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EthnoClock
Before you start
Most people look through questions.
EthnoClock asks you to look before the questions arrive.
Watch what happens.
The things that matter are often visible long before anyone realises they're important.
Almost is for the thing that nearly happened — the word someone swallowed, the gesture that didn't quite finish. Use it when something started but didn't complete.
What are you noticing?
Quiet time
Put the phone down. Just watch.
Writing can get in the way of really looking. For the next five minutes, resist the urge to explain. Just watch.
5:00
remaining
Stay with it.
✓
You may have noticed more than you've written.
Revisit what you recorded. Which observation still feels unfinished?
What stayed with you?
Come back to this
Observations that haven't finished yet
Still true? Changed? Or something new to add?
EthnoClock· Watching
Field v131
Your observations
No observations yet.
Choose a place and begin watching.
Name it like a question — that keeps you curious.This sits at the top of every session. Not a goal — just a reminder of why you're here.
Moving mode: fewer prompts, no cluster analysis, quieter screen.
Watching
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Before you start
There are no categories here. Don't try to sort what you see while you're seeing it — that comes later. If you feel the urge to label something as you write, that's exactly the habit this tool is designed to interrupt.
Live question
reading your notes…
Look again
Adjust the prompts
Frequency
Style
Challenge
Across these notes
Something doesn't add up
After silence
8 minutes ago
Questions emerging
What you're not seeing
Silence
Stop writing. Just watch.
Writing can become a way of managing the discomfort of just watching. For the next five minutes, do nothing but look.
5:00
remaining
Stay with it.
Seed someone
Share this link with someone nearby. They register in under a minute and start seeing.
Generating link…
End or pause this session?
Review —
All notes
Ask your notes
Ask anything you've ever observed. Answers are built only from your own notes. Every answer shows where it came from.
How I see
Reading your observation history…
After you left ·
What stayed with you?
Still unfolding
Looking for unfinished thoughts…
Paused
Where you left off.
Reading your notes…
EthnoClock
What should we call you?
EthnoClock is for watching — not looking around casually, but deciding to stay with what's actually in front of you.
Choose your observational lens.
Each lens frames what you notice. You can change this before any session.
Ready.
Watching is a discipline. You're not recording impressions — you're deciding what to look at and staying with it long enough to notice what isn't obvious. That's different from seeing, which is what participants do. You're the researcher.