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Measure engagement for a productivity app

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Pair a north-star with hygiene metrics. North-star: weekly active creators with one substantive artifact. Secondary: time-on-task completed without abandonment; feature-specific: list-edit rate, share frequency. Anti-metric: support tickets and privacy opt-outs - so engagement doesn't grow at the cost of trust. Decouple via dashboard slice: engagement vs retention vs satisfaction scores. Define features and behaviors to log at ingestion time so the metric isn't deadlock-locked.

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