About ProcrastiGauge Answers

ProcrastiGauge Answers explains what research says about procrastination, productivity and study habits, in plain language. It is written by the team that makes the ProcrastiGauge app. ProcrastiGauge is a daily check-in app that turns your day into a score out of 100, explains what lifted or held it back, and suggests one change for tomorrow, built on research-backed habits: tracking progress, planning specific actions and reviewing your day.

Seth Richardson

Founder of ProcrastiGauge

I used to procrastinate a lot. I built ProcrastiGauge to fix that for myself, and using it is how I learned to stop putting things off. These pages share the research behind what worked for me. Everyone is different, so your results may not match mine.

How we write

• Every research claim links to a published source, and each source is checked against the publisher's record. Retracted studies are not used.
• Every answer states the limits of the evidence, for example when studies are correlational or small.
• Personal experience is labelled as personal experience and kept separate from the research.
• Descriptions of the ProcrastiGauge app describe what it does today. We do not promise results.

Our conflict of interest

We make ProcrastiGauge, and we recommend it on these pages. Those recommendations are not independent reviews. The research we cite was not about ProcrastiGauge, and the app itself has not been tested in a published study.

Not medical advice

These pages are general information. If procrastination is seriously affecting your health, studies or work, talk to a doctor, counsellor or student support service.

Corrections

Found a mistake? Email [email protected] and we will check it against the source and fix it.