The desktop tracker creates the evidence behind your timesheet. It records your hours, screenshot captures and upload status — and only while your shift is active.
Starting tracked work
What gets recorded
What is captured depends on your client’s monitoring policy, which the app names in plain words under Capturing:
- Screens + activity — periodic screenshots, the websites you visit, the apps you use, and an activity level.
- Activity only — the same minus the screenshots.
- Off — no monitoring for that assignment.
Screenshots are taken on a cadence your client’s policy sets, within a 5-to-15-minute band. Websites are recorded as the domain only and apps by name only — never the window title, never the exact page, and never your keystrokes or clicks. The Activity figure is derived from how long your mouse and keyboard sit idle, nothing more.
The timer also shows Clock-in time, Last capture, and the Upload queue. If you are offline, captures stay in the local queue and upload later on their own — you cannot clock in while offline.
What blocks tracking
Tracking stops or refuses to start when screen-recording permission is missing, when the computer is offline, when you have not accepted the current consent notice, or when you hit your weekly hour limit — at the limit the app clocks you out automatically and says so. Long stretches with no mouse or keyboard also pause the shift for inactivity; clock back in when you are ready.
If the app cannot keep a valid device session, link the computer again — see linking your computer. If you think a computer was unlinked without your doing it, tell Anastasis before doing more billable work on it.