Understand estimates in Focus history

Daylume saves the task estimate that exists when every task-linked Focus session begins, on both Free and Plus. The existing Plus insights can compare focused time with that saved estimate.

Later task edits do not rewrite finished sessions

Suppose a task is estimated at 30 minutes when you start Focus. If you later revise the task to 120 minutes, that finished session keeps the original 30-minute context. New sessions use the estimate present when they begin.

This keeps past focused time attached to what you knew when you started the session. It does not turn an updated estimate into a more favourable account of an earlier session.

When no estimate appears

Focus history shows focused time without an estimate when:

• the session began without a linked task;
• the linked task had no estimate when Focus began;
• the session was recorded before Daylume began saving estimates at session start; or
• the sessions grouped for a task do not all have the same saved estimate.

Older sessions are intentionally left blank. Daylume did not store their original estimate, so it cannot recover that value honestly. It does not substitute the task’s current estimate or guess what the earlier value may have been.

Changing or deleting a task later never replaces a stored snapshot with a live value. If the history view cannot justify one estimate for the sessions it combines, it leaves the estimate out.