DoTally Sense
Can I change how DoTally classifies an app?
Reclassify a whole app, a single site or tab, or one window — and which days and scores the change affects.
Yes. In DoTally, you can change the AI’s call on any app, site or window to Productive, Neutral or Unproductive with the pencil next to Classified as. The change applies to your own scores immediately and to every day analysed after it.
Before you start
You need Team Professional or the 14-day trial. AI Classification, the feature that labels your apps, is part of DoTally Sense and isn’t on Team StartUp, so there’s nothing to reclassify there.
Classification happens after a day is logged. If a day isn’t logged yet, log it first.
How to reclassify an app, site or window
In My Work, open App Usage and click the app you want to change. You can also click it from the list of apps you logged that day.
Choose what to change by where you click the pencil:
The whole app: click the pencil next to Classified as on the app itself.
One site or tab, or one window: click the pencil on that window or tab’s row instead. Use this when the same app is work in one window and a distraction in another, like a browser.
Pick Productive, Neutral or Unproductive.
The day you’re viewing is re-scored straight away, and your Productivity, Focus and Overall scores update to match.
To undo it, reset the classification to the AI’s original call from the same place.
Which days the change affects
The day you’re viewing: re-scored immediately.
Days analysed after the change: use your new label automatically.
Days already scored: keep their old label. To change one, open that day and reclassify the app there.
Days older than your workspace’s history setting: can’t be reclassified, because the window titles they’d need are no longer kept. The Administrator sets this under Keep detailed history for (24 months by default).
When your change doesn’t win
DoTally checks a few things in order, and the first match decides:
Adult content is always Unproductive, and video calls are always Productive.
Your Keyword Rules come next.
Then your own reclassifications, with the most specific one winning: a single window beats a site or tab, which beats the whole app.
If none of these apply, the AI decides.
So if an app keeps its old label after you change it, check whether one of your Keyword Rules matches the window title.
Who your change affects
Your own days first. Reclassifying an app re-scores the day you’re looking at and changes your own classification from then on. Other people’s days that are already scored don’t change. Your change also joins the shared set DoTally learns from, so it can influence how the same app or window title is classified for other people, including in other workspaces, and so their scores on later days. The Administrator and Managers can’t reclassify apps for you, and there’s no team-wide setting that overrides your choices.
If you want something classified the same way every time, wherever it appears — a client name or job code in any app — use a Keyword Rule instead.
Available on: Team Professional, including the 14-day trial. Every member can reclassify their own apps.
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Still stuck? Email awesome@dotally.app.
