Timeline
The Timeline is the heart of TimeCampus: a chronological view of your day, automatically assembled from your time entries, meetings, pomodoro sessions, email activity, and channel capture events. Instead of a pile of disconnected records, you get one coherent, scrollable picture of where the hours actually went — categorised, summarised, and honest.
Open Timeline in the app at app.timecampus.com to see it.
Reading the timeline
The timeline lays your day out in order. Each block on it represents a stretch of tracked activity, drawn from one of your sources and categorised by the kind of work it was. Scanning top to bottom answers the question every time tool should answer but rarely does: what did today actually look like?
- Blocks are ordered chronologically, so meetings, focus stretches, and communication bursts appear where they happened
- Each block carries a category (see below), so you can see the shape of the day at a glance — not just that time passed, but what kind of time it was
- A day summary at the top condenses the day into the two numbers that matter most: focus ratio and context switches
The category model
Every block on the timeline is categorised as one of four kinds of work:
| Category | What it means |
|---|---|
| MEETING | Scheduled or ad-hoc meetings — synchronous time with other people |
| DEEP_WORK | Focused, uninterrupted work — the hours that move things forward |
| COMMUNICATION | Email, chat, and other asynchronous coordination |
| BREAK | Pauses and recovery time between stretches of work |
Four categories is deliberate. The goal is a picture you can read in seconds — meetings versus deep work versus communication versus breaks — not a taxonomy you have to maintain.
The day summary
Above the blocks, the timeline shows a summary of the day:
| Metric | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Focus ratio | The share of your tracked time spent in deep work. A day that felt busy but shows a low focus ratio is a day that went to meetings and coordination — now you can see it. |
| Context switches | The number of transitions between different kinds of work across the day. Every switch has a cost; a high count surfaces the hidden tax of fragmentation that no single block reveals. |
These are insights in the TimeCampus sense: legible trends turned into decisions. The aim isn't a dashboard to admire — it's noticing that Tuesdays have twice the context switches of Thursdays, and moving your deep work accordingly. Your focus score and work patterns build on the same signal over longer horizons.
Where the timeline comes from
The timeline assembles itself from the sources you already use in TimeCampus:
| Source | What it contributes |
|---|---|
| Time entries | Tracked and manually entered work time |
| Meetings | Your meeting blocks and their cost |
| Pomodoro sessions | Focused work sessions and their breaks |
| Email tracking | Time spent in email |
| Channels | Capture events from your connected channels |
Each source is recorded independently; the timeline merges them into one ordered view. A source with no data for a day simply contributes nothing — the timeline shows what it has rather than erroring. If you've opted out of a capture source, the timeline degrades gracefully without it.
Broader automatic capture — the always-on engine that fills these sources from every connected tool (calendar, editor, chat, browser) without any manual entry — continues to expand. Today the timeline composes what your sources record; as live channel sync ships, more of that recording happens for you. See Channels and the roadmap.
Correcting the timeline
The timeline is a view over your underlying records, so corrections happen at the source:
- A mislabelled or wrong-duration work block → edit the entry in Time entries
- A missing stretch of work → add a manual time entry for it
- Meeting, pomodoro, or email blocks → adjust them on their respective surfaces
The timeline reflects the corrected records the next time you view it. Manual corrections aren't a failure of automation — they're how you keep the picture honest for the moments automation can't see.
Privacy
The timeline only shows what your sources and channels capture — and that capture is under your control:
- No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no idle-time policing — blocks describe what kind of work happened, never its content
- You choose the sources. Turn a channel off and it stops contributing; the timeline composes only what you've opted into
- Your timeline is yours. It is scoped to you within your workspace; team-level views elsewhere in the product are aggregate by design and never expose an individual's timeline
For the full picture, read the Privacy model and Data controls.
Next steps
- Channels — connect and control your capture sources
- Analytics — trends across days and weeks
- Focus score — how your deep-work signal trends over time
- Reports — export what the timeline shows