Brief quietly tracks where your attention actually went, then hands you a short, honest report in a new tab each morning. No timers to start. No dashboard to check.
A heads-down morning — 3h 12m of focused time before lunch, mostly in the editor, with a long afternoon drift into research tabs.
No buttons to press, no projects to tag. Brief watches the tabs you actually use and does the bookkeeping itself.
You install it once. After that, the only thing you do is read.
A background service worker notes when you switch tabs and how long each one held your focus. Nothing is uploaded; the intervals stay in local storage.
At the day boundary, Brief bundles the day's intervals, sends that compact summary to its backend, and a model writes it up into a readable brief.
The first time you open the browser the next day, yesterday's brief opens in a fresh tab — focused time, top sites, context switches, and a short read.
Every time-tracker I tried wanted me to do something — start a timer, tag a project, open a dashboard. The tracking became its own chore, and I'd quietly stop.
Brief is the opposite bet. It asks for nothing during the day and gives you one honest paragraph the next morning. You glance at it the way you'd glance at the weather, and get on with things.
Install once and forget it's there. The first report shows up the next morning.