Where did the day actually go?
Paint your day on a 24-hour dial — pick a category, drag across the hours, and a full day is logged in about ten seconds. Then see whether the time went where you meant it to.
Free, open source, and no account. By default it makes no network requests at all: your data stays in your browser.
Install from the Chrome Web Store Install for Firefox Try it here first
No install needed to try it — the demo below is the real extension, running in this page, keeping its data in your browser and nowhere else.
Taking the day back
Daily Dial’s job is to show you where your time went. It deliberately stops there — it does not block, enforce, or nag, because plenty of tools already do that part well and do it better than a time logger could.
These guides are the handoff. Each one is about a pattern the dial can show you, and what people actually do about it. Nothing here is affiliated with Daily Dial, and nothing is sponsored.
- Make your phone boring — the accessibility and Screen Time features already on your iPhone or Android that make the device less compelling, set up step by step.
- Block sites during the hours you want to work — SelfControl, Cold Turkey, Freedom, and why an all-day block gets switched off by lunchtime.
- Protect your best hour — finding your most productive hour in your own data, then defending it.
- Rest that actually happens — break timers, and the difference between rest you intended and rest you took.
More
- Try it in your browser — the real thing, no install
- A look inside — what the app actually looks like
- Why it works this way — a dial instead of a form, and what that costs
- FAQ — the score, missed days, offline use, what it refuses to do
- Privacy — what it stores, and the one thing that ever leaves your device
- Languages — ten of them, and none of your own words touched
- What’s new — every release
The honest limits
- Reminders only fire while Chrome is running.
- Data is per browser profile; there is no sync unless you turn on the optional Google Drive backup.
- The dial has 15-minute resolution.