Before we get started building the smart productivity cube, let me first explain what exactly we are going to build and why.
Many people seem to suffer from the same problem: they feel like they have too little time and wonder where their time went. There are already plenty of time-tracking applications for desktop computers, smartphones, and tablets, such as Toggl (https://toggl.com) and Harvest (https://www.getharvest.com), that address this problem. All of them serve the same purpose—counting how much time you spend on what activities, so you have a better understanding of how you use your time. This is either used for personal insights or professionally, for example, to count billable hours when working for a client. Most of them work like a stopwatch does—you manually start and stop a timer, one per task.
While most of these...