Cadence Journal

Cadence is a personal field notebook for how you spend your time. --- ### What Makes Cadence Different **Untracked Time Is Visible** Most apps hide the time you forget to log. Cadence treats it as information. Gaps in your day — the 20 minutes between meetings, the hour that disappeared after lunch — appear directly in your timeline as first-class entries. Tap to fill them or leave them as-is. Either way, you see the full picture. **Remarks Over Numbers** A time entry without context is just a number. Cadence lets you attach Remarks — short, taggable notes — to any activity block as it's happening. "Finally cracked the auth bug #backend," "Third interruption this hour," "Good conversation with Sara #1on1." Your day becomes a narrative you can search and revisit, not a pie chart. **Two Ways to Track** Not everyone tracks the same way. In **Start mode**, tap an activity and a timer runs forward — classic stopwatch tracking. In **Log mode**, tap an activity to label the time since your last entry — no timer needed, just retroactive labeling. Switch between modes freely depending on what suits the moment. ### Core Features **Activity Sets & Schedules** Organize activities into named Sets for different contexts — Work, Personal, Study, whatever fits your life. Schedule them to switch automatically by time of day and day of week. Your tracking palette adapts to your rhythm without manual intervention. **Morning Intentions & Evening Reflections** Cadence prompts you to write a brief intention each morning and a reflection each evening. These frame your day with purpose on one end and awareness on the other. They're optional, never nagging, and appear alongside your data when you review a day. **Smart Timeline** Your day is rendered as a continuous stream: activities, gaps, and remarks woven together. Tap to expand details, double-tap to add a note inline, swipe to edit or delete. Conflicts and overlaps are detected automatically and surfaced for resolution. **Tag Analytics** Every #tag you write in a Remark becomes searchable and filterable across your entire history. See which tags appear most often, which activities they cluster around, and how their frequency changes over time. **Reports** Daily, weekly, and month-to-date reports with activity breakdowns, comparisons to prior periods, a focus quality score derived from context-switch frequency, and highlighted remarks from the period. --- ### Your Data, Your Device Cadence is built on a strict Local-First architecture. There are no servers, no user accounts, no analytics SDKs, no advertising code, and no subscriptions. - **Full JSON Archives** — Back up your entire database, including every remark, note, and setting, to a portable JSON file. - **Granular CSV Export** — Export your timeline with configurable columns for analysis in any spreadsheet or scripting tool. - **Privacy by Design** — We cannot see your data and we don't want to. Your information lives on your device and in your iCloud backups. That's it.