Understand activity · 3 min
Patterns, not surveillance.
The Analytics window turns privacy-safe hourly totals into a simple heatmap. It shows when activity happened while keeping the content and context of your work out of the data.
Read the heatmap
Open Analytics from the menu bar. Days run from newest to oldest; each row contains 24 local hours. Deeper green indicates a higher activity intensity relative to the visible history.
Hover over a cell or select it with the mouse, Tab, or arrow keys to see its date, local-hour range, action count, hourly APM, and monitoring coverage. The current hour is outlined and the view refreshes every five minutes.
What hourly APM means
APM means actions per minute. An action is a privacy-safe count of a physical key down, a mouse-button down, or one reduced scroll gesture or burst. APM is useful for comparing broad rhythm across hours; it is not a measure of words typed, productivity, or work quality.
Coverage keeps the chart honest
A zero can mean “monitoring was active and no actions were counted.” It should not be confused with an hour when monitoring was off. APM Explorer stores aggregate monitoring duration so the chart can distinguish these states.
| Appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Black | Monitoring was available, with zero counted actions. |
| Green | Counted activity; deeper green represents greater relative intensity. |
| Muted gray | Monitoring was not available for that hour. |
| Partial | Monitoring covered only part of the hour, often around launch, sleep, or a permission change. |
| No data | The hour falls outside available local history. |
What not to infer
A high-activity hour is simply an hour with more counted input. It does not know whether that work was valuable, focused, or even work-related. Use the chart as a prompt for reflection, not as a scorecard.