Automatic activity tracker · Windows

Just the data.
No scores. No judgment.

DailyDash quietly records how you actually spend time on your PC, then turns it into honest, descriptive analytics — a day×hour heatmap, plain-language observations, real category breakdowns. No grades. No streaks to chase. Everything stays on your machine.

100% local No cloud sync No manual timers
Today Active
Active5h 12m
Active App · Today
5h 12m
Away 1h 06m · 34 sessions · peak 14:00
You've been active for 5h 12m, mostly on Development (58%), with 45m of gaming, most active around 14:00.
Development 3h 01m
AI 44m
Web 38m
Gaming 45m
Communication 16m
Local-only storage Zero scores or grades No manual timers Domain-only web tracking
01 How it works

It watches the clock so you don't have to.

Three commitments shape everything DailyDash does — and everything it refuses to do.

/ 01

Automatic, always

No start/stop buttons, no project pickers. DailyDash detects the active window, classifies it, and logs the session — silently, from the moment your PC boots.

/ 02

Descriptive, never judgmental

You'll never see a productivity score, a focus grade, or an Elite/High badge. Just measured facts: time, sessions, switches, peaks — and what they did compared to your own average.

/ 03

Yours, on your machine

Everything lives in a local SQLite database. No account, no cloud, no upload. Web activity is recorded as the domain only — never the full URL or page title.

02 The app

Four views. One honest picture of your day.

Today, Life Journal, Analytics and Settings — each built around real data, not motivational fluff.

Today

A calm snapshot of right now.

The day's active time, broken down by category in a donut, plus a one-line plain-English story and the numbers behind it. Click any app to drill into every session it had today.

  • Active vs. Away time, separated honestly
  • Top apps, websites, gaming & background media
  • By-the-numbers: sessions, switches, peak hour
TodayBy the numbers
By the numbers · today
Sessions
34
App switches
142
Switches / hr
18
Avg session
9m 11s
Longest stretch
2h 44m
Peak hour
14:00
Visual Studio Code2h 18m
Claude44m
chrome · github.com31m
Marvel Rivals45m
Life Journal

A chronological log of your day.

A Gantt-style ribbon of focus blocks and breaks, top to bottom, coloured by category. Search it, filter by workspace, and toggle Away time on or off to see the real shape of your hours.

  • Daily Activity Rhythm bar across the top
  • Every tracked block with time range & window title
  • 1 / 7 / 30-day ranges, search & workspace filters
Life JournalRhythm
Daily activity rhythm
Tracked blocks
14:02–14:46
Visual Studio Code
DailyDashApp · InsightsView.xaml
13:38–14:01
Claude
Heatmap implementation
13:10–13:37
Marvel Rivals
Tracked block
Analytics

Weeks and months, at a glance.

Pick a range and read the trends: active vs. away, sessions, app switches, a time-of-day rhythm, the activity heatmap, top apps and websites, and a trend line of active time over the period.

  • Weekly & monthly ranges
  • Time-of-day: morning / daytime / evening / night
  • Trend line of active time across the range
AnalyticsWeekly
Time of day · share of active
MORN 17%
DAY 48%
EVE 27%
NIGHT 8%
Active time · last 7 days
Settings

Tuned to your machine, not the cloud.

Group apps into Smart Focus Workspaces, override how anything is categorised, blacklist apps you'd rather not track, and export or prune your data — all locally.

  • Smart Focus Workspaces & custom categories
  • Export to CSV / JSON, prune old sessions
  • Launch at startup, minimise to tray, title privacy
SettingsWorkspaces
Smart focus workspaces
CodeON
VS CodeWindows TerminalDockerPostman
GamingOFF
SteamMarvel RivalsBattle.net
03 New in v3

See your week as a single picture.

The activity heatmap maps every day against every hour, so the rhythm of your week — the late mornings, the 2pm deep dives, the midnight sessions — becomes obvious at a glance.

Activity heatmap · day × hour
Less More
04 Observations

It tells you what happened. Never what to feel about it.

Each day, DailyDash surfaces a handful of plain-language notes under NOTABLE — comparing today to your own rolling average. Up, down, or flat. Facts, not verdicts.

▲ / ▼ / • mark direction of change vs. your average — not good or bad.
Active time +1h 12m vs your 14-day average
Development −2h 15m vs your 14-day average
Longest unbroken stretch: 2h 44m
Busiest at 14:00 — about 75% of that hour active
Busiest day this week: Tuesday (6h 02m)
Lots of app-switching — ~18/hr, typical visit 3m 22s
05 Categories

Nine categories. Yours to bend.

Every app is sorted automatically into one of nine colour-coded categories. Disagree? Override any app's category in a click — the colours follow you everywhere.

Development
IDEs · terminals
AI
assistants · copilots
Creative
design · video
Web
browsers · domains
Communication
chat · mail · calls
Gaming
games · launchers
Media
music · video · streams
System
explorer · utilities
Other
everything else
06 Privacy

Your day never leaves your desk.

DailyDash has no servers to phone home to. There's no account, nothing to sign in to, and nothing uploaded — by design, not as a setting you have to find.

Local SQLite, no cloud
All sessions live in a database on your PC. No sync, no upload, no telemetry account.
Domain only, never the full URL
Browser activity is recorded as github.com — not the page, query, or path.
Window titles are optional
Toggle title capture off entirely if you'd rather keep window names out of your journal.
Export & prune on your terms
Take everything out as CSV or JSON, or prune raw sessions older than six months. It's your data.
07 Updates

Release timeline

The newest build first. v3 is a clean break — heatmaps and honest observations in, scores and grades out for good.

v3.0.0
June 2026 · Now live
Major release

The scores are gone. The picture got clearer.

v3 rebuilds DailyDash around descriptive analytics. No productivity score, no focus grade, no AI metric — just the data, presented so you can read your own week.

  • Activity heatmap — a day×hour grid of when you're actually active.
  • Honest observations — plain-language NOTABLE notes vs. your own average.
  • Today analytics — story line, by-the-numbers, app-session drilldown.
  • Scores removed — every grade, badge and percentage verdict is gone.
v2.2.1
April 2026
Mini update

Quieter, smoother, better.

A polish pass that got DailyDash out of your way: a perfectly silent startup, cleaner background tracking, and an easier way to confirm your version at a glance.

  • Silent startup — no more Windows settings popping into view on boot.
  • Cleaner tracking — duplicate launch records detected and cleared.
  • No taskbar flashing — the orange flash after Away states is gone.
  • Version at a glance — a clearer build indicator under Settings.
08 Windows

Built for Windows.
Quiet by default.

Install from the Microsoft Store and DailyDash starts tracking from your next boot — with native notifications, automatic updates, and rock-solid offline performance.

  • Auto-updates through the Store
  • Native Windows notifications
  • Offline-first, local-only tracking
Get it onMicrosoft Store
Analytics · Monthly
Active time · this month
96h 41m
Sessions
612
Away
22h
Peak
15:00
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