Features

Dashboard

The Zivot dashboard displays not only totals of the time you've spent on your various activities, but also how close you are to any targets you've set. You can set the dashboard to display a particular range by default, normally the past 7 days, or instantly view other time ranges.

From the dashboard you can also start a session for any activity, and view and update any notes you may have entered for any activity. In addition, the dashboard displays a pie chart of the proportion of time you've been spending on your activities.

Statistics & Charts

Zivot offers a wide and always expanding range of statistics and charts, but the most basic statistics and charts are for time spent on various activities, and proportion of time per activity.

One of the most important charts is of the proportion of time spent on activites of varying levels of importance. In addition, if you have marked certain activities as "proactive" or "transformative" or "visionary," you can view the proportion of your activities for any time range that were in those categories.

Weekly Report

By default, a weekly report is sent to you by email presenting basic information on the activies you've entered on Zivot:

Journal

The journal allows you to freely enter any information you'd like, day by day, and then instantly retrieve that information later. You can configure the journal for categories such as work, personal, current events or any other category that is meaningful to you.

Four text fields are available, as well as two numeric fields. Use the numeric fields for recording business items such as number of sales, phone calls, business cards handed out or personal info such as body weight, mood or the number of times you did something.

Storage & Retrieval

Any information you enter into either activity sessions or the journal you can retrieve later instantly, in highly organized form that includes the exact dates, and the number of instances. A complete display of the activity sessions and journal entries that include the search term is presented, which can then be either printed out, or converted to PDF.

You can also view all the information from activity sessions, for any date range, and for either all activities or only one particular activity. This display can also be instantly prepared for printing, or conversion to PDF.

Performance Tracking

You can use Zivot to track your performance level for any activity, and for any date range. This feature is optional within each activity. If you turn this feature on for an activity, you can rate the quality of each of your sessions on a scale of 1-10. Once you have recorded a significant number of sessions, you will be able to chart your progress over time, and even immediately know your average quality rating for any given date range.

Privacy

By design, Zivot is absolutely private. Your use of Zivot is completely private, unless you make a consious and deliberate effort to share outside of Zivot. Zivot does not share your data with anyone, and Zivot does not use third-party tracking of any kind. Zivot also has no relationships whatsoever with any other data or tech firm. Your use of Zivot is entirely your private concern, and exclusively for your own benefit.

Sharing

If you do choose to share any information you've entered on Zivot, a specific and sharply limited form of sharing is available as a feature. For any activity you enter, you can choose to turn the "sharing" feature on. This feature generates a private, unguessable long URL which you can then send to individual people you think would be interested in what you're up to in that activity. The sharing feature works very well for keeping others informed of important information, while maintaining privacy through the unguessable URL. At any time, you can have Zivot generate a brand new URL for any activity.

Speed

Zivot is optimized for speed, and is one of the fastest sites on the entire web. Nearly every page on Zivot loads completely in less than 1/4 of a second, even over a relatively slow connection. The slowest page on Zivot still loads in less than one second. We want to save you time, so we have put a lot of effort into making sure Zivot is as fast as possible.

User Guide

A complete user guide for Zivot is available in the primary navigation of every part of the application. The user guide offers not only information on how to use Zivot, but recommendations on how to apply Zivot in different ways that may not have occurred to you.