Comparing workweeks: check which days are included
On Monday afternoon this week will naturally look smaller than the whole of last week. Hina compares a week in progress with the same number of days from last week, and it says nothing when the earlier week cannot support a comparison.
Why a half day should not meet a full day
The Week tab shows Monday through Sunday, and each day runs from 04:00 to 04:00, so Sunday night work stays with Sunday. In the middle of a week, today is still unfinished and the days after it are empty. Set that against a full last week and every number looks like a decline, even if you worked at your usual pace.
Hina narrows the gap. For a week in progress, it compares only as many days as have begun this week, Monday through today, with the same days of last week. Today still counts while it runs, so early in the day the comparison can lean low, and the sentence about more or less deep work than last week in the summary that appears when you hover the figures at the top of the page follows the same days.
What makes two days comparable
If the earlier week cannot be read at all, the Versus last week card says that the previous week's records could not be read, and no comparison is shown.
The Versus last week card, which lists how each activity category changed, needs at least two days with ten minutes or more of recorded activity in the earlier week. When it cannot be drawn, the space shows Days worth remembering instead. The sentence about deep work in the summary needs the earlier week to contain at least ten minutes of deep work and a difference of at least half an hour. In your first week with Hina there is no earlier week, so there is nothing to compare, and Hina does not treat an empty week as a baseline.
Reading the rhythm observations
The Golden hours card names the start hour that holds the most deep work in the week. It adds a suggestion to plan important work then only when deep work began in that hour on at least three days, and with fewer days it only states the hour. On the Interruptions card, an interruption is a break shorter than five minutes in the middle of work, and waiting on an AI and coming back does not count.
Deep work here means stretches of work-category activity, including moves between projects. It does not measure flow or results. Read it as a description of activity and never as a grade.
Check recording before you trust a trend
A quieter week is not always a lighter week. If Hina was paused for two days, the Mac slept through a trip, or a permission was missing, the totals fall for reasons unrelated to your work. Open Settings from the logo menu and look at Recording health on the General tab before you read anything into a drop. The trend chart on the Day tab also dashes the line into today because the day is still in progress.
Comparisons describe recorded time against recorded time. They do not describe work lost on a partly captured day, and away intervals do not prove rest. If the cause of a difference is obvious, such as a conference, a week of travel or a public holiday, note it beside the numbers and move on.
Try one change and compare similar days
Look for when your longer stretches tend to happen and which projects are broken into short pieces. The Golden hours card shows the hours where deep work started, and Deep work by weekday on the Month tab shows which days carry it. Compare those with your calendar before deciding why. One unusual day should not become next week's rule.
Then choose a single change. If chat messages cut up your mornings, try one fixed time for checking them. If a project keeps sending you hunting for the same references, collect the entry points first. After a week or two, return to similar days and see whether the same observation appears. The goal is a routine that suits you, not an extra hour every week. If you want to keep a record of the week you started from, running Hina --weekly in a terminal prints seven days of material ending on a date you choose, so you can paste it into your notes before the next week begins.