Charts

The Charts tab shows your time as bar charts, so you can compare days, weeks, months, and years at a glance.

Choosing what to show

• Day, Week, Month, or Year — how much time each chart covers. Day shows one bar per hour; the others show one bar per day or month.
• Apps, Tags, or Category — what each bar is split into: your apps, your tags, or your activity categories.

Each bar is made of colored sections, one per app (or tag, or category), and its full height is the total for that day. The ring shows how much of the whole period you spent tracked — for example, 40 hours out of the 168 in a week.

Use the arrows to go to the previous or next day, week, month, or year, or swipe left or right on a trackpad (or with a mouse that scrolls sideways).

On Day, a line under the chart shows sunrise and sunset, with a red marker for the current time. Hover the sun or moon for the exact time. To change where sunrise and sunset are worked out from, go to Settings → Appearance → Location: Automatic guesses from your time zone, or search for your city.

Looking closer

Click a bar to see just that day in the list below the chart. Click it again to go back to the whole week, month, or year. Apps with only a little time are grouped into Other so the list stays easy to read.

On Week, selecting a day also shows an Open in Timeline button.

Click an app’s, tag’s, or category’s icon to open its stats.

Tagging from Charts

Right-click an app, breakdown, or sub-breakdown to tag it (or remove a tag) for the bar you’ve selected or the whole period on screen. Tagging only fills time that doesn’t have a tag yet, and asks first if the period is longer than a month. Tag new activity with this works here too — see Tags.

Hiding weekends or weekdays

Settings → Activity Tracking → Days to include (All days, Weekdays, or Weekends) changes what Charts shows, along with Home, Calendar, and Activity. It’s handy for keeping quiet weekends from pulling down your weekday averages.

It only changes what you see. Tracking never stops, and goals, reports, Chat, Quick Search, the Local API, and the time in the menu bar still count every day.

For the same time laid out on a calendar — with the heatmap and daily summaries — see Calendar. To share it as a document, build a report.