How many hours did I actually work this week?
On the weekend you open Hina to work out how many hours you actually worked this week. What you notice first is often that the computer was on from early Monday until Friday night. That span from power-on to shutdown is long, and it does not line up with hours worked. Hina records apps, time spent, and input counts. Time spent thinking on paper or getting up to talk with someone never reaches the keyboard, so those stretches are empty in the record. Read the power-on span, the activity that was actually recorded, and usage after 10 p.m. separately. They are not combined into one hours-worked total.
Open to close only means the computer was awake
A week starts on Monday, and a day runs from 4 a.m. to 4 a.m. the next day. 1 a.m. on Monday still belongs to Sunday’s activity day. The new week begins only at 4 a.m. Monday. If you measure from the first time you opened the laptop on Monday to the last time you closed the lid on Friday, the long stretches from shutting down at night until turning it on again the next morning are included in that number. Nothing is recorded while the computer is off. Hina does not write that span down as hours worked. Hours when it was not running have no record either, and app time before and after cannot fill the gap.
What is recorded is time in each app, and input counts from the keyboard and trackpad. Seeing Xcode, Figma, or a client document in the browser can remind you what was open on the computer. Those clues answer what happened on the machine, not how many hours this week should count as work.
Active time still does not mean you were working
Activity on the Trail comes from time in apps and from keyboard and trackpad input counts. In a meeting the laptop may have Google Meet or Notes open for a long time with little input. Whether you were listening or already thinking about the next thing cannot be told from duration and input counts alone. Morning time in email and the calendar, replying to clients and changing meeting times, also goes into activity. Whether that counts as work you need to deliver this week is not visible in the record.
The other way around, drawing a page structure on paper, changing a section name at the whiteboard, or leaving your seat to go through a plan with a coworker means you are working. Hina usually has only an Away entry for that. Away means there was no new input during the stretch. It does not mean you were resting.
Look at time after 10 p.m. on its own
On the same day, usage actually recorded between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. the next day can be read on its own on the Trail, where each hour carries its own active time. You do not need to add it to the daytime total first. A day ends only at 4 a.m. the next day, so usage at 1 a.m. on Tuesday still belongs to Monday’s activity day. You can see which apps were open in those hours and how long each one stayed open. Hina does not count how many overtime hours you added.
Sometimes after 10 p.m. you are still editing an Xcode project, or revising the wording of a document in the browser, with input still on the keyboard. That stretch counts toward evening usage. Sometimes the computer was not closed and you had already left your seat. The later part of the Trail is Away. When you review Away, you can see when that stretch started and when it ended.
Do not compare today with Monday yet
When this week is not over, for example if you open Hina from the menu bar on Thursday afternoon, today is recorded only up to the moment you opened it. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are still empty. Distinguish today’s partial record from a full day that has finished; the Last 7 days chart draws the line to today dashed. If a daily report made today lists a difference from your usual fortnight, it covers only the part of today recorded so far. Monday has already run from 4 a.m. to 4 a.m. the next day, while Thursday is still going. You cannot conclude from that how much less you did today than on Monday.
If the week has already finished, each of the seven days is a complete day. You can add up the activity that was actually recorded and treat the total as the hours the computer kept a record of. How many working hours this week counts as is for you to decide after you read the Trail.