This new Google service wants to make you more productive

How many times have you spent time on a time-consuming application rather than moving forward on an important professional project? Procrastination is necessarily facilitated by various applications whose main goal is to capture attention, to the detriment of productivity. This is an increasingly important problem, and to solve it, Google is doing its part with Digital Wellbeing, a service whose aim is to inform you when you spend too much time on a time-consuming application rather than carrying out important tasks.

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 essentially allows you to improve the time spent on a smartphone. Digital Wellbeing can thus provide data on the use of its device on a daily basis in order to have a better idea of ​​its consumption, and try to minimize distractions. But that's not all: as of today, Digital Wellbeing has added an important new feature to facilitate user productivity.

A sticker to inform you of the time spent on a time-consuming application

Thus, the Google application offers, through a small thumbnail appearing at the top of the screen sporadically, to notify you when you spend too much time on an application (which you have selected beforehand). Let's take an example: if you consider spending too much time on X, to the detriment of productivity, you list X as one of the applications to follow in Digital Wellbeing. Subsequently, if you come to spend some time on Xa notification will appear at the top of your screen to let you know that you have already been using the application for a while.

There are applications on the market that allow you to block others, in order to avoid any form of procrastination: this is not the case with Digital Wellbeing, which simply takes care of informing you of the time spent on a distracting app. By keeping yourself informed, it is then up to you to choose whether to continue browsing or not. This new feature is now available on many Android smartphones, and Google is currently continuing to implement this update.