Working Hours: Score Your Workday, Not Your Whole Day

The same laptop is your office at 10am and your living room at 10pm. Without boundaries, an evening of browsing drags down the score of a perfectly good workday — and the number stops meaning anything. Working hours fix that.

Setting it up

Go to Settings → Tracking → Working Hours and set a start and end time. That's it — the setting syncs with your account, so it follows you across machines.

What changes

• Your Focus Score covers only your working hours. The today strip on the Focus page gets a small "Work hours" label so you always know what you're looking at. That 9pm YouTube session? Recorded, but no longer part of your workday's grade.
• Productivity gets a Time scope selector: Work hours, Off hours, or All day. The same charts, three different questions — how was my workday, what do my evenings look like, and everything combined.
• Nothing is hidden. When activity falls outside the current scope, a notice tells you exactly how much — "2h of activity fell outside your working hours" — with a one-click switch to see the full day.

Working hours vs. the Personal category

These two solve different problems, and they're better together:

• Working hours scope the when: everything outside the window is off the books for your score.
• The [Personal category](/guide/focus-score) marks the what: your banking app is personal at 2pm too, and marking it Personal keeps it out of the score even mid-workday.

Who should use this

If your machine is work-only from nine to five and off at night, you may not need it. But if you're a freelancer with odd hours, a student mixing study and life on one laptop, or anyone whose evenings live on the same screen as their job — this is the single setting that makes your Focus Score tell the truth about work. It also sets the available hours behind Utilization in Reports.