In this chapter, we will show you how to leverage your data to understand how you can optimize your day for periods of uninterrupted time to focus on work:
Sessions are blocks of time throughout your day that Rize auto-detects as important. They are either meetings or time you spent focusing on work. Your Home tab shows you all of your sessions chronologically in the "Sessions" section.
The colors on the left side indicate whether you spent that time in a meeting (pink) or focusing on work (blue). Your dashboard also represents the same sessions in your timeline as small horizontal bars underneath your tracked time. For the purposes of this section, we will only concentrate on the focus sessions.
Focus is defined as time spent (longer than 15 minutes) on categories that are considered focus categories. You can change what these are in your settings. See the Defining Focus Categories section.
Hover over a Focus session for details on the session.
By default, all categories in Rize are considered focus categories with the exception of Email, Messaging, Entertainment, Personal, Uncategorized, and Miscellaneous.
In some situations, you might want to have some of these categories considered as focus work and others as not. For instance, if you are a venture capitalist and need to allocate time in your day to be strictly focused on emails and track that time as focus time, you can go to your General Settings page to remove "Email" from being excluded from focus detection.
