Check and correct your classification

TimerOS classifies your activity on your device, and you can check every decision. In about two minutes you will see why your current activity was labelled productive or idle, and correct the on-device model when it is wrong.

This works on every plan and needs no special role, only the desktop app running with the timer bar active. The correction buttons appear only in Automatic mode. In Rule-based mode, fixed rules make every decision, and in Manual mode nothing is classified automatically. You can switch modes yourself in Settings → Activity Detection.

1. 1Click the Dashboard button on the timer bar to open the dashboard window.
2. 2Open Settings (the gear icon at the bottom of the sidebar) and scroll to the Activity Detection section.
3. 3Read the Current Activity card. It shows your current label, which part of the classifier chose it (in brackets), a Why line with the reason, and the app and window title it read.
4. 4To see all the rules, click How your activity is classified. The dialog shows a live “Right now” panel, your employer’s custom rules (your own, on Freelancer), and the searchable Counts as Productive and Counts as Idle lists, split into apps and websites & tabs.
5. 5If the label is wrong, find Wrong? on the Current Activity card and click Productive or Idle next to it. That records the right label for what you are doing now.
6. 6You will see the message “Thanks — the classifier will learn from this”. The on-device model learns from your correction right away, and the window title never leaves your device.

The on-device model decides only when the rules give no clear answer, so a correction may not change a label set by a rule, and it doesn’t change time already recorded. For how the rule engine and the on-device model decide, read activity classification. For how productive and idle turn into break, overtime and off-work, see time states.