Productivity calculator: your working day budget
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See how much time remains for focused work after meetings, email and other activities. A transparent calculation based on your inputs.
What makes up your working day
Enter non-overlapping intervals. The result is a time budget, not a judgment of your worth or effectiveness.
Your calculation
- Remaining for focus
- 3:35
- Allocated
- 4:25
- Per year with the same routine
- 788 h
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The tool shows how time is allocated and how much of the working day remains. It does not measure result quality or grade a person. A meeting can be useful work, and a break an essential part of the day.
How to enter the inputs
Enter your working day length, the number and average duration of meetings, and time spent on email, social media, breaks and administration. Use non-overlapping intervals: if you read email during a meeting, do not count the same interval twice.
How to account for task switching
The number of switches is multiplied by your estimate of the time needed to return to a task. This explicit assumption can be set to zero or refined from observations. A universal 23 minutes is not applied to every switch.
An example working day calculation
An eight-hour day has 480 minutes. Two 45-minute meetings, an hour of email, 30 minutes of social media, 30 minutes of breaks, five 5-minute returns to a task and 30 minutes of administration use 265 minutes. That leaves 215 minutes, or 3 hours 35 minutes. This is an available budget, not a guarantee of deep work.
If the intervals do not fit into the day
The calculator shows the excess separately. Check for overlaps, meeting duration and your estimates. Do not try to compensate for a negative balance by reducing necessary breaks; review the plan itself first.
How to read the annual scenario
The remainder of one day is multiplied by your chosen number of identical working days. This is a scenario extrapolation. It does not automatically account for holidays, changes in workload or actual productivity: you choose the number of days.
What to do with the result
Choose one available interval and one task for it. Check actual time with the tracker, then refine the calculation. Your draft is saved locally; you can download the result without registering.
Time tracker — check the calculation against actual time. Daily planner — allocate available time to tasks.
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