Work Patterns
Work Patterns capture the shape of your working day: how the hours split between focus, meetings, and breaks, how many interruptions and deep-work sessions there were, and how you felt. Over days and weeks, the records become your working rhythm — and TimeCampus turns that rhythm into honest, actionable insights.
Open Work Patterns in the TimeCampus navigation to see your daily patterns, summary, and insights.
What you'll learn
- What a work pattern records
- Record and review patterns
- The summary and typed insights
- Settings
- How patterns feed focus protection
What a work pattern records
Each pattern is one day, and captures both the day's structure and how it felt:
| Dimension | Fields |
|---|---|
| Structure | Focus hours, meeting hours, break hours |
| Focus quality | Deep-work sessions, interruptions |
| Wellbeing | Energy level, mood, stress level |
| Rhythm | Peak hours — the times of day you did your best work |
| Overall | A productivity score for the day |
The wellbeing markers are the part no automatic capture can see — two structurally identical days can feel completely different, and that difference is exactly the signal burnout detection needs.
Record a day
- Open Work Patterns.
- Record the day's split — focus, meeting, and break hours — plus interruptions and deep-work sessions.
- Add how it felt: energy, mood, stress.
- Save. One pattern per day; edit it if the day looked different in hindsight.
TimeCampus expects a plausible day — hours that add up to more than 24 are flagged rather than silently accepted.
Review the period
The page shows your patterns day by day across a date range, so structural drift is visible: focus hours shrinking, meeting hours climbing, breaks disappearing. These slow trends are invisible from inside any single day — which is the point of recording them.
The summary and insights
The work-pattern summary derives, for your selected period:
- Averages — productivity, focus hours, and meeting hours
- Most and least productive day — where your week peaks and dips
It also emits typed insights: each one names what was detected, describes it, states its impact, and carries a recommendation — for example, that your focus hours dropped while meetings climbed three days running, with a suggestion to rebalance. Sustained-overload insights are covered in Burnout signals.
If a period has no patterns, the summary is simply empty — TimeCampus doesn't fabricate a rhythm it hasn't seen.
Settings
Work Patterns → Settings holds your pattern-tracking preferences — tune how tracking works for you.
Your patterns are user-scoped: they are your record of your days. Team-facing use of this data is aggregate by design — nobody browses an individual's mood and stress entries. See the privacy model.
How patterns inform focus protection
Work patterns are the substrate the rest of Focus & Wellbeing reads:
- Focus Score — your daily score is calculated from the day's work pattern; richer patterns produce more faithful scores.
- Burnout signals — sustained-workload signals are read across your patterns over time.
- Peak hours — the pattern records when you do your best work. Use it today to place your Pomodoro sessions and defend the right hours in your calendar.
Adaptive focus protection — TimeCampus learning your rhythms from these patterns and proactively reserving and defending deep-work blocks in your peak windows — is on the roadmap. The patterns you record now are exactly the rhythm data it will learn from.
Tips
- Record at the same moment daily — end of day works for most people — so the wellbeing markers are comparable.
- Be honest about breaks. A day recorded with zero break hours should mean there were none, not that they felt unearned.
- After two weeks, look at your most productive days and copy their structure — the pattern usually shows a repeatable shape.
- Watch the focus-to-meeting ratio across weeks; it drifts slowly, and the summary insights will call it before you feel it.
Next steps
- Burnout signals — what sustained overload in your patterns triggers
- Focus Score — the daily number derived from your pattern
- Timeline — the captured day your pattern summarises