting out of my regular schedule for a bit so won't be able to really get to use it until about ten days from now, but will do!

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Jasmin

Sounds awesome! I was actually looking for some app that encourages Deep Work and Productivity. So excited to try it out. Signing up for this right away!

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Arijit Bhattacharya

🙌

Hope this helps!

How many meetings you have to attend in a day, usually?

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Edison Yap

This looks great! Is there a way to connect to both Personal and Work calendars?

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Arijit Bhattacharya

Thanks Edison!

Our motif was to manage workplace time.

Just curious now would you be using this your personal calendar?

I will take a look and try to estimate the efforts.