How to use the app

There are three main ways you can use the app to help you with your work.

  1. Review your data daily, weekly, monthly for motivation, accountability, insight/clarity and a sense of achievement
    • Check what your main context switches are
    • See if your session lengths give you enough time to get into flow
    • Check if you’re spending your time the way you want to
    • Check if you’re working more or less than you think is optimal
  1. Session coach to nudge you throughout the day
    • Helps you get back on track if your day didn’t get off to a good start
    • Gives you quick personalised tips in between sessions to help your next session be more productive
  1. Social: Compete with friends to stay motivated

    Everything is more fun with friends!

    The social aspect of the app lets you see how other people are doing, and motivate you to do better. Join the public leaderboard, or create one with your friends

    Invite friends to use the app to get $ off your next subscription payment

Useful tips to make Magicflow your own

  1. Recategorization - If you notice an activity seems to be wrongly labelled as Working or Not working, or just has the wrong category, you can hover over the event and use the Quick-Recategorize tool to get it into the right category.
    1. Tip: It sometimes takes 30 seconds or so for the new category to filter down so if it seems like nothing has changed, check back in a minute!
  1. Custom contexts
    1. Context switches are tracked when you switch from one category to another, e.g. from Coding → Design, or Design → Slack.
    1. Sometimes the way you work doesn’t neatly fit into one category, but it’s still one mental context and you’re in flow - an example is software developers working on the “front-end” i.e. the user interface often are flicking between the Design files and the code.
    1. Magicflow lets you define a Custom Context just for you, which won’t count that type of switch as a context switch, and will let you set a parent context which that work falls into. Everybody works differently!
  1. Giving Feedback
    1. I love hearing from users, even if it’s about pesky bugs with things not working, but also when it’s new ideas on how I can make Magicflow better. The Help button let’s you get directly in contact with me, or you can email me at [email protected]