Tracks and life areas

Most productivity tools stop at "project". FocusAnalyze adds two levels above it, because "how much of my time went to work this month?" is a question projects alone can't answer.

Life areas

The broad divisions of your life: Work, Health, Family, a side business. There are usually few of them and they change rarely.

Life areas are the unit that makes time reporting meaningful. A month where work took 85% of your tracked time is a fact about your life, not about a project.

Tracks

Ongoing streams of work inside a life area — "Platform", "Hiring", "Marathon training". A track outlives any individual project and gives continuity to work that never really finishes.

Projects

The concrete containers tasks live in. A project belongs to one track.

Do you need all three?

No. One life area and one track is a fine starting configuration, and plenty of people never grow past it. The levels start paying off when you're genuinely splitting attention — a job plus a side project, or work plus a serious non-work commitment — and you want reporting that can tell them apart.

Where they show up

• Reports — time-by-project rolls up to track and life area.
• Capacity — you can reason about how much of your budget a life area is allowed.
• FocusAI — asking "am I spending enough time on health?" is answerable because the

hierarchy exists.