Briefing History & Archive
Briefing History & Archive
Available from v0.1.14
Focus Engine now stores every daily briefing you generate, giving you a permanent record of how you planned each day. You can look back at any past briefing from a calendar picker and, over time, compare what you intended to do against what actually got done.
How It Works
When your daily briefing is generated, Focus Engine saves a complete snapshot of it to the database. The snapshot includes all briefing data — your schedule, due items, in-progress work, email triage results, and focus recommendations — exactly as they appeared at the time of generation.
Each stored briefing is tied to:
- Your user account — briefings are private and user-scoped
- The calendar date — one briefing record per day per user
Viewing Past Briefings
- Open the Briefing section of Focus Engine.
- Use the calendar picker to select any past date.
- The briefing generated for that date will be displayed, including all tasks, priorities, and recommendations that were surfaced that morning.
Past briefings are read-only. They reflect the state of your integrations at the moment the briefing was originally generated — they will not update retroactively if tasks or calendar events have since changed.
Retrospectives
The archive is the foundation for "plan vs. reality" retrospectives. By reviewing what Focus Engine recommended on a given day, you can assess:
- Which tasks were planned but not completed
- Whether estimated focus time matched actual availability
- How meeting load predictions held up across the week
Full retrospective reporting features are planned for a future release. For now, you can manually browse the archive to build your own picture of how your days have been going.
Data Storage
Briefing snapshots are stored in the briefings table in the Focus Engine database:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
date | The calendar date the briefing was generated for |
userId | The user the briefing belongs to |
| (JSON snapshot) | Full briefing payload as generated |
No integration data is re-fetched when you view a past briefing — the stored snapshot is self-contained.