Managing your team

App categories

Label apps and websites as productive, neutral or unproductive, mark meeting apps, and see what relabelling changes.

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App categories decide which apps and websites count as productive, neutral or unproductive in your workspace, and which count as meetings. They feed the productivity score and the meeting time in reports. TimeLogger ships with sensible defaults; you adjust them to how your team actually works.

Who can do this:OwnerAdminManagerTeam leads, members and auditors see the categories in reports but can’t change them.

Sample dataA few defaults from the Acme Studio demo workspace

App or website	Category	Meeting
Figma	Productive	No
Slack	Neutral	No
Zoom	Neutral	Yes
YouTube	Unproductive	No

Open App categories#

Go to WorkspaceApp categories. Search by name, show Apps or Websites, filter by category, or choose Changed by your workspace to see only your changes.

The App categories page listing apps and websites with a category menu, a Meeting switch and the source of each — App categories in the demo workspace.

Change a category#

Find the app or site
Use Search apps and sites.
Pick the category
Choose Productive, Neutral or Unproductive in its Category menu.
Mark meeting apps
Turn on Meeting for video-call apps. Time in them counts as meeting time and is left out of activity scores.

The Source column shows where each rule comes from: System default, Changed · default … when you’ve overridden a default, or Added by your workspace.

What changes, and when

Changes apply to new activity within about a minute and relabel the last 30 days of matching activity. Anything older keeps its category. System defaults are shared by every workspace — changing one here only changes it for you.

Go back to the default#

On a changed row, choose ⋯ → Use default. For something your workspace added, choose Remove — it goes back to unclassified. Either way the last 30 days are relabelled.

Add an app or website#

Choose Add app or site
At the top right.
Enter it
For an app, the Program name such as figma.exe or Figma. For a website, the Domain such as github.com — subdomains are included. Add an optional display name.
Pick a category and save
Turn on Meeting time if it’s a call app.

Worth labelling#

When people in your scope spend time in apps or sites with no category, a Worth labelling card appears at the top, listing the most-used ones from the last 14 days with one-click category buttons. Unclassified time doesn’t count for or against productivity, but too much of it makes the score show as insufficient. The card is hidden when there’s nothing to label, as in the demo workspace.

Category	What it means
Productive	Counts towards the productivity score.
Neutral	Left out of the score — never counted against anyone. Good for chat, email and browsers.
Unproductive	Counts against the score.
Unclassified	No rule yet. Left out of the score, and lowers classification coverage.

What the member sees

Categories are about apps, not people. The Worth labelling list shows only totals — never who used an app. Everyone sees how their own time is categorised on My activity.

Questions#

The browser shows as neutral, but the sites in it are productive. Which wins?

The website. When a site is known, its category is used; otherwise the app’s category applies.

Does changing a category change anyone’s approved hours?

No. Categories only affect productivity and meeting figures, never tracked or approved time.

Something unclear or out of date? Tell your workspace admin, or write to the TimeLogger team from Settings — we update these guides with every release.