Try it for free. Test your productivity. Use the app for a day or two to take a temperature check, to see if you are productive, or not.
The Master Producer Score mobile app is a non-traditional productivity app. It graphs your productive time, distracted time and calculates a productivity score.
How it Works Fast: The app pings you during your work/school hours. If you are FOCUSED, on task and performing at a professional level then give yourself an 7 or 8 in the app. If the app pings you when you should be working but you are DISTRACTED then give yourself a 0, 1, 2 or 3. When the app pings and you are doing amazing, brilliant work give yourself a 9 or 10 but if you are just doing so-so then rate yourself a 4, 5 or 6.
Most productivity apps have to-do lists, calendars, Gantt charts and other project management features. They are trying to organize your work so you are more productive. This is not that kind of productivity app. This app is a self-help, personal development feedback loop of your work over time.
This app is for someone who wants to personally grade their work, and see the results graphed over time.
Feedback Loops: The idea behind the app
A “feedback loop” is where the outputs of a system are circled back and used as inputs. A feedback loop can be a profoundly effective tool for changing (or reinforcing) behavior. “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” — Elon Musk
The basic mechanics of the app
- Set your work, school, exercise schedule in the app. Set the hours you want to be productive.
- The app pings you every 20/30/60/or120 minutes so you can rate your work and time on a scale of 0 to 10.
- HOW TO RATE YOUR WORK and TIME
- FOCUSED RATINGS: 7 or 8. Giving yourself a 7 or an 8 is the benchmark you set for yourself. This is your day-to-day professional work mode where you are on-task and getting things done.
- MASTER RATINGS: 9 or 10. Giving yourself a 9 or a 10 means that you are performing at a very high level, above and beyond your normal work mode. This is when creativity and passion and inspiration are taking over and you are over-the-top excited about your work performance.
- DISTRACTED RATINGS: 0 to 3. Giving yourself a 0, 1, 2 or 3 is acknowledging and taking responsibility for the fact that you are completely distracted when you should be working. Get off Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram. Quit consuming amusing memes and get back to producing, studying, improving yourself, and making money for your family.
- MEH RATINGS: 4 to 6. Giving yourself a 4, 5 or 6 means that you are kind of working but really just “phoning it in”, bored, lazy or doing the bare minimum so you don’t get fired.
- THE MPS SCORE range is from -100 to +100
- The algorithm for the Master Producer Score (MPS) is pretty simple but not very friendly. If time is money then time distracted depreciates and so does your productivity score. It’s not easy to be among the best in your profession, and it’s not easy to get into the top 1%. If you want it, then you have to earn it, everyday. And this mobile app knows if you are really doing the work to get there.
- 7 RATINGS: 7s don’t move your MPS productivity score very much. It can increase or decrease your productivity score but only a little. The app expects you to be at a seven most of the time.
- 8, 9 & 10 RATINGS: 8, 9 and 10 ratings have a positive impact on your MPS score. Rate yourself an 8, 9 or 10 and your MPS productivity score goes up.
- 0 to 6 RATINGS: Rating your work and time from 0 to 6 and your MPS productivity score drops.
My “favorite” parts of the app
Personally, my productivity score is not that great. And, the app has this habit of pinging me when I am kind of distracted and should be working on something else. The notification pops up and it’s like “Whatcha doing?”. And I am not always on task. Usually this pushes me back on task.
The app’s dashboards really tell a story about how well you work, day to day and week to week. It’s a feedback loop of your work over time. The graphs show how well you have performed for the past FOUR HOURS, YESTERDAY, THIS WEEK and LAST WEEK.
The MPS Score Algorithm: The 7 rating is the magic number
Rating your work and time as a “7” in the Master Producer Score app is where you are supposed to be most of the time. When rating yourself a 7, you are honestly saying to yourself this is my day-to-day professional work performance. You are on task, and getting things done like a professional. As far as the MPS Score is concerned, if you rated yourself a 7 all day long then your MPS Score at the end of the day would be ZERO (0).
The MPS Score is informative but many of the graphs in the app provide much better feedback.
The MPS Dashboard and Graphs
- MASTER: Percentage of time you rated yourself an 8, 9 or 10
- FOCUSED: Percentage of time you rated yourself a 7
- MEH: Percentage of time you rated yourself a 4 to 6
- DISTRACTED: Percentage of time you rated your work-time 0 to 3
- MPS SCORE: Your master producer score for the selected time period. The score can range from -100 to +100
- RESPONSES: Number of times you answered (responded) to the app’s ping
- HOURS: Number of hours you worked based on the number of times you answered the app’s ping
This graph above displays how well have been working for the past four hours.
The above graph is a histogram (one of three). They display your Master Producer Score (MPS SCORE) from YESTERDAY, THIS WEEK and LAST WEEK. They also show how many times you rated yourself from 0 to 10 during each time period.
The above graph displays your daily MPS score for the past 14 days. MPS scores can rane from -100 to +100.
The above graph tracks how many times per day you rated your work.
The graph above tracks total hours per day. For example, if you responded/rated yourself at work 12 times in a day, then that’s four hours.
The chart above is bell curve that aggregates all user Master Producer Scores and then let’s you filter them by basic demographic date, adding substantial context to your personal MPS score.