Habits
Recording & your data
Pause, resume, and check recording from the home screen, and clear your local recording data or wipe everything.
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Plainwork records what you do so it can spot repeatable tasks. Everything it captures stays on your device. See Suggested habits for how detection works. You control that recording from two places.
The recording menu
Open it from the status pill in the top-right of the home screen. It shows a coloured dot and a label (Recording, Paused, Starting, or Error) and, when open, when the current session started and how much time it has tracked today.
- Pause / Resume recording: Stop or restart capture. While paused, nothing new is recorded.
- Recording since: When the current recording session began.
- Wipe last hour: Forget the most recent hour of captured activity. Click it, then confirm. Useful right after something private you'd rather Plainwork not keep.
Clearing your data in Settings
In Settings → General, the Data section has two controls. Both ask you to confirm, and both act only on this device.
- Remove all recording data: Deletes all captured activity and detected patterns, and clears Plainwork's local capture buffer. Your habits are kept. Recording restarts fresh afterwards.
- Remove everything: Deletes all recording data and every habit, including habits you taught. Removed habits are archived so they don't sync back. Your account and preferences stay untouched.
Both are permanent and can't be undone.