Data usage
Timeslicer Data Usage
A quick guide to how Timeslicer protects your privacy, and what we do with your data.
Last verified 15 September 2026. The privacy policy is the binding document and governs if the two ever differ.
01 / Where things live
Your work stays on your computer
Your timeline is built and stored on your machine. Only two small things ever leave it, and neither one is your history.
Your computer
Everything below stays herePlain SQLite and JSONL files in your app data folder. You can open them, export them and delete them without asking us.
Timeslicer servers
All we receive
- •Your account, blocklists and preferences, so they follow you between devices.
- •Your timeline is never synced to us.
- •If the daily recap email is on, that day's task names pass through to send it, then they are cleared.
Model providers
All they do
OpenAI
Names your tasks
Google Gemini
Sorts a page into focus or distraction
- •They send back a short label and nothing else.
- •They keep no copy of it to train on.
02 / What it reads
What Timeslicer reads
Six things, and one it never touches. Three are on when you install it. Three are off until you turn them on.
App and window titles
The name of the app you are in and the title of its window.
Page titles and URLs
From the browser extension, for the tab you are actively looking at.
Page text
Up to 500 characters, scrubbed for emails, card numbers and ID numbers before it leaves the tab.
AI coding assistant transcripts
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and others. Your prompts become part of what gets labeled. Keys, tokens and credentials are stripped first. Turn it off in Settings, System.
Text inside desktop apps
Slack, Discord, Notion, Obsidian and a few others. Needs the Accessibility permission.
Window snapshots
One still image of the front window, read on your device, image discarded immediately. Needs the Screen Recording permission.
Keystrokes
Timeslicer has no key capture of any kind, on any setting.
Sensitive sites are excluded before anything is captured. Government, health, payment and sign-in domains are on that list by default, and you can add any site to it. Their text is never stored on your device and never sent anywhere.
03 / Verify
Verify local storage yourself
Your history sits on your disk in formats you already know. Four commands, about five minutes. Paths shown for macOS.
sqlite3 -readonly \
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/timeslicer/task-events.sqlite" \
"select occurred_at, title, surfaces
from task_events order by occurred_at desc limit 20;"→Plain SQLite. No key, no password. This is your entire history, on your machine.
tail -n 3 \
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/timeslicer/logs/task-spans.jsonl" \
| python3 -m json.tool→The surface_text field is the literal text that would be sent for labeling. Nothing is hidden from you that is shown to us.
grep '"evt":"infer_call"' \
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/timeslicer/logs/task-inference.jsonl" \
| wc -l→Every outbound labeling call is logged locally with its time and token counts. Nothing labels your day without leaving a line here.
# note the number, pause from the tray, wait, run it again
wc -l "$HOME/Library/Application Support/timeslicer/logs/task-spans.jsonl"→The number stops moving. While paused, nothing is recorded at all.
On Windows these files live in %APPDATA%\timeslicer.
04 / Teams
If your company uses Timeslicer
Team sharing does not change where your data lives. It adds one encrypted relay of a daily summary, and nobody in the middle can read it.
Your computer
Locks the day's summary with your team's key before anything is sent.
Timeslicer servers
Pass the locked bundle along and delete it after 30 days. We hold no key and cannot read a word of it.
Your manager
Holds the only key. Their app unlocks the summary and keeps it on their own computer.
No manager access without permission
- •You enter the invite code yourself. No manager, no admin and nobody at Timeslicer can add you.
- •You preview exactly what gets shared before you agree to anything.
- •Leaving is one click, and it clears anything still waiting on our servers.
- •Never join a team, and Timeslicer stays a solo, private tool.
05 / On a team
What your manager can and cannot see
A short daily summary of your work, and nothing underneath it.
Your manager sees
- Task names
- A written summary of each block
- App and site names
- Page titles and full URLs
- When each block started and ended
- How much of it was active time
Your manager cannot see
- Screenshots, ever
- The raw text on your screen
- Anything older than the last 7 days
- Any day before you joined
- Days under 30 active minutes
- Whatever you are working on right now
06 / Questions
Still not sure? Ask us.
If something here does not add up, or your security team wants to go deeper, we are happy to walk through any of it with you.
Last verified 15 September 2026. This page summarizes the Timeslicer Privacy Policy, which governs if the two ever differ. For the longer written version, read what Timeslicer does with your data.