Daydar social productivity framework.

Opportunity

We all use systems for organizing our cluttered schedules, from the day planner to Getting Things Done. One time-honored method, if messy, is writing to-do lists. Can making this process social improve the effectiveness and experience? Can you learn from the working styles of others? Can you collaboratively create an environment of healthy competition by being aware of your friends' daily accomplishments? Can this help you to find a better balance between work and play?

Solution

Daydar is a framework that tracks to-dos and shares metrics. Within this framework we are experimenting with various systems, both physical and digital, that allow you to monitor your own and others' productivity, help you to get motivated, and enable you to document and visualize the process of accomplishing whole projects.

In concert with Richard The.

desktop radar

Digital

Software written for Daydar includes a desktop 'radar' that shows you what sort of tasks - work, social, intellectual, physical, creative - your social group is doing right now, and a head-to-head game in which you challenge a friend to finish 5 tasks before you do.

toast

Physical

Objects that use the Daydar framework include a toaster that prints your metrics or a task that you can do before you leave for work, and a seven-bell alarm clock that pings once each time someone else checks off a to-do item after you hit the snooze button.