Stop guessing where the day went.
Meetings, messages, and a dozen tabs — and at 6 PM you still can't say what you actually did. FocusMirror shows you your real focus time, your most fragmented hour, and one change to try tomorrow. It only ever sees your on-screen work, and the report is yours alone.
Busy all day, and nothing to point to.
The day fills with calls, threads, and tabs — each one feels like work, and none of it adds up to a block you can name. The calendar shows the plan; your memory tells you how it felt; neither shows what actually happened.
The fix isn't more discipline. It's visibility: seeing your real rhythm clearly enough to defend the time that does the work.
What the evening report looks like.
Daily report
Meeting-heavy day- · Led the planning sync
- · Unblocked the design review
“I was in meetings all day.”
Meetings filled the calendar; the only real focus block came at 4 PM, once the day finally cleared.
Example based on a common workday — your own report is built from your own week.
The workday, made visible.
- How much of the day was actually focused work
- Your most fragmented hour, named
- How much time went to meetings vs. making
- When your one real block actually happened
- What pulled your attention between calls
- One change to try tomorrow
Anyone whose output depends on deep blocks.
Flow that a single notification or drive-by can reset for ten minutes.
Maker time wedged between standups, reviews, and Slack threads.
Work that only pays off in sustained blocks, not five-minute gaps.
A calendar that quietly fills until there's no maker time left.
The cost of a fragmented day is real.
Switching between tasks carries a measurable efficiency cost that adds up through frequency.[source]Part of your attention stays stuck on the task you just left — "attention residue" that degrades the next one.[source] Interrupted work tends to still get finished, but you compensate with more stress and effort.[source]
Seeing the pattern is what lets you change it — and tracking progress toward a goal is associated with reaching it more often.[source]
Private by design — and we won't fake the proof.
No screenshots, no keystrokes, no employer dashboard. Every claim links to the page that proves it.
See where the day actually went.
Free to start, on your own Mac, with one honest reflection at the end of each day.
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- 2.Leroy (2009) — Attention residue — Leroy, S. "Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109(2), 168–181.
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- 5.Matcha et al. (2020) — Learning-analytics dashboards review — Matcha, W., Uzir, N.A., Gašević, D. & Pardo, A. "A systematic review of empirical studies on learning analytics dashboards: a self-regulated learning perspective." IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13(2), 226–245.
- 6.Harkin et al. (2016) — Monitoring goal progress — Harkin, B., Webb, T.L., Chang, B.P.I., Prestwich, A., Conner, M., Kellar, I., Benn, Y. & Sheeran, P. "Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence." Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229.