We want to simplify how you can use Opal to check your focus and screen time throughout the day. @Anton@matt and I have been working on the below design concept:
no more âScoreâ tab
new Home that shows your day up to now as an hourly bar chart, with in green time focused time which includes time youâre offline and screen time on âfocusedâ apps, Vs in red âdistractedâ screen time.
you can tap and scrub individual bars in the chart to see the data for specific hours
you can see the list of all apps/websites you used, time spent
you can tap on any app/website in the list to edit their focus level (âfocusedâ, âdistractedâ, or neutral where it wonât count in your screen time)
you can tap âtodayâ to pick another date in the past and see the data for that day
Instead of representing your Focus as a numerical value out of 10 (âfocus scoreâ), we show it as a colorful bar chart with red being distracted and green being focused.
5 because it solves my two main issues, which I only shared a couple of days ago so thanks for the reactivity but can be improved of course.
First, I would recommend not showing the âtime offlineâ on the bar graph. The bar graph can show the distracting-apps-time in red, the productive-apps-time in green, and the offline-time just not showing. This way the red and green portions of the bar add up to the total screen-time, so you have an extra piece of graphic information on this graph.
Second, since there is good and bad screen-time, you should differentiate it in the big number shown on the home screen. Beyond the blocking, this is the most important addition of your app to iOS Screen Time: I donât really care about how much total time I spent on my phone today, I care about how much DISTRACTING time I spent on my phone today. To match the graph (if you implement the change I suggested above), you could simply display the number for the distracting-apps-time in red, and the number for the productive-apps-time in green (or, better, the total screen-time in white).
While youâre at it, add a Y-axis showing some ticks for time, like iOS Screen Time (I recommend showing the 15min, 30min, and 45min marks)
The â% distracted timeâ is ambiguous. Is this the change relative to the previous hour? To the previous day? To the same hour from the previous day? In any case, I am not convinced this is super relevant at a sub-day level, since our days are organized so that it is expected to have periods of time where we are more distracted than others. This kind of % change is more relevant from day to day, or even more so from week to week, as this is where progress is to be observed.
I liked the qualificatives that went with the focus score (that is, âflow stateâ, âdeep focusâ, âdistractedâ, etc.) so feel free to keep them. This could be useful for very relevant analysis downstream, such as âHow many waking hours I spent this week in âdeep-focusâ or better? How many hours was I âvery distractedâ?â etc.
Excellent feedback - I agree with all your points! One of the challenges with opal is that the information is not always clear in its relativity and I like how your points address that
Iâd rate it a 4. This looks like a really good concept. I just check to see that another app (Speechify) was rated as distracting when I was using it for productive reading, so it would be great to be able to rate how useful/distracting it was this time or for all time. I do feel like the wave in its current iteration is a little more obvious than the video, but maybe itâs just the preview.
I would also like to see either distracted percentage as compared to last week or just see how much of my phone use was productive or distracted.
but can be improved of course.