ScreenJournal user guides
ScreenJournal has two sides: the web dashboard, where owners, admins and managers review the team's activity, reports and settings — and the desktop app, the lightweight recorder each team member runs. These guides walk through both, page by page.
Getting Started
Create your ScreenJournal organisation, walk through the setup wizard, understand the roles, get your team installed, and set up your trial and billing.
The Desktop App
Install the ScreenJournal desktop app, sign in, grant permissions, and control tracking day to day: pausing, prompts, the inbox, and settings.
The Web Dashboard
A map of the ScreenJournal dashboard: what each sidebar page does, who can see what, and how time and productivity are measured everywhere.
Overview
The Overview page: team KPIs, work-time split, productivity bands, the attendance calendar, presence matrix, app usage, and the per-member breakdown.
Activity Timeline
The Activity page: one person's day segment by segment, the stats header, filters, evidence clips, score corrections, manual entries, and redaction.
Review
The Review page: one member's jiggler, fake-productivity, unproductive, neutral, locked, untracked, manual and corrected segments over any period, ready to correct, replay, redact or explain.
Audio
The Audio page: call and meeting recordings as a session list and transcript reader, with playback, month navigation, speaker filter, and search.
Ranking
The Ranking page: the weekly league table, the productivity-by-day chart, and the per-member drill-down with an AI summary and an inline timeline.
Chat
The Assistant chat panel: ask plain-language questions about activity, timesheets, reports, and alerts; export, history, alert replies, and bug reports.
Reports
The Reports page: build and download Excel workbooks for productivity, attendance, and app usage, with a live preview and column definitions.
Timesheet
The Timesheet page: tracked hours turned into pay per person per week or month, with pay settings, overtime, day and segment exclusions, and CSV export.
Alerts
Alerts end to end: the AI prompts that nudge members, the desktop bubble and inbox, the manager Inbox and Log, direct alerts, suppression rules, and notification settings.
People
The People page: members and roles, invitations and invite links, teams, reporting managers, setup and last-seen status, deactivation and removal.
Settings & Administration
Organisation settings (General, Working calendar, Desktop policy, Alert rules), Billing, and your personal Account settings.
Connecting AI Tools (MCP)
Query your team's work record from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-enabled assistant: connecting, checking the connection, permissions, and managing what's linked.
A note on recording and consent
Depending on your organisation's settings, the desktop app may record screens and meeting or call audio. Recording laws vary by country and region — ScreenJournal shows every member a consent notice before their desktop app is first authorised, and admins control exactly what is captured through the desktop policy. Make sure your own use complies with the laws that apply to your team.