// features
Everything you check each day, and the answers you used to dig for.
Chronologue covers time tracking, activity and screenshots, then adds AI narratives and questions you can verify. Compare it with Time Doctor or Hubstaff.
// what it records
Capture
The desktop app records work while a person is signed in to your workspace, and shows in the menu bar while it runs.
- Apps and sites
- The app in front, its window title, and for browsers the page address, minute by minute.
- Activity level
- How many keyboard and mouse events happen each minute. Never which keys are pressed or what is typed.
- Idle and lock time
- When the computer is idle, asleep or locked, shown as such rather than as work.
- Screenshots, if you turn them on
- Every 1 to 30 minutes at a random moment. Blur is applied on the computer before upload, and nothing is taken while idle or locked.
- 09:05Figma · Checkout redesign
- 11:40Google Meet · Weekly sync
- 12:10Idle · screen locked
- 13:00GitHub · payments-retry: pull request
- 15:25Linear · Checkout redesign · review
Which keys: never recorded
// what it writes
AI that shows its working
Every AI answer and rating points back to the activity behind it.
- Daily narratives
- A written account of each person’s and team’s day, built from apps, titles, sites, meetings and commits.
- Ask about anyone’s day
- Questions in plain language, with each claim in the answer linked to its evidence.
- Explainable categorisation
- Apps and sites are rated automatically with the reason shown. Owners and admins correct a rating for a person, a team or the whole workspace.
- Insights
- Work-life balance signals and estimated software spend from the paid tools your team actually uses.
Most of the day went to the checkout redesign. The afternoon moved to the payments retry pull request after the weekly sync.
- 09:05–11:40Checkout redesign in Figma, then review comments in Linear
- 13:00–15:25Pull request for the payments retry flow on GitHub
Why: window titles match the Design team’s checkout project.
Each line links to the apps, window titles and screenshots behind it.
// the everyday tools
Time, pay and clients
The everyday tools for running a remote team.
- Timesheets and approvals
- Review and approve time by pay period.
- Schedules and attendance
- Planned hours next to what actually happened.
- Payroll
- Pay-period totals with a CSV export.
- Projects, clients and invoices
- Track project time and send invoices; clients can be invited to see their own projects.
| Person | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sam | 38:20 | Approved |
| Priya | 38:40 | Approved |
| Jun | 37:40 | Waiting |
// for your agents
For your agents and tools
The same data the web app shows, on every plan.
- CLI
- Call any capability from a terminal or script.
- MCP server
- Connect an AI assistant with a token you create and can revoke.
- REST API and webhooks
- Build on your workspace data and receive events in your own systems.
- Integrations
- Digests in Slack and Discord; meetings from Google Calendar and commits from GitHub as evidence.
$ chronologue timeline sam --day tuesday 09:05–11:40 Figma · Checkout redesign 11:40–12:10 Google Meet · Weekly sync 13:00–15:25 GitHub · Payments retry pull request $ chronologue payroll export --week 2026-10-12 --csv wrote payroll-2026-10-12.csv
// who decides
Control and retention
Owners decide what is collected; people can see what is collected about them.
- People see their own data
- Everyone can open their own timeline, narrative and screenshots.
- Roles and audit log
- Access follows roles, and sensitive actions are logged.
- Screenshot retention
- Kept 90 days at most; a workspace can choose a shorter period.
- Delete a day
- Owners and admins can delete a single screenshot or a whole day for a person.
- 14:31Screenshot deleted · Sam · by an admin
- 15:02Role changed · Jun · member to manager
- 16:10API call refused · a revoked token
// questions
Automatic time tracking: common questions
Does Chronologue need a timer to track work?
No. The desktop app records work while you are signed in to your workspace, so you do not need to start and stop a timer.
Does Chronologue record what I type?
No. It records the number of keyboard and mouse events each minute, not the keys you press, what you type or what you copy.
Are screenshots required for time tracking?
No. Screenshots are optional and only taken if your workspace turns them on. They are not taken while your computer is idle or locked.
Can people check their own activity data?
Yes. Each person can see their own timeline, narrative and screenshots in the web app.
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