About ScreenJournal

Updated on 14 September 2026

ScreenJournal is a next generation alternative to time tracking and employee monitoring. Instead of counting hours or storing screenshots, it reads the real work happening on screen, builds a detailed timeline of each workday, and, by default, discards the footage. Timelines accumulate into a chronicle: a searchable history of the work itself, where an employee can find how they solved a problem last quarter and a colleague can learn how another team gets things done, just by asking. From the same record ScreenJournal computes timesheets, builds reports and drafts standup summaries on request. It is built privacy-first. Apps and sites on the privacy exclusion list are never captured, PII is removed during processing, and employees can redact anything when the organisation allows it.

Why does ScreenJournal exist?

ScreenJournal exists because work visibility tools have historically forced a trade between insight and trust. Screenshot trackers typically store periodic captures, surveillance suites typically record screens continuously, and activity analytics score how busy the apps looked. All three hand a manager proxies to interpret, and two of the three build an archive of employees' screens.

ScreenJournal is a fourth kind of tool. It reads the work itself, stores no footage by default (a manager can opt in to Evidence Mode to keep video evidence, stored for up to 3 months), and keeps a searchable derived history. Managers get answers about real output instead of evidence to review, and employees get privacy plus something monitoring never gave them: their own work history, searchable.

Who is ScreenJournal for?

Any industry where work happens on a computer. It suits managers of remote, hybrid, offshore and BPO teams who need accurate timesheets and operational truth without micromanaging, and it suits employees who want their real output recognised and their work history searchable.

BPOs and call centres, offshore teams, agencies and engineering teams get the most immediate value, but the segments are examples, not limits.

How does ScreenJournal treat employee privacy?

As a design constraint, not a settings page. Apps and sites on the organisation's privacy exclusion list, such as banking, payroll, HR and health, are never captured. PII is removed during processing. Employees see the same activity view managers do, can redact anything on their timeline when the organisation allows it, and see exactly the score their manager sees. A redacted entry is erased entirely and never appears in anyone's search; who may redact is a permission the organisation's administrators grant, and nobody has it until they do.

Nudges are off until an admin writes an alert rule, and the only segments redaction cannot remove are ones already kept as evidence for an alert. The full privacy design is on the work timelines page, and the honest comparison with tools that do store footage is on ScreenJournal vs the alternatives.

For the full entity story, start with What is ScreenJournal or the ScreenJournal FAQ.