Trends
If you’re going to plan,
see what actually happened.
Most planners stop at the schedule. Axis collects feedback on every block — outcome, energy, what got worked on — and turns it into 21 widgets across plan-vs-actual, divergence detection, energy patterns, ritual health, and goal effort. Customizable, range-aware, goal-filterable.
The case for measurement
Plans are hypotheses. Behavior is signal.
Most productivity tools end at the schedule. The trends dashboard exists because the schedule is the question, not the answer. The question is whether the plan survives contact with reality — and where it breaks.
Axis captures session feedback in two dimensions on every block (outcome and energy), tracks every lifecycle event (cancellations, swaps, runs-long), and pipes all of it into a customizable dashboard. Drag widgets where you want them. Filter by goal. Set a global timeframe or a per-widget one. The point isn’t the chart — it’s the gap between intent and behavior, surfaced clearly.
Seven widgets worth highlighting
Most planners ship some version of an hours chart. These are the ones that don’t show up anywhere else.
01
Plan vs. Actual
Where the week went vs. where you said it would go.
Grouped bar chart of planned hours versus actual hours, broken out by domain. An overall adherence percentage. A “biggest gap” callout that surfaces the domain you most consistently underspend or overspend on. Read this once and you’ll see the gap you couldn’t see by looking at your calendar.
02
Day/Time Heatmap
When you’re actually productive — overlaid on when you said you would be.
A 7-day × 15-hour grid you can pivot across four metrics: productivity, energy, hours, distractions. Your chronotype’s peak window is overlaid on top, so the gap between when you scheduled deep work and when you actually had it shows up visually. The heatmap is one of the inputs to your behavioral patterns profile.
03
Divergence Detection
Patterns of plan/reality drift, named and counted.
Three named patterns surface from the lifecycle log: Repeated Cancel (the same kind of block keeps getting cancelled), Mode Drift (you said deep build, your blocks keep ending up as execution), and Time Creep (your meetings keep running long). Counts, examples, and a curated suggestion per pattern. This is the widget that catches the failures planning alone would miss.
04
Energy × Outcome
A composite quality score for the week, not just an hour count.
Two-dimensional session feedback collapses into a single 0–100 score plus a “green zone” percentage — sessions that were both productive and energizing. Trend direction callout when the composite is moving. A correction to the trap of measuring planning success in hours.
05
Rule Adherence
How well your week respected the rules you set for yourself.
Your weekly rules — windows you prefer, windows you avoid — are checked against the actual schedule. Weekly adherence percentages for PREFER and AVOID rules separately, plus a “most-broken” callout. If a rule keeps breaking, the rule is wrong or the week is — and either is useful to know.
06
Ritual Health
Are your transitions actually happening?
Startup and Shutdown completion rates plotted as lines from your daily check-ins. Overall rates plus consistency callouts. Rituals are the easiest thing to drop and the easiest thing to lie to yourself about — this widget keeps that honest.
07
AI Insights
3–5 written observations from the data, on demand.
A typed-insight card that surfaces patterns the dashboard doesn’t already chart: shifts across weeks, unusual combinations, things worth a closer look. Click-to-generate so the trends grid never auto-spends AI credits — you decide when an insight is worth it.
Full inventory
All 21 widgets.
Drag them where you want. Add or remove individually. Each one carries its own time range and a hover-info on the active window so the chart never lies about what it’s showing.
- KPI Strip — total hours, deep work, sessions, average duration, consistency, top goal
- Mode Composition — donut chart of how your time split across the 16 modes
- Hours by Mode — stacked bar over time
- Productivity Trends — line chart of session outcome over time
- Energy Trends — line chart of session energy over time
- Capacity — bar chart of weekly capacity vs. actual
- Day/Time Heatmap — 7×15 grid with 4 metric toggles + chronotype overlay
- Goal Progress — horizontal bars per goal, includes completed/inactive with logged hours
- Session Stats — 2×3 grid with sparklines + duration distribution
- Recovery Ratio — restorative vs. drain time over time
- Session Feedback Heatmap — 7-day grid colored by composite outcome × energy
- Hours by Domain — stacked area, work / personal / recovery toggles
- Distraction Trends — composed bar+line, weekly distraction minutes by type
- Activity Breakdown — top 10 activities by hours, mode-colored bars
- Goal Effort vs. Estimate — actual hours vs. effort estimate midpoint, pace sparklines
- Rule Adherence — PREFER / AVOID adherence + most-broken callout
- Plan vs. Actual — planned vs. actual hours by domain, adherence %
- Divergence — Repeated Cancel / Mode Drift / Time Creep patterns + suggestions
- Ritual Health — startup / shutdown completion rate lines
- Task Pipeline — completion rate, weekly velocity, capture funnel
- Energy × Outcome — composite quality score + green-zone % + trend
- AI Insights — 3–5 typed observations on demand
Customization
The dashboard is yours, not ours.
- Drag widgets to reorder. Resize to fit your screen. Add or remove individually.
- Global timeframe selector — switch every widget to the same range in one click.
- Per-widget timeframes when you need them. Hover the info icon to see the exact start–end window.
- Goal filter on the four widgets where it makes the most sense — Mode Composition, Hours by Mode, Productivity Trends, Energy Trends.
- Layout persists per-user. Bring it up on mobile, get the same dashboard.
Why this matters
Personal variance is the data we trust.
The research on chronotype, recovery timing, and deep-work ceilings is real — but the variance between people is wider than most studies acknowledge. A tool that locks in a single number from a single paper is going to be wrong for most of its users.
Trends is the surface that lets you see your variance. The Day/Time Heatmap shows your peak hours instead of the literature’s. Plan vs. Actual shows what your weeks actually looked like instead of what a default template assumed. Divergence detection names the patterns that are unique to you.
You start with what the research suggests. You end with what your behavior taught the system.
Plan a week. Then watch what your week tells you.
Trends is included on Axis AI and Axis AI Pro.