Plan
Choose project tasks, add estimates and decide what a good day should produce.
Morning plannerFeature · My day
Your workday becomes
a live cockpit.
Pace, focus, applications, AI assistance and recovery stay on one visual route. You see what is happening now—and what would make the next hour better.
68%productive share
09:30 · take-off11:04 · fastest lap15:51 · break19:04 · now
Your daily operating loop
Five moments.
No reconstruction.
The personal cockpit is useful because it follows the workday end to end. Every stage produces the context needed by the next one.
Check in
Start the desktop tracker and keep project context attached as priorities change.
Start · pause · resumeNavigate
Read live pace, focus blocks, AI assistance and application activity as the day unfolds.
Live secondsReview
Confirm offline work, explain permitted gaps and see which tasks received the day.
Timeline reviewLand
Write outcomes, file the report and stop with tomorrow’s capacity still intact.
EOD · recoveryPace without pressure
One reading,
with context.
“Productive” is not a trophy for staying online. Desk8 compares productive share with your own baseline, your daily target and your recovery pattern.
The result is a useful flight instrument: 3h 52m productive of 5h 42m at the desk, four points above your average—not another score without an explanation.
Productive time
Compared with the way you normally work.
3h 52m ▲ 26m averageFocus blocks
Unbroken work, not merely an open application.
4 longest 1h 18mAI assisted
Visible as a share of output-supporting work.
2h 14m 39% of outputFastest lap · 11:04–12:22
Seventy-eight minutes in Figma. No context switches, no Slack—and it came directly after a break.
1h 18m best block in 3 weeksSince your last break
When pace starts fading, Desk8 recommends the landing—not more time.
3h 12m engine running hotActivity clock
The day reads
top to bottom.
A vertical scale anchors every application to the hour it was active. Recognizable app icons expand as you inspect them, while productive, neutral, idle and offline stretches remain spatially accurate.
Chrome · 22mDesk8 · take-off
Kimi · 35mSlack · 9m
Figma · 56m
Figma · 22mBreak · 20m
VS Code · 46mCopilot · 18m
ChatGPT · 44m
Start descent · now
Everything under your control
The tracker serves
the person using it.
Desk8 explains the day without taking ownership away from the individual. Clear controls, personal context and visible limits keep the experience practical.
Control the tracking state.
Start, pause, resume and end remain explicit. Desk8 never makes a silent assumption about whether the day is active.
- Visible current project and task
- Idle time stays idle until reviewed
Keep project context attached.
Switch tasks as the work changes. Project sessions remain available for the daily report without relying on memory at 6 PM.
- Project and task timers
- Offline work can be labelled
Understand your own baseline.
Pace compares with your average, focus blocks reveal conditions, and AI share explains the working method behind the output.
- Personal comparison, not a generic score
- Outcome-focused AI contribution
Review before anything is filed.
The end-of-day report remains deliberate. Drafts do not message the group, and permitted adjustments stay visible before submission.
- Draft, review and file states
- Clear locked-report boundary
A useful record of work,
not a perfect-looking timeline.Desk8 treats failed or unavailable timeline data as unknown—not automatically as zero work.
not a perfect-looking timeline.Desk8 treats failed or unavailable timeline data as unknown—not automatically as zero work.
Recognition without hour worship
A trophy cabinet
for useful outcomes.
Achievements reinforce focused delivery, healthy consistency and reliable reporting. Being online longest is never the badge.
Fastest lap
Your strongest uninterrupted focus block, with the conditions that helped create it.
1h 18m · week 34Turbo master
Recognition for AI-assisted output rather than raw time spent inside AI tools.
Top 3 outputFive for five
Every daily report filed with useful outcomes for the full working week.
Reliable rhythmClean sheet
A week completed without a ten-hour day—evidence that pace survived the schedule.
2 of 5 daysMy day · common questions
What the cockpit
actually means.
The personal page should explain its readings as clearly as it displays them.
Does a higher productive percentage always mean a better day?
No. Desk8 keeps productive share beside total desk time, focus, workload heat and outcomes. A shorter day with strong output and recovery can be better than a long day with a higher raw percentage.
Can I correct the timeline?
Only where your organization permits it. Allowed adjustments, view-only states and locked reports remain explicit so the timeline cannot quietly change after submission.
How does Desk8 know when AI helped?
Configured AI applications remain visible alongside productive activity. Desk8 then connects that assisted period to task pace and outcomes instead of treating an open AI tab as proof of productivity.
Who can see screenshots or detailed activity?
Access is permission-scoped. Screenshot visibility, capture permission and timeline detail can be independently controlled by role.
Box, box
Take the shower.
The work can wait.
Three hours twelve without stepping away, and input rate fell 18% in the last forty minutes. Twenty minutes away beats two more hours pushing.
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