How 10MB works

01 The big idea

A day in 10MB is a grid: 24 hours, six blocks an hour, 144 blocks in all. Each block is ten minutes, short enough to be accurate and long enough to be worth logging. Instead of guessing where your time went, you paint each block with what you were doing.

Ten minutes is a unit you can feel. Six focus blocks is an hour of real work, and three meal blocks is a slow lunch. By the end of the day the grid is a picture of how you spent it, filled in quickly with no stopwatch or timers running.

02 Paint your day

Painting is the core loop, and it's meant to take seconds. Pick a category (your brush), then drop it onto the blocks you spent that way.

1. Pick a brush

   In the category panel, click the category you want to log, like Focus, Work, or Move. The selected brush shows at the top of the panel.

2. Click or drag across blocks

   Click any block to fill it. Press and drag to paint a whole run at once, which is handy for a long stretch of sleep or a deep-work afternoon.

3. Fix mistakes with the eraser

   Switch the brush to Clear and paint over anything you want to reset. Blocks you haven't touched stay empty and show their start time.

03 Set up your categories

Categories are how time gets grouped. 10MB ships with a starter set, and each one carries a color and a single-letter key so it's quick to recognize and quick to paint.

Make them yours

Add a category with the New category button, name it, and pick a color from the palette. 10MB assigns a free letter automatically. Renamed your priorities for the season? Archive a category to retire it from the brush list without losing its history. Archived categories keep every block you ever painted with them.

04 Score & note the day

Painting tells you what you did. The day score tells you how it felt. When you wrap a day, give it one number from 0 to 100 and, if you like, a short note.

The number is a gut call. There's no formula behind it. Over weeks those scores line up next to your blocks, and patterns surface: what a good day looks like, and the categories that drag a score down. The note is a gift to future you.

05 Keyboard shortcuts

Painting is fastest from the keyboard. Tap a category's letter to load it as the brush, then click or drag on the grid.

06 See what it adds up to

A single painted day is satisfying. A month of them is where 10MB earns its keep. Once you've logged a few days, the dashboard totals your time by category, charts the trend, and surfaces patterns you'd never spot block by block, with no setup.

07 Wrapped, for any period

Whenever you want to step back, 10MB packages your time into a recap of the wins, the streaks, and the focus leaks worth fixing. Generate it for any week, month, or year.

08 Stay accountable

Set targets for what matters to you, like deep focus, movement or rest, and 10MB measures each day against the goals you chose. Every logged day adds a link to the chain; the longer it runs, the harder it is to break.

And because tracking only works if you do it, you can schedule your own reminders (hourly during work, once at night, or anything in between) so logging never slips.

09 Reflect: chat with your time

Sometimes you want an answer instead of a chart. Ask 10MB a plain-language question and it answers from your own blocks, with no dashboards to navigate or filters to set.

10 Everywhere you are

Your blocks sync across your devices, so accountability doesn't take a break when you switch screens.

Web app

Available now, and the big-screen home for analysis and reflection. Everything syncs the moment you log it. It also installs to your phone's home screen and works on any device.

iOS & Android

Native apps, with home-screen widgets and quick logging, are on the roadmap. Until they ship, the installable web app covers mobile.

Yours to take

Export your full history to open CSV and JSON files anytime, and delete it for good whenever you like. You're never locked in. See our data promise.