Short, specific answers on screen recording privacy, AI analysis cost, and why time trackers don't change behavior.
What local-only screen capture actually stores, the risks to check, and the settings that keep a self-audit private.
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Real token math: analyzing 8,640 lines of screen metadata with a cheap model costs about a cent a day. Here's the breakdown.
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Category dashboards don't change habits because they lack a named behavior and a mechanical fix. Here's what the loop needs instead.
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A polling loop is repeatedly re-checking the same page for updates. How to detect it in screen data and replace it with a digest.
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We tested 1s, 5s, and 60s screenshot intervals for self screen audits. Here's the storage math, signal quality, and why 5s wins for most peo
Time blocking works when blocks match your real task-switch cost and calendar honesty—here's the arithmetic, the failure modes, and the fix.
Self-reports say 15 checks/day; screen logs show 60-120 email touches. We break down the gap and the arithmetic behind it.
Knowledge workers lose roughly 1-3 hours daily to context-switching, notifications, and low-value tabs. Here's the honest math, with sources
Checking your phone at your desk isn't a willpower failure — it's a cue-response loop. Here's how to break it with mechanism fixes, not disc
What task-switching research actually measured, and why "multitasking" mostly means rapid switching with a real, measurable time cost.
Attention residue is the lingering cognitive drag after a task switch. Here's the arithmetic on what it actually costs per switch, per day.
The free watcher + local stats report. No card, no account — just your context-switch count by tonight.