Rate your day across 5 dimensions: focus, energy, planning, task completion, and wellbeing. Get your daily productivity score.
Task Completion
How many of your planned tasks did you complete today?
Focus
How many hours of focused, deep work did you do today?
Focus
How many times were you distracted by phone/social media?
Energy
Did you exercise or move your body today?
Energy
How was your sleep quality last night?
Planning
Did you plan your day in advance (the night before or morning)?
Energy
How well did you manage your energy throughout the day?
Goal Progress
Did you make progress on your most important goal today?
Wellbeing
How would you rate your stress level today?
Wellbeing
Did you take proper breaks during your work day?
The Productivity Score is a free online assessment tool that measures your current productivity across five key dimensions: focus, energy management, task organisation, habit consistency, and work-life balance. Unlike simple to-do list trackers, this tool gives you a holistic score that identifies your specific productivity strengths and weaknesses, then provides personalised recommendations to improve. Understanding where you lose productivity is the first step to reclaiming it.
Answer each question honestly — there are no right or wrong answers, only accurate or inaccurate ones.
Rate your current habits and behaviours across the five productivity dimensions.
Submit the assessment to receive your overall productivity score out of 100.
Review the breakdown by dimension to identify your weakest areas.
Read the personalised recommendations for each dimension.
Use the Pipstario Productivity Planner to implement the recommended improvements.
True productivity is not simply about doing more — it is about doing the right things, at the right time, with the right energy. Research in cognitive science, behavioural psychology, and organisational behaviour identifies five key dimensions that determine overall productivity.
Focus is the ability to direct sustained attention to a single task without distraction. In an age of constant notifications and open-plan offices, deep focus has become a rare and valuable skill. Research from UC Irvine found that it takes an average of 23 minutes to fully refocus after an interruption — meaning a single notification can cost nearly half an hour of productive time.
Energy management recognises that productivity is constrained by biological energy, not just time. Managing sleep, nutrition, exercise, and stress determines the quality of cognitive performance available throughout the day. High performers optimise their energy first, then their time — scheduling their most demanding work during their peak cognitive hours.
The most impactful productivity improvements address the highest-leverage dimensions first. For most knowledge workers, focus is the highest-leverage dimension — eliminating distractions and creating conditions for deep work produces the greatest productivity gains per unit of effort.
The single most effective focus improvement is eliminating phone notifications during work. Research shows that even the presence of a smartphone on a desk (face down, silent) reduces available cognitive capacity by 10% compared to having it in another room. Removing the phone entirely during focused work sessions is the highest-ROI productivity change most people can make.
Energy management improvements — particularly sleep optimisation — have outsized effects on productivity. A person sleeping 6 hours per night performs at the cognitive level of someone who is legally drunk (0.1% blood alcohol) after two weeks, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania. Prioritising 7–9 hours of sleep is the highest-leverage health and productivity intervention available.
Even a silent phone on your desk reduces cognitive capacity by 10%. Put it in another room during focused work sessions for maximum concentration.
Willpower and cognitive performance are highest in the morning. Schedule your most challenging, highest-value work before checking email or attending meetings.
Constant email checking fragments attention and creates reactive rather than proactive work patterns. Check email 2–3 times per day at scheduled times rather than continuously.
Sleep deprivation is the single biggest productivity killer. 7–9 hours of quality sleep produces more productive hours than any other intervention. You cannot out-hustle sleep deprivation.
Spend 10 minutes each evening writing your top 3 priorities for the next day. This primes your subconscious to work on solutions overnight and eliminates the morning 'what should I do first?' decision.
Schedule creative and analytical work during high-energy periods. Save administrative tasks, emails, and meetings for low-energy periods. Working with your energy rhythms rather than against them dramatically improves output quality.