Open the books on your hours.
One normal week. Every increment of your waking day gets attributed, or it shows as unaccounted — then you close the books each night. Seven statements is all it takes to see your real accounted %, your longest unbroken block, and the one hour that quietly leaks. It only sees your on-screen work, and it's yours alone.
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The free Ledger tier — a week of your own books.
Run FocusMirror for one normal week and close the books each night. Seven days is all it takes to see your real accounted % — where your hours actually go, which hour quietly leaks, and the one change worth making. No trial countdown, no card.
- Seven nightly statements — your real day, one card at a time.
- Your accounted %, your longest unbroken block, and your leakage — named.
- One concrete adjustment a day — seven small course-corrections in a week.
Account → Close → Read the P&L → Adjust.
People improve what they can see. Keeping books closes a loop: you account for the day's real shape, close it out each night, read the P&L, and change one thing. The change doesn't live in the dashboard — it lives in the one adjustment you make after it.[source] Tracking progress toward a goal is associated with reaching it more often.[source]
Account
Every increment of your waking day gets attributed — to a category, to a committed block, or it shows as unaccounted. No increment gets to hide.
Close the books
Each night, a three-minute ritual: resolve what's unaccounted, and the day renders as one statement — your accounted %, coverage of the books, never a grade on you.
Read the P&L
Categories roll up into Investments, Operations, and Leakage. You decide what's leakage; the ledger just prices it.
Adjust
One observation a night, never a lecture. Run the books for a week and where your hours actually go stops being arguable.
Behavior data alone rarely moves outcomes without a concrete prompt to act — so every closed day ends in exactly one observation.[source]
This is what the books look like, closed.
Your accounted %, the P&L by Investments / Operations / Leakage, your longest unbroken block — and a single adjustment to try tomorrow. Your own statement is built from your own week.
Daily report
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For people whose hours are worth too much to lose track of.
Practice, clubs, your side project, the lab — they already took the hours. So the hours that are left are the ones that have to count. The books tell you whether they did.
FocusMirror only sees your on-screen work — never your practice, your clubs, or your phone-off life. That's the point: it keeps honest books on the hours you spend at the keyboard, and leaves the rest yours.
Seven days. Your own data. See whether your hours count.
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- 3.Harkin et al. (2016) — Goal-progress tracking — Harkin, B., Webb, T.L., Chang, B.P.I., Prestwich, A., Conner, M., Kellar, I., Benn, Y. & Sheeran, P. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229.