AI Suggestions
Chronoid can automatically suggest which project or category your tracked activity belongs to, so you spend less time manually categorizing. The suggestion engine runs in the background, learns from your recent activity, and lets you review, accept, or reject every suggestion before anything is applied.
Before You Start
- Open Settings → AI and enable AI suggestions.
- Pick the provider and model that should power suggestions. This is separate from the model used by the AI Assistant.
- If you have not configured a provider yet, start with AI Providers.
You can still use AI Suggestions without any provider configured. In that case Chronoid falls back to the built-in on-device FastText classifier described later in this guide.
How Suggestions Work
Chronoid scans uncategorized activity in the background roughly every five minutes and suggests a project or category for each item.
Each suggestion includes:
- a target project or category
- a confidence score from low to high
- the signal that drove the suggestion
Suggestions are context-aware. The engine looks at your current work session and recent patterns, including roughly the last two hours of activity and your recent categorization decisions. That means research on Reddit, YouTube, or a social site during a focused work session can still be recognized as productive instead of being dismissed as a distraction.
Reviewing Suggestions
Pending suggestions live in the dedicated suggestions view.
You can:
- filter by confidence: All, High, Medium, or Low
- search suggestions by app, domain, or project name
- select one or many suggestions at once
- accept or reject individually
- batch accept or reject the current selection
Accepted suggestions apply the project or category assignment to the matching activity. Rejected suggestions are dismissed and help the engine avoid repeating the same call.
A typical review pass looks like this:
- Open the suggestions view.
- Start with the High confidence filter to lock in the safest calls first.
- Use search to focus on a specific app or project.
- Multi-select the rows you agree with and accept them together.
- Drop to Medium or Low to review anything ambiguous.
Auto-Accept
If you trust high-confidence suggestions, you can let Chronoid apply them for you.
- Open Settings → AI.
- Make sure AI suggestions is on.
- Set an Auto-accept threshold.
Suggestions at or above the threshold are applied automatically. Suggestions below the threshold still show up in the review view so you stay in control of edge cases.
AI Title And Time-Entry Suggestions
Beyond categorization, Chronoid uses AI to help describe and split your sessions.
- Title and notes generation: Chronoid can generate descriptive titles and notes for activity sessions, scoring signals for work, personal, and mixed activity so the description reflects how a block of time was actually spent.
- Manual time-entry suggestions: On the timeline, Chronoid suggests manual time entries split by gaps, distractions, context switches, and intent switches. Accept or dismiss each suggestion inline, or use Accept all to apply the full set at once.
Domain Classification
A separate background classifier handles uncategorized website domains. It runs in batches so browsing activity is sorted into projects or categories without adding latency to your main tracking pipeline. Domains that already match a rule or a known assignment are skipped.
Offline Fallback
When no LLM provider is configured, or a provider is unavailable, Chronoid can fall back to a built-in on-device FastText classifier. This keeps suggestions working offline and without any API keys, although the on-device model is typically less nuanced than a full provider-backed model.
To rely on the fallback only, leave providers disabled under Settings → AI. To get the strongest results, enable a provider and pick a model for suggestions.
Privacy Notes
Suggestions run through the provider and model you selected. The data needed to classify an activity, such as app names, domains, or window titles, may be sent to that provider.
If privacy is your top priority:
- use a local provider such as Ollama or LM Studio
- review AI Providers before enabling cloud services
- rely on the FastText fallback, which is fully on-device and never leaves your Mac
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For help, email support@chronoid.app