Tempo Activity Feed - Understanding and Management

Tempo Activity Feed is designed to assist you in capturing your time spent in many sources within your work ecosystem. Its purpose is to track your activity in other systems and create worklog suggestions in Tempo for later when you want to log your time.

In the background, Tempo is keeping track of all of your work throughout the day so that when you’re ready to log your time, you have intuitive suggestions from the apps you recently worked in.

Understanding How the Activity Feed Works

Signals and Strengths

Tempo listens for your activity (signals) on platforms you’ve connected via the Activity Feed. The more active you are, the more signals Tempo is gathering. The more active you are in a specific issue or the type of actions you perform (such as accepting a meeting request) will determine the strength of a signal.

These signals are weighed and assessed by Tempo and then an Activity Card suggestion is placed in your My Work Calendar for a specific time period. Tempo only suggests one activity per time period.

For example, based on your work in Jira, the Activity Feed may place a suggestion in your My Work calendar for a 1-hour period. You may have worked on several Jira issues, but based on your activity, Tempo has determined that this Jira issue should be presented based on its signal strength.

If the suggestion from the Activity Feed does not reflect the time you want to log, you can delete the suggestion. The Activity Feed may provide another issue to log in that period of time, or you may even see two issues, one each for the strongest signals for two consecutive 30-minute periods - activities with the strongest signals for their smaller respective time periods.

Activity Feed will remove any suggestion for a period of time when work is logged for that period. Also, there will never be multiple suggestions for the same time period.

Deleting a worklog, plan etc., will prompt Tempo to place a suggestion in that period if there is an activity signal available that corresponds to the free time. If no activity signals are available for the time period, the space will remain free.

This process allows Tempo to continually interpret and analyze signals to provide you with its best recommendations to assist you in logging your time.

The ranking of feeds into Tempo

Signals, whether from similar platform activities or not, will always be assessed on a number of variables. Again, it is important to remember that these are activity suggestions based on inputs across multiple platforms and not a single value.

However, some platforms are given precedence by the Activity Feed. Signals created inside Tempo (worklogs and plans) will always displace suggestions from external feeds (calendars, Jira, etc) on your My Work Calendar. This is the pecking order in general:

• Worklogs will displace plans

• Plans will supersede calendar events

• Calendar events take precedence over Jira activities

Managing Your Activity Feed

Depending on how active you were and how you interacted with different systems, there can be a large volume of activity feed information for you to process. Sometimes the activity feed can seem (and look) like information overload. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are some effective methods you can use to manage your activity feed that will help you get the most out of this feature, such as filtering out Jira activities if you don’t want to see them at this time. 

Review these suggestions from the Tempo Help Center to assist in configuring and managing the Activity Feed to suit your needs.

Setting your working hours in my work

Connecting and disconnecting your activity providers