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There's a windows tool called Timesnapper that takes a screenshot every few seconds and let's you replay and navigate.

After reviewing a few days I learned to start focusing on one thing at a time.

It was cringeworthy to see how ineffective multitasking by switching between a few tasks was.

Absolutely. Watching your playback in TimeSnapper gives a lot of insights into the way a small distraction can derail you for hours (or it does for me, I mean)

It's amazing to me the kind of vulnerable personal responsibility and insights that occur prompted by simply seeing yourself and how you act, clearly. I heartily concur with the above comments and am super happy to see other people having this similar experience.

It suggests these kind of "mirroring" self-training practices and feedback might be useful across a whole range of endeavors, which sounds awesome. A super easy way to improve -- akin to people checking their reflection in a mirror -- that a bit of technology could really help with :)

Looks like it's available for macOS as well: https://timesnapper.com/

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