How many times have you spent time on an application instead of moving forward on an important professional project? Procrastination is necessarily facilitated by various applications whose main purpose is to gain attention, to the detriment of productivity. It’s an increasingly important problem, and to address it, Google is doing its part with Digital Wellbeing, a service that aims to notify you when you’re spending time on important tasks instead of doing them. Spend too much time on the application.
As its name suggests (“Digital Wellbeing”), Google’s application aims to improve the user’s relationship with digital devices. Thus, this application is linked to parental control and basically allows you to optimize the time spent on the smartphone. In this way, Digital Wellbeing can provide its device usage data on a daily basis to better assess its usage and try to minimize distractions. But that’s not all: to date, Digital Wellbeing has added an important new feature to facilitate user productivity.
A sticker notifying you of time spent on a time-consuming application
Thus, the Google application, through a small thumbnail that appears at the top of the screen, offers to notify you when you spend too much time on an application (which you have already selected ). Let’s take an example: If you consider spending too much time on X to be detrimental to productivity, you list X as one of the applications to follow in Digital Wellness. After that, if you spend a certain amount of time on X, a notification will appear at the top of your screen letting you know that you’ve been using the application for a while.
There are applications on the market that allow you to block others, to avoid any kind of procrastination: not so with Digital Wellbeing, which only spends time on an app that bothers you. Cares to report. By keeping yourself informed, it is up to you whether you continue browsing or not. This new feature is now available on many Android smartphones, and Google is currently rolling out the update.
