ObservatoryIt won't fool you. It won't shame you.
Every number and sentence in Observatory comes from your own sessions. Here is exactly how it counts.
Focus. Pause. Drift.
Run a tiny session. Pause it, leave it, come back. Watch which seconds make it into the big number and which do not.
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Focus 0sPaused 0sDrifted 0s
The big number only counts focus. Pauses and drifts are tracked, shown, and never added.
- What counts as focus
- A focus session runs while the app is open on the task you chose. Only that time is added to your focus total. Nothing is estimated, and nothing is rounded up.
- What a drift is
- If you leave Observatory during a session, that is a drift. A gentle reminder invites you back. The time you were away is recorded as drift, shown to you, and never counted as focus.
- What a pause is
- If you pause a session on purpose, that is a pause. It is tracked so you can see how your sessions really run, and excluded from focus time the same way a drift is.
- Why it says "not enough data"
- Patterns need a sample. With only a handful of sessions, the app tells you it cannot say yet rather than guessing. When it does say something, it tells you how many sessions it is based on.
- A quiet day is not a failure
- No streaks to break, no penalties. A light week is called a lighter stretch, and the review moves on. The goal is an accurate picture you will keep looking at, not a scoreboard you will avoid.
- What we don't do
- We don't inflate focus time with paused or drifted minutes. We don't invent insights. We don't sell your data or show ads. See the privacy policy.
