Dayflow

About Dayflow

Dayflow is an open-source automatic work journal and AI time tracker for the Mac that removes manual timers and tags entirely. It observes what you actually do and produces a readable timeline of the day — each block labelled with a category such as Coding, Research, Communication, Planning, or Distraction, given a plain-language title describing the real work rather than the app name, and expandable into a summary of what happened in that block. The output reads like a journal entry, not a bar chart of app usage: a coding block might record that you traced intermittent logouts to expiring refresh tokens, implemented silent token refresh with retry backoff, added regression tests, and opened a PR. It also surfaces small wins, including sustained focus stretches and recovery from drift. Beyond the raw timeline there are daily summaries, weekly summaries, and a chat interface, so the same day can be read at several fidelities. The practical payoff the product leads with is one-click status updates — Dayflow summarizes your progress so you can write a standup or a weekly update without relying on memory. Privacy is handled structurally rather than by promise: it is MIT-licensed and fully open source so the code is auditable, all screenshots are stored locally on your machine, and it can be configured to use local AI so that nothing leaves your computer at all. The project reports 6.1k GitHub stars and is backed by Y Combinator.

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