My Work & Scores
What do the Productivity, Focus and Overall scores mean?
What each score measures, how Overall combines them, and how to compare a day against your own averages.
In DoTally, Productivity measures how productive your classified time was and how much of your workday it covered, Focus measures how well your attention held through the day, and Overall combines the two. Each score runs from 1 to 10, and DoTally Sense works them out with AI after you log your day.
Productivity: how much of the day was real work
Productivity looks at the time you logged, split by DoTally Sense into productive, neutral and unproductive:
Productive time raises it.
Neutral time counts half.
Unproductive time lowers it.
It also takes into account how much of your workday you logged. A short day of good work scores lower than a full day of the same quality. Your Workday Length comes from your workday schedule.
Focus: how well your attention held
Focus combines four things:
Long, steady blocks of work. Long stretches on one piece of work raise it, and a day cut into fragments lowers it. What counts as “long” depends on your role. A developer’s blocks are expected to run longer than a support agent’s.
Real context switching. Jumping between unrelated things lowers it, measured against what’s normal for your role. Moving between the tools the same work needs doesn’t count against you, and neither do video calls or quick checks of a chat app.
How much of your active time was productive.
Unexplained breaks. Away time you haven’t given a reason for lowers it. Explained breaks don’t. See How does DoTally decide when I’m away?
Once you’ve logged a few days, Focus is also measured against your own history, not just a generic baseline for your role.
Overall: one number for the day
Overall is 65% Productivity and 35% Focus. You’ll see it in Custom Reports and on the Leaderboard, next to Productivity and Focus. The Leaderboard’s order comes from a separate Rank score.
Reading your scores
Each score card on your day shows the day’s score, your average, and a small chart of the week.
Open any score to see its Score Details: your weekly, monthly and all-time trend, with every day’s score and how it compares with your own average.
There’s no universal “good” number. A 6 can be a strong day for one role and an average one for another. The useful comparison is with your own averages, which is what Score Details shows.
What you can change
Correct classifications. If an app’s label is wrong, reclassify it or add a Keyword Rule. Productivity and Focus both use these labels.
Explain your breaks to stop them lowering your Focus.
Keep your job title up to date in Profile Settings. It sets what’s normal for your role.
Answer the calibration questions that appear after analysis. They teach DoTally how you work. See Why is my Focus score low when I was working?
Available on: Team Professional, including the 14-day trial. Team StartUp shows your logged, active and away time, but not scores.
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