A free deep work tracker that counts your deep hours by week as tally marks, with no daily streak to break.
5.0(1 rating)Plan a deep work session in 60 seconds, work in the dive until the bell, then close the day with a shutdown ritual. Your deep hours add up by week.
Deep hours by week, your year, and what your sessions show.
Your daily ceiling: 60 deep minutes (0 steps earned)
This week: 0 of the 4 days needed for the next 15 minutes.Your tally card
Your year
What your sessions show
Your sessions
This free deep work tracker counts your deep work hours by week, the way Cal Newport kept score.
Every session you run in the deep work timer lands here as a tally mark, with a circle for each milestone you ship. There's no daily streak to break.
Here's why you track deep hours, how the tracker works, and what the patterns tell you.
What is a deep work tracker?
A deep work tracker records how many hours of focused, distraction-free work you do. Newport tracked his on a card by his monitor, with a row per week and a tick per hour.
It's the "compelling scoreboard" from The 4 Disciplines of Execution, which Newport adapts in Deep Work.
Why track hours and not tasks?
In the 4 Disciplines, a lead measure is something you control that drives the result. Newport picked deep hours as his.
Tasks done is a lag measure: it tells you what happened, too late to change it. Hours are the part you can change this week.
What the tracker shows
| Part | What it shows |
|---|---|
| This week | Deep hours, sessions, deliverables shipped, urges let pass |
| The tally card | 8 weeks of tally marks, and a circle for each milestone |
| Your year | A heatmap of every day with deep work |
| Patterns | After 10 sessions: your best time of day, block length and more |
| Your ceiling | Today's deep work limit, and how close you are to the next step |
Why there are no streaks
A daily streak punishes the 1 day that was full of meetings. Weekly hours don't.
Slow Productivity makes the same case: work at a natural pace you can keep, not in bursts that burn you out.
Your data stays yours
Everything is saved in this browser. Download a backup file to move it to another device, and open it there.
You can also copy deep-work.md, a summary your own AI can read before it helps you plan.
Final thoughts on tracking deep work
What you count is what grows. Count deep hours by week, and let the rest follow.
Run a session in the timer, and your first tally mark appears here.
Plan your deep work with your AI
Run the Deep Work OS prompts in
Deep work tracker FAQs
Questions about the deep work tracker? Here's what to know.
A deep work tracker records how many hours of focused, distraction-free work you do.
This one counts them by week as tally marks, the way Cal Newport kept score.
Deep hours are a lead measure: you control them, and they drive the results.
Tasks done only tell you what already happened.
No, the deep work tracker counts hours by week, so 1 day full of meetings doesn't reset anything.
A steady pace beats a streak you break.
Every session you run in the deep work timer is added when you surface.
You rate it in 2 taps, and it lands on your tally card and your year.
Yes, download a backup file and open it in the tracker on the other device.
Sessions from both are joined, with nothing counted twice.
Yes, every session stays in this browser.
Nothing is sent anywhere unless you ask the AI for help, and then only that plan's words.
No, this tool isn't affiliated with Cal Newport.
It's built on the ideas in his books Deep Work and Slow Productivity, credited on the page and written in our own words.
The deep work timer, the shutdown ritual and the brown noise generator work with the tracker.
All the free tools are on navid.me/free-tools.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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