The Calendar & Owning Your Data
Open any tracked day title by title, turn records into timecards, and know exactly what FocusNow keeps, exports and deletes.
Updated September 26, 2026
The Focus page answers "how is today going?" The Calendar answers a different question: "what was I actually doing last Tuesday?"
Browsing your history
Open Calendar and you get your month at a glance: each day shows its tracked total and a bar of focus, neutral, personal and distraction time, with a weekly total at the end of each row. If you use timecards, the top of the month shows Tracked, Billed and Not billed, and each day also shows how much of it reached a timecard.
Click any day for the full record, led by window titles, not just app names, so "Chrome, 3 hours" becomes the actual documents, tickets and tabs your day was made of. Looking for something specific? The day view is searchable. "When did I last work on the quarterly report?" is a search away.
From a day to a timecard
The day view has two tabs: Records and Timecards. On Records, select the window titles that belong to one client and press Create timecard. The entry keeps those records attached as evidence. The whole flow is in Timecards: From Tracked Time to Client Hours.
How far back it goes
Every day back to your very first tracked record can be opened. FocusNow doesn't delete what's on your computer by age; your local history stays until you delete it.
The copy synced to your account works differently: activity logs, sessions and AI reports expire from the cloud after 12 months, while timecards, projects, clients and work statements don't expire, because they're your billing records.
Your data, your controls
Everything FocusNow knows about you sits behind a few clear controls:
- Exclude before it's recorded. Settings → Privacy lets you exclude any app or website from tracking. Excluded items are never recorded in the first place, not just hidden.
- Delete selectively. In Activities, the ⋯ menu on any app or site includes Delete records: remove one thing's history without touching the rest.
- Export everything. Settings → Account → Export your data downloads a single JSON file with your activity, sessions, profile and AI reports. Timecards also export as CSV from the Timecards page, and work statements as PDF or CSV from Billing.
- Delete everything. Delete my account in the same place permanently removes your account and data, in the cloud and on your device. It asks you to type your email to confirm, because it can't be undone.
The full picture (what's collected, where it's stored, for how long) is in the privacy policy. The short version has been our promise from day one: no screenshots, no keystrokes, and you hold the delete key.