Track how much focus time you put in each week

Friday afternoon, someone asks how your week went. You think it was good. You’re not actually sure. Weeks blur. The unfortunate truth is that the feeling of being busy and the reality of focused output don’t correlate well — you need a record.

Here are two ways to keep one.

Two paths

The native macOS way (Screen Time)

System Settings > Screen Time gives you weekly app usage. You can see how long you spent in Xcode, Figma, or a browser. It’s accurate at the application level and free.

The honest limitation: Screen Time measures time the app was frontmost, not time you were focused. Twenty minutes in your editor with Slack pinging every two minutes counts the same as twenty minutes of uninterrupted writing. There’s no concept of a “session,” no record of whether you took a break, no signal about whether the time was actually productive — just minutes per app.

For a directional view, it’s fine. For an honest week-by-week comparison, it’s noise.

The Tempo way

Tempo records every focus block you complete, then shows the week as a bar chart — Monday through Sunday — with daily totals and a rolling focus score based on your daily goal.

1. Open Tempo from the menubar and run your normal pomodoro sessions through the week.
2. Click the main window. The weekly view shows seven bars — one per day — with focus minutes stacked.
3. Hover any bar to see the exact total and the individual sessions that made it up.
4. Set a daily focus goal in Settings (most people start at 2 hours). The ring on the main window fills as you hit it.
5. Compare weeks at a glance — the focus score makes "this week vs last week" a real number, not a feeling.

Two things this changes. First, you stop arguing with yourself on Friday — the number is the number. Second, you start noticing patterns: which days are reliably strong, which afternoons collapse, which weeks the meetings ate. That’s the data you needed to actually plan around.