The scoring system, published openly.
PomoZentra is a Pomodoro timer and output tracker for founders and freelancers that scores each work session by what it produced, not how long it ran. A score you cannot inspect is a score you cannot trust, so here are the exact weights. The same numbers are shown live inside the app via the "How scoring works" popover.
The formula
Every focus round gets one score when you log it:
waste rounds always score the waste penalty
The remark bonus applies only when no countable outputs were logged, so writing a note on top of real outputs cannot inflate the number. A non-waste round never scores below its category base.
Category bases (defaults)
Categories you mark as priority carry a higher base. These are the defaults seeded by the role templates; the Founder template also raises Delivery and Learning with explicit overrides.
| Category type | Base score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Priority category | +4 | The work you flagged as the reason the day exists. |
| Delivery (Founder template) | +6 | Explicit override: shipped client work compounds. |
| Learning (Founder template) | +4 | Explicit override: deliberate study tied to a goal. |
| Non-priority category | +1 | Necessary, but capped so a full day of it cannot look great. |
| Personal | +2 | Life work belongs in the day and should not hurt the score. |
| Waste | −6 | The honest penalty. Unnamed waste becomes a fake work category. |
Output multipliers (defaults)
Outputs are the receipts of a round: real countable units. Each output type has a multiplier, editable in Settings. The defaults reflect leverage: a booked call moves a pipeline more than one more email.
| Output (template default) | Multiplier |
|---|---|
| Calls booked / sales made | ×8 |
| Posts published (Creator template) | ×4 |
| Sponsor touches (Creator template) | ×3 |
| Most outputs (emails, proposals, client tasks, drafts) | ×2 |
| Audience replies (Creator template) | ×1 |
| Remark-only bonus (no outputs logged) | +2 |
Weights last synced with the app's source on June 12, 2026. The in-app popover always shows your live, possibly customized values; if this page ever disagrees with the app, the app is right and we owe this page an update.
Priority Work %, the hero metric
The output score rewards a good round. Priority Work % judges the shape of the whole day: of all non-waste focus minutes, what share went to categories you flagged as priority? It is deliberately simple, hard to game, and readable in one glance. The score answers "was this round worth it"; Priority Work % answers "is my best time going where I said it should".
Designed against self-deception
No leaderboard, no streak theater, no boss view. Waste subtracts. The remark bonus cannot stack on outputs. Trends and the wins-and-leaks readout are computed only from your real logs, and when there is not enough data the app says so instead of inventing insights. The only person this system reports to is you.
Run one round. Watch it get scored.
Free during beta. The scoring popover in the app shows these same weights against your own categories.