Never Lose Track of a Day — Introducing Briefing History

Focus Engine v0.1.14

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From today, every daily briefing you generate is saved. That's the headline — but it's worth unpacking why it matters.

The Gap Between Plan and Reality

Focus Engine's job is to give you a clear, honest answer each morning: what matters today, and when will I do it? It synthesises your calendar, tasks, email, and code activity into a single, opinionated plan.

But until now, that plan evaporated the moment the day ended. There was no way to look back and ask the harder question: did I actually do what I planned?

That changes with v0.1.14.

What's New

Briefings Are Now Stored

Every time a daily briefing is generated, Focus Engine saves a complete snapshot of it — your schedule, due items, in-progress work, email triage, and focus recommendations — all frozen at the moment of generation.

These snapshots live in the briefings table, scoped to your account and indexed by date. One record per day. Nothing is recalculated after the fact; what you saw that morning is exactly what you see when you look back.

Browse Any Past Date

A new calendar picker lets you navigate to any previous date and view the briefing that was generated for it. It's a simple, direct way to answer: what was I planning to do on Tuesday last week?

The Foundation for Retrospectives

This release is deliberately focused on storage and retrieval — getting the data right before building views on top of it. But the intent is clear: briefing history is the prerequisite for "plan vs. reality" retrospectives.

In a future release, you'll be able to see — in aggregate — which tasks got planned but not completed, how well meeting load estimates matched reality, and where your focus time actually went. The data collection starts today.

How to Use It

1. Open the Briefing section and find the calendar picker.
2. Select any past date where a briefing was generated.
3. Review the snapshot — everything that was surfaced to you that morning.

Past briefings are read-only. They're a record of intent, not a live view.

Why This Matters

Planning without feedback is guesswork. The best daily planning systems aren't just about what to do today — they help you get better at planning over time. Briefing history gives you the raw material to notice patterns: the kinds of tasks that always slip, the days where your meeting load was systematically underestimated, the work that kept getting deferred.

We're building toward a Focus Engine that doesn't just help you plan each morning — it helps you plan more accurately because it remembers every morning that came before.

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v0.1.14 is available now. Update your instance to start building your briefing archive.