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Reflect On Your Screen Time

Logit can import your phone's own daily screen-time total as a private Screen Time event, so the number arrives on its own and the journal asks what it meant. Learn what is imported, what never leaves your phone, and how to log it by hand.

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• On Android, open Self → Settings → Screen time and review exactly what Logit will import before you connect. On iPhone, log the number by hand with the Screen time template until Screen Time access ships.

Your phone already counts how long you looked at it. Logit can bring that one number into your private journal each day as a Screen Time event, so you can notice it, decide how it sits with you, and choose one small change, or none at all. A balanced life is a healthy life, and the hours on a screen are part of the picture worth seeing honestly.

Read this first: the import is being rolled out, and it is private by default. Nothing about your screen time is shared with anyone. It stays in your own journal unless you deliberately share an entry later.

🎯 Use This When

• You want to know where the evening went without guessing.
• You are trying a screen-time change and want a record of how it is going.
• You would rather reflect on a real number than on a feeling about it.

🔒 What Stays Private

• Only totals cross from your phone to Logit: the day's total, pickups when the phone reports them, and whether the day has finished.
• Logit never imports which apps you used, the websites you visited, or anything you typed. That breakdown stays on your phone.
• The Screen Time event is private unless you share it yourself, and sharing always shows who will see it first.

✅ One Thing To Do Now

On Android, open Self → Settings → Screen time, read what will be imported, and connect. On iPhone, open Settings → Screen Time, read today's total, and log it with the Screen time template.

📍 Where This Stands Today

🔁 How A Day Becomes A Reflection

In short: your phone measures the day, Logit files one private event with the total, and the journal offers three short prompts you can answer or skip.

📥 What Logit Imports

For each day, one private event with:

• Total screen time for that day, in your phone's own time zone.
• Pickups, when the phone reports them.
• Whether the day is finished. Today's event reads "Screen time so far" and keeps updating until the day ends.

That is the whole list. Neither iPhone nor Android reports a daily notification count to Logit today.

🧭 What The Number Does Not Do

• It adds no minutes to any Life Ring. The event sits in your Reflect ring, because noticing the number is a reflection, but time on your phone is not time you invested, so the hours never count toward the week's totals even though the title names them.
• It is not a score. There is no target or streak, and the only comparison is with your own recent past (see below). The event is a fact you can reflect on.
• It does not change your life areas. You choose which life area the imported days are filed under (Fun & recreation by default), and you can move any single event afterwards.

📏 Your Own Usual, Not A Target

Once Logit holds at least seven complete imported days from the last four weeks, each new day is shown next to your own usual: the middle value of those days. The Screen time page says it plainly — "about an hour above your usual", "about 45 minutes below your usual", or "close to your usual" when the day is within fifteen minutes — and the follow-up card under an imported day opens with the same line ("Today sits about an hour above your usual."). Your weekly and monthly retrospectives add one calm sentence for the window ("Screen time averaged 3h 10m across 6 days, lowest on Wednesday (1h 50m), highest on Sunday (4h 30m).") and, when you have the history, "Your usual over the previous four weeks was about 2h 50m.", alongside anything you wrote in the Screen time reflection prompts that week.

The usual is yours alone and moves with you. It is not a limit, a goal, or a score, nothing turns red, and no one else sees it. It exists so the number has a reference point when you reflect, not so the day can be graded.

🔌 How To Connect (Android)

1. Open Self → Settings → Screen time, then Connect screen time.
2. Android opens its Usage access setting. Turn it on for Logit and come back; Logit checks the permission again as soon as you return.
3. Logit imports the last 7 days (you can choose 1 to 30) and then keeps today's total current whenever you open Screen time, Settings, or return to the app. Sync now refreshes it immediately.

To stop, open the same screen and choose Disconnect. Your imported days and events stay unless you also tick Delete imported days and the events Logit created. Events you edited are yours and are never deleted by that choice.

If you replaced your phone. Open Self → Settings → Screen time on the new phone. A connection that is still live on your old one is listed there with Disconnect that phone, and the same Delete imported days choice, so you never need the old phone in your hand to close it or remove what it imported. On an iPhone, disconnecting also forgets the categories you chose, so the next connect asks for them again.

✍️ Reflecting On A Day

Under an imported day in your daily notebook, Logit offers Reflect on today's screen time. It opens the Screen time template with the number already filled in and three short prompts:

• What pulled you in? An app, a mood, a gap in the day, a habit.
• What would you rather have done with some of it?
• One small change for tomorrow?

Answer one or none. Tap Not now to dismiss the prompt for the day, or Don't prompt for screen time to stop the offer entirely; you can restore it from the same card. Once you reflect on a day, that event is yours and its imported numbers stop changing, so a finished day is the best one to reflect on.

If you're running the screen-time experiment goal. Start Review my screen-time experiment from the goal templates in Act and the import does the first step for you: once three finished days have arrived, *Measure current usage* is marked done with the newest day's Screen Time event as its evidence. The same follow-up card also shows Possible Act matches: the goal itself and any of its open steps, such as *Compare usage at the end of the month*, each behind a confirmation. Nothing is completed or linked until you confirm, no second journal event is created, and the matches stay available after you have written your reflection. Other goals, habits, and your Life Rings are never touched by an imported day.

🖊️ Logging It By Hand

Anyone can use the Screen time template without connecting anything: open your journal, choose Screen time from the template picker, and type the total from your phone's own summary (Settings → Screen Time on iPhone; Settings → Digital Wellbeing on Android). The same prompts and the same privacy apply.

🗂️ Your Data, Your Controls

• Imported days and their events are part of your journal export.
• Disconnecting with Delete imported days removes the imported facts and every unedited event the importer created.
• Deleting your account removes the connection and every imported day.

➡️ Where To Go Next

• Turn a pattern you notice into one small step with From A Feeling To A Next Step.
• See the day the number sits inside in The Daily Life Wheel Notebook.

🌿 Why This Matters

A number you did not have to type is easier to be honest with. Seeing the hours without a score attached lets you decide what they mean, and a single small change chosen calmly lasts longer than a resolution made in frustration.

🧠 Related Concepts

• What Is Balance?
• Why Reflection Matters
• Memory And Meaning

🧭 Related Areas

• Self, the home base where connections and settings live.
• Reflect, where the Screen Time event is read and reflected on.

⭕ Related Life Rings

An imported Screen Time event belongs to Reflect without adding minutes to it. Reflecting on it, in your own words, is ordinary journaling and counts the way any reflection does. See Understanding Balance.

🛠️ Related Features

• Connect Exercise Data Privately, the other device import, built on the same private-by-default rules.
• Connect Google Calendar Privately
• Privacy And Data

📚 Continue Learning

• Deepen the why: Why Reflection Matters.
• Understand the ring model the number stays outside of: Understanding Balance.
• Take the next action: Tasks, Habits, And Goals for a screen-time experiment with a review date.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does Logit see which apps I use? No. Only the day's total, pickups when reported, and whether the day is finished reach Logit. App names, categories, and websites stay on your phone.

Why is today's event called "Screen time so far"? The day is still open, so the total keeps growing. Once your phone reports the day complete, the title drops "so far".

Will my screen time make a Life Ring look busier? No. The event is filed under Reflect, but imported screen time adds no minutes to any ring's totals.

Can an imported day complete one of my goals? Only the *Measure current usage* step of the Review my screen-time experiment goal, and only once three finished days have been imported; it links the day's own event as evidence. Every other step of that goal is offered on the day's follow-up card for you to confirm, and no other goal or habit is ever completed by an import.

Can I use this on iPhone yet? Not automatically. Apple must approve Screen Time access for Logit first. Until then, read today's total in Settings → Screen Time and log it with the Screen time template.

Can I ask Loggy about my screen time? Yes. Ask "How was my screen time this week?", "How much time did I spend on my phone yesterday?", or "How many times did I pick up my phone today?" and Loggy reads the imported days, gives you a short summary and a day-by-day table, and links each day's private Screen time event so you can reflect on it. It reports the numbers as they are, never as a score. If nothing is connected yet, it tells you where to connect or how to log the number by hand.

What happens if I turn off Usage access later? Logit stops importing and shows the connection as needing attention. Your history, settings, and the option to disconnect or delete stay available.

If I disconnect, do I lose my entries? No. Disconnecting keeps everything unless you also choose to delete the imported days. Events you edited are yours either way.