Can I track focus sessions without a time block?

Yes. You can start a standalone focus session without attaching it to a block, though linking sessions to blocks gives you richer data about block utilization.

Does today use the Pomodoro technique?

today doesn't enforce Pomodoro intervals, but you can use it that way by creating 25-minute blocks and logging each as a focus session. The app is interval-agnostic by design.

Can I see my focus session history?

The weekly rollup shows session counts and completion rates across the last 7 days. Detailed session history per day is visible in the day view.

What's the difference between a focus session and a time block?

A time block is a planned commitment (9am–11am: deep work). A focus session is the actual work within that block — with a task label, start/end timestamps, and an outcome signal. Blocks are planning; sessions are execution.

Track your focus sessions and see where your deep work actually goes

today's focus session tracker logs what you work on, how long you focus, and whether it connects to your daily outcome. Honest data, no judgment.

What a focus session tracker measures

A focus session tracker records more than elapsed time. It captures the task you were working on, the intent behind it, whether the session was linked to your main daily outcome, and — after the session — whether it actually helped. That last field is the most underused in productivity tooling. Marking a session as 'not helpful' even after completing it surfaces a pattern most people never see: work that consumes hours but doesn't move anything meaningful forward. today tracks all four dimensions per session, giving you a weekly picture of how your focused time distributes across purposeful versus routine versus filler work.

Starting a focus session from a time block

In today, focus sessions attach to time blocks. When you're working inside a block labeled 'deep work — feature spec,' you start a session from that block. The session inherits the block's context, so you don't have to re-enter what you're doing. If the session spills past the block boundary, that's recorded too — a signal that either the block was too short or the task was scoped too broadly. The connection between blocks and sessions is what makes today's tracking feel natural: you're not maintaining a separate log, you're just timestamping the work you were already committed to doing.

The helped/didn't-help signal

When a focus session ends, today asks one question: did this help? It's a binary prompt, not a rating scale. The simplicity is intentional. Over weeks, the ratio of helpful to not-helpful sessions reveals something important: whether your focused work is actually moving your goals forward or whether you're in a loop of busy-but-stuck activity. It's the same question good managers ask at a quarterly review — 'did this effort produce the outcome we were after?' — but made into a daily habit so course corrections happen in days, not quarters.

How focus session data improves your planning

The cumulative data from focus sessions feeds back into planning. If you average 3.2 completed focus sessions per day, you know you can realistically plan 3–4 sessions rather than 7. If your sessions average 38 minutes, you know your default block should be 40 minutes not 90. If Monday sessions consistently log as 'not helpful,' that might be the morning to protect for low-stakes administrative work instead of deep thinking. today surfaces these patterns through daily stats without requiring you to build dashboards or run queries. The numbers are just there, every day, quietly updating.

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