When do you actually watch YouTube? The hourly heatmap that surprised me.
I thought I watched YouTube in the evenings. My heatmap said I drifted mid-afternoon. The gap between those two things is where the real data lives.
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Insights on YouTube habits, attention management, and building a healthier relationship with video content.
The Diversity Score: when your YouTube watch history collapses into 3 channels, something is wrong.
Low diversity in your watch history is an earlier warning sign of a doomscroll spiral than watch time spiking. My 90-day data showed the collapse before I felt it.
Why I keep my YouTube data on my own server (and why that matters for a behaviour tracker).
A tool that watches what you watch is the last tool you want sending your data to a third party. Here's why Gazenest is built differently, and why that choice was non-negotiable.
I imported 6 months of YouTube history. Here's the timeline of how my attention broke.
Six months of watch history is a precise record of where your attention went. Looking at mine was uncomfortable in the specific way that honest data always is.
Customise Feed: I hid Shorts, side recommendations, and the homepage. Here's what YouTube looks like underneath.
Strip back the YouTube interface and something interesting happens: the content you actually came for becomes visible again. Here's what the Customise Feed controls do and why I use them every day.
Your Clarity Score is the one number that tells you if you meant to watch what you watched.
Duration tells you how long you were on YouTube. The Clarity Score tells you whether any of it was intentional. One month of personal data showed me patterns I couldn't unsee.